Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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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.
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Building the most inaccessible site possible with a perfect Lighthouse score
Manuel Matuzovic worked hard to make a web page that's violates so many accessibility rules but still passes a computerised audit.
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Where's My Elephant?
Tom Whyman pitches a theory of history that assumes that if there's a silly option, people will take it, even if it's also a terrible one.
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180 Tips for Remote Working
Dan reshares a list of remote working tips, along with links to some more tongue-in-cheek looks at the practice.
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Spoiled by the Web
Tyler Sticka relates the time that Apple made him rebuild and resubmit his app because it was 3 years old. And no other reason.
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'There's zero evidence that it's worse for children'
Yet another article showing that - except for the bigotry of other people - there are no downsides to being a child of polyamorous parents.
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What are blogs?
@wordpressdotcom shares a video from Jeopardy in which wordpress.com is featured.
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Chlorination Chicken
Jeremy Keith makes a sad joke about Brexit.