Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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Browsers are pretty good at loading pages, it turns out
Carter Sande observes that MDN ran faster on old-fashioned hyperlinks than it did with Javascript background loading, and explains why.
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How the Knights Hospitaller 'accidentally' became a major European air power
Let's talk about the point after WW2 where the Knights Hospitaller, of medieval crusading fame, 'accidentally' became a major European air power.
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Darkroom Printing
Rory tells the story of how he set up a darkroom in his (spare) windowless bathroom and shares his experience of becoming an increasingly analogue photographer in a digital world.
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JavaScript frameworks are better for accessibility (and other myths)
Chris Ferdinandi counters a Twitter user's argument that web frameworks solve a plethora of common web development challenges, and he's right.
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Stellar Rescue
The survivors of the mining ship Red Dwarf sell out to take part in an advertisement for the AA. Which is awesome.
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Pure Fourier series animations for 12 oddly satisfying minutes
3Blue1Brown produced animations showing Fourier series configured to draw interesting pictures, and they're mesmerising.
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How a video game community filled my nephew's final days with joy
Mat Westhorpe on how the Elite Dangerous videogame player community came together to bring as much joy as possible to the final weeks of the life of his 15 year-old nephew. Is somebody cutting onions in here?
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Metropoloid: A Metropolis Remix
Yaz Minksy and Joe Blair use classic videogames to produce a contemporary soundtrack for epic 1927 silent film Metropolis.
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Imogen Heap: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Imogen Heap demonstrates how she uses her Mi.Mu gloves as an expressive music manipulation tool, and then goes on to sing the most haunting rendition of Hide and Seek you'll ever hear.
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I Staked Out My Local Dominos to See Just How Accurate Its Pizza Tracker Is
Brian VanHooker tests the accuracy of the Dominos' Pizza Tracker by stalking his local delivery driver. Top-class investigative journalism.
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I Put Words on this Webpage so You Have to Listen to Me Now
Christine Dodrill is angry with the way that people use tool to do thing.
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Y'all wanna hear a story about the time I accidentally transported a brick of heroin from Los Angeles to Seattle?
The story of two guys accidentally transporting a shit-ton of drugs. Epic.
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£20 for a boiled egg, one piece of toast and a mug of tea?
A Twitter thread about one man's experience of a London cafe where he made his own boiled egg and soldiers and paid £20... and why that's great.
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The problem with single page apps
Chris Ferdinandi shares his concerns about SPAs, and I echo with my own.
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Visit the Ashmolean Museum
Keep an eye out for our youngest (and, briefly, me!) in this promotional video just released by the Ashmolean Museum.