Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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Long-forgotten virus could help solve antibiotics crisis
Alexander Belcredi (TED)
Fantastic lightweight introduction to bacteriophages and how they can potentially be our next best weapon against infection as we approach the post-antibiotic age. Plus an interesting look at the history and the discovery of bacteriophages! -
Goodbye, EdgeHTML
Microsoft is officially giving up on an independent shared platform for the internet. By adopting Chromium, Microsoft hands over control of even more of online life to Google.
This may sound melodramatic, but it’s not. The “browser engines” — Chromium from Google and Gecko Quantum from Mozilla — are “inside baseball” pieces of software that actually … -
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While we Blink, we loose [sic] the Web
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We used to have much more diversity in terms of browser engines years ago than we do today. This is easy to understand as the Web in 2018 is far more complex than it was in the early noughties. It is very costly to develop and maintain a Web engine and few companies have the … -
Risking a Homogeneous Web
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I don’t think Microsoft using Chromium is the end of the world, but it is another step down a slippery slope. It’s one more way of bolstering the influence Google currently has on the web.
We need Google to keep pushing the web forward. But it’s critical that we have other voices, with different viewpoints, to … -
Why You Should Never, Ever Use Quora
Yesterday, Quora announced that 100 million user accounts were compromised, including private activity like downvotes and direct messages, by a “malicious third party.”
Data breaches are a frustrating part of the lifecycle of every online service — as they grow in popularity, they become a bigger and bigger target. Nearly every major online service has had … -
Best mimicry ever
From Real Monstrosities via Ed Yong via Matthew Cobb comes one of the best cases of mimicry I’ve ever seen. Natural selection has been a fantastic artist here, giving a perfect illusion of three-dimensionality. In fact, this may be the most astonishing case of mimicry I know.
It’s a moth from eastern Asia: Uropyia meticulodina—a fantastic … -
Lunch With My First Love, 20 Years Later
I twist the band on my left ring finger. I never know what to do with my hands, especially when I’m nervous.
I’m at McDonald’s. I see him at the door before he sees me. I watch him look around the room. My heart is beating so fast it’s making me dizzy. The … -
'Boring and normal': the new frontier of polyamorous parenting
by Zosia Bielski Sometimes Stephanie Weisner doesn’t know how two-parent families do it all, without a Mike in tow.
Weisner, 38, has been in a polyamorous relationship with her husband, Ian Hubbard, and her work colleague, Mike Wissink, for eight years. The three adults all live together in one home in Moncton, alongside Weisner and Hubbard’s … -
If Doggerland Had Not Drowned
by Lee Rimmer
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As well additional land around our familiar coastlines, the lower sea level reveals a low lying 9,000 square mile landmass called Doggerland – named after Dogger Bank, the large sandbank which currently sits in a shallow area of the North Sea off the east coast of England (dogger being an old Dutch … -
JUST LEARNED THERE ARE 16 OUNCES IN A POUND
by @innesmck
JUST LEARNED THERE ARE 16 OUNCES IN A POUND AND I AM FUCKING LIVID
SIXTEEN???
WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF NUMBER IS THAT
i have had no reason to actually look into imperial measurements until now and frankly i … -
German chat app slacking on hashing fined €20k
by Richard Chirgwin (The Register) German chat platform Knuddels.de ("Cuddles") has been fined €20,000 for storing user passwords in plain text (no hash at all? Come on, people, it's 2018).
The data of Knuddels users was copied and published by malefactors in July. In September, someone emailed the company warning them that user data had been … -
Warp and Weft?
Warp and Weft by Paul Robert Lloyd (paulrobertlloyd.com) Earlier this month I had the good fortune to attend Material, a conference that explores the concept of the web as a material and all the intrinsic characteristics that entails. The variety of talks provided new perspectives on what it means to build for – and with …
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Baby Burping Robot
Useless Duck Company (YouTube)
At the moment at which he described the machine's success, I completely lost it. -
We Watched the Toy Story Porn Parody So You Don't Have To [NSFW]
A wise man once said "To Infinity and Beyond", Unfortunately there's no way of knowing who that man was or in what context it was meant to be understood, so let us instead turn our attention to the Toy Story porn parody - Sex Toy Story The XXX Parody Part 1.
It says Part 1, but … -
When to use CSS vs. JavaScript
CSS before JS #
My general rule of thumb is…
If something I want to do with JavaScript can be done with CSS instead, use CSS.
CSS parses and renders faster.
For things like animations, it more easily hooks into the browser’s refresh rate cycle to provide silky smooth animations (this can be done in …