Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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Look After Lorcán
Dan's friend Jen's two-year-old son Lorcán suffers from cystic fibrosis, and can't get the medicine he needs. Can you help?
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Berlin 8:00 a.m.
A great (interactive) demonstration of how and why phantom traffic jams occur: why some people wanting to drive faster can result in EVERYBODY having to drive slower!
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How to Draw a Horse
Dan reshares a comic about... drawing horses? Is that it? Really?
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The last Soviet citizen: The cosmonaut who was left behind in space - Russia Beyond
Repost of the story of Sergei Krikalev, who was aboard Mir when the Soviet Union collapsed and found himself both stateless and weightless.
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Reducing motion with the picture element
A simple, elegant way to use an inline CSS media query to provide "prefers-reduced-motion" support on animated content.
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Goat LARP
Oh, I thought: it's LARPing but with goats: well, whatever floats your goat... but no, I was wrong.
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Caverna Do Dragão
Remember that 80s TV show Dungeons & Dragons? It turns out that Renault's target customer base in Brazil do, too.
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The man who made Einstein world-famous
A fascinating BBC News story about how astronomer Arthur Stanley Eddington helped the world "discover" the genius of Albert Einstein.
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Going Critical
A fabulous and interactive exploration of network interactions. Treat as a longread (with some opportunities to play as you go along).
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Danny Daycare
This isn't how I behave when I'm out cycling with one of our little 'uns in tow. But sometimes, just sometimes, when I see a solid-looking jump...
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Cat Salesman (Sioux Falls Area Humane Society)
Our cats are ready to walk off the lot. Adopt! Adopt! Adopt!
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Accessibility Resources
Beverley Newing shares their hotlist of their favourite accessibility resources.
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Blowout
I spent a delightful couple-of-seconds between reading and "getting" this comic.
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JavaScript and the mobile-only user
Chris Ferdinandi provides further arguments about why Javascript must be considered a progressive enhancement.
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Permission to Write Stuff
Brendan Dawes grants bloggers permission to write... whatever they like: perhaps necessary in an age in which it can feel like you have to have a REASON to be a blogger (hint: you don't).