Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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Why the GOV.UK Design System team changed the input type for numbers
GOV.UK is changing the way they use "numeric" fields on websites, and the research that backs their decision is, as usual, excellent.
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Bypassing AppProtocol Prompts
The MS Edge team are working on a security feature relating to websites launching applications, and it's a great move.
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Dutch PM Mark Rutte Tells Public Not to Shake Hands Over Coronavirus and Then Shakes With Colleague
Remember not to shake hands with anybody! Umm... starting NOW, that one didn't count.
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There’s Really No Easy Way to Say 'I Was Stabbed'
Author Emma Berquist writes about her experience of the (extremely unusual) incident she was involved in, of being stabbed by a stranger in a park in Wellington.
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A Trip Through New York City in 1911
With the help of a neural network, this 1911 film brings to life scenes of New York from over a century ago.
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BingO Bakery
A fun retro-game style video from Microsoft giving a basic grounding in Web accessibility technologies.
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There is a car
Sayed A Tabatabai writes a very short story about a car abandoned in a hospital car park.
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An app can be a home-cooked meal
Author Robin Sloan tells the story of the app he wrote just for his family, and Dan reflects on his own experience of making apps for audiences of few (or one!).
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Jokes I've Told That My Male Colleagues Didn't Like
Humour tells you where the trouble is. Don't be offended! It's only a joke! ;-)
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Where Do New Viruses Come From?
Watch a 10-minute primer on where "new viruses" come from; see if you know the basics.
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Big Mandalorian Iron
The story of the first two episodes of The Mandalorian, told to the tune of Big Iron.
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The Neighbors' Window
Dan raves about The Neighbor's Window, which won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film last month.
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The Happy Song
The most delightful, joyous, carefree song you'll hear all week, plus a music video that's equal parts stop-motion and saccharine.
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Dating App Writers Room
A new video from BriTANick! Now there's a rare treat.
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Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch, by strangling it
Nicholas Carlo describes the situation where people have risky, hard-to-refactor code and reimplement the entire system instead. Now those people have two problems.