Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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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.
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Pay Up, Or We'll Make Google Ban Your Ads
Brian Krebs writes about a new trend of Web extortion, based on threatening to get a victim's website's ads demonetised by pretending to be the victim and attempting to exploit them.
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Who finished second?
Nick Berry shares an amazing maths/logic puzzle, and Dan encourages you to give it a go for yourself.
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Old CSS, new CSS
eevee describes their experience of the early-CSS and pre-CSS Web, and Dan echoes a familiarity with the topics covered.
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Boneworks
Yahtzee Croshaw reviews Boneworks and considers how VR is getting along.
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Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open
Robert Heaton reverse-engineers what data his Wacom tablet is stealing from him, and Dan expresses a growing concern about surveillance capitalism.
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Honk More, Wait More
Mumbai police are experimenting with a machine that makes the lights stay red for longer while people are honking their horns.
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The Great Flamingo Uprising
The story of the war between the geese and the flamingoes at a petting zoo. Laugh-out-loud funny.
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This equation will change how you see the world
Veritasium's latest video looks at the patterns of order and chaos in fractals, and Dan thinks it's surprisingly good.