Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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Follow-up: I found two identical packs of Skittles, among 468 packs with a total of 27,740 Skittles
"Only" 464 packs of Skittles needed to be opened to find a pair. Yay?
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Why do people choose frameworks over vanilla JS?
This week on Twitter, Maxime Euzière asked why people choose large frameworks over vanilla JS. There are quite a few reasons. Some of them are really valid. Many of them aren't.
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Escape Room [NSFW]
If you've always wanted a comic combining B/D, gay sex, and escape room puzzles, by an awesome artist, you're in luck...
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We're moving from Stage 2 to Stage 3 polyamory
Alan M. cites Leanna Wolfe's claim that we're moving, culturally-speaking, from the second to the third phase of the polyamory movement.
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Out of the ordinary: getting digital...
Getting digital at the Bodleian; a piece celebrating the work of my team.
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G7 Comes Out in Favor of Encryption Backdoors
From a G7 meeting of interior ministers in Paris this month, an "outcome document":
Encourage Internet companies to establish lawful access solutions for their products and services, including data that is encrypted, for law enforcement and competent authorities to access digital evidence, when it is removed or hosted on IT servers located abroad or … -
Avengers Endgame: The Marvel Cinematic Universe explained
The BBC have adapted a Marvel infographic to show the order you SHOULD watch their films in.
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Robin Varley is fundraising for Campaign Against Living Miserably
Ruth's brother Robin is running a rental e-bike basically the entire length of England for charity. Here's Dan's take.
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Yet Another JavaScript Framework
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It is impossible to answer all of these questions simply. They can, however, be framed by the ideological project of the web itself. The web was built to be open, both technologically as a decentralized network, and philosophically as a democratizing medium. These questions are tricky because the web belongs to no one, … -
Google AMP lowered our page speed, and there's no choice but to use it - unlike kinds
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We here at unlike kinds decided that we had to implement Google AMP. We have to be in the Top Stories section because otherwise we’re punted down the page and away from potential readers. We didn’t really want to; our site is already fast because we made it fast, largely with a combination of clever … -
"You Me Her" Season 4 premiers, and other polyamory on TV
The "polyromantic comedy" series You Me Her opens its fourth season tonight (Tuesday April 9) at 10 on AT&T's Audience Network. There is no other show like it on television.
Season 1 was about a troubled couple who, independently, fell for the same third person by way of comic flukes: a novelty gimmick. But creator/producer John … -
Enable Private DNS with 1.1.1.1 on Android 9 Pie
Recently, Google officially launched Android 9 Pie, which includes a slew of new features around digital well-being, security, and privacy. If you’ve poked around the network settings on your phone while on the beta or after updating, you may have noticed a new Private DNS Mode now supported by Android.
This new feature simplifies the process … -
Word Ladder Solver
It's likely that the first word ladder puzzles were created by none other than Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), the talented British mathematician, and author of the Alice's adventures. According to Carroll, he invented them on Christmas Day in 1877.
A word ladder puzzle consists of two end-cap words, and the goal is to derive a … -
The British-Irish Dialect Quiz
What is your name for the playground game in which one child chases the rest and anyone who is touched becomes the pursuer?
New York Times
Pretty accurate for me, although my answers to some of the questions - representing the diversity of places around Great Britain that I've lived and some of the … -
Codecademy vs. The BBC Micro
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If you google “learn to code,” the first result you see is a link to Codecademy’s website. If there is a modern equivalent to the Computer Literacy Project, something with the same reach and similar aims, then it is Codecademy.
“Learn to code” is Codecademy’s tagline. I don’t think I’m the first person to point this …