Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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Making It Boring
Jeremy Wagner proposes that the Web should be made more boring to make it usable by more people, more of the time, and faster. With Dan's comments.
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TacoBot 3000 (Part 3 of the Raining Tacos saga)
Parry Gripp's latest video contains the catchiest song about tacos or robots that you'll ever hear.
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Men. Abuse. Trauma. | Philosophy Tube
Dan watches "Men. Abuse. Trauma." on Philosophy Tube and doesn't quite get flashbacks.
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Review: Vintage Vibrators
Epiphora reviews vintage vibrators that are old enough to have belonged to her great grandmother. Hilarity ensues.
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Third party
Jeremy Keith wonders if the Web would have third-party cookies and JS at all if it were invented today, and Dan weighs in.
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30 Years in the making | The All-New Renault CLIO
If Renault had wanted Dan to buy a Clio instead of the new Zoe, they should have shown him THIS ad. All the feels!
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Should accessibility features be optional?
Go Make Things talks about the duty of library developers to add on-by-default accessibility features, and Dan summarises the conclusion.
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Perfect By K Lynn Smith
Oh Joy Sex Toy / K Lynn Smith
Now that's a hot comic. NSFW, so don't click through if you're not in a place where you can do so!
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Mission Across Wales
A sweary idiot goes on an amazing adventure: trying to cross Wales in a completely straight line, no matter what obstacles the country puts in his way. (Hilarious, gruelling) 4hr video series.
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Text Rendering Hates You
Alexis Beingessner takes a delightful dive into the variety of issues that face developers who have to implement text rendering. Turns out this is, and might always remain, an unsolved issue.
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Using JSLint For Evil - YouTube
JSON inventor Douglas Crockford explains why he gave permission for the reference implementation of JSLint to be used for evil.
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Supply-Chain Security and Trust
Bruce Schneier shares thoughts about why supply-chain attacks are, for now, undefeatable.
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Consume less, create more
We should spend less time reading and more time writing online. Dan's comments on an inspiring essay.
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Perpetual Flip Calendar
Video showing the construction of an ingenious perpetual calendar and the clever action that results.
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HTML Movies
HTML tags which share their names with (often terrible) films.