Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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The CSS Working Group At TPAC: What's New In CSS?
Last week, I attended W3C TPAC as well as the CSS Working Group meeting there. Various changes were made to specifications, and discussions had which I feel are of interest to web designers and developers. In this article, I’ll explain a little bit about what happens at TPAC, and show some examples and demos of …
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Why didn't humanity save the planet? Perhaps they were busy
First Dog on the Moon (The Guardian)
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How Do You Move A Bookstore? With A Human Chain, Book By Book
When October Books, a small radical bookshop in Southampton, England, was moving to a new location down the street, it faced a problem. How could it move its entire stock to the new spot, without spending a lot of money or closing down for long?
The shop came up with a clever solution: They put out … -
Stranger Danger: Still the right message for children?
Many parents remember the "Stranger Danger" message given to children during the 1970s and 80s. Government videos warned children not to talk to people they didn't know. But a new message is being trialled in the UK, which its creators think is better at keeping children safe.
"I tried to get the [old] Stranger … -
Websites in 2018
Seva Zaikov
Are you a time-traveller? Just arrived in 2018? Want to know what the Web of our day is like? This. This is what it's like (click through for the full horror). -
The Expert: Wrong Angle
Lauris Beinerts (YouTube)
Do you remember The Expert, that video from 2014 that had engineers around the world laughing and crying in equal measure? Turns out that, earlier this year, a trio of sequels were made! This is the first of them. -
Grenfell Tower: The fires that foretold the tragedy
On 14 June 2017, televisions across the country showed a west London tower block burn. For some, this was history repeating itself - as if five similar fires had simply not been important enough to prevent the deaths of 72 people in Grenfell Tower.
Catherine Hickman was on the phone when she died. It … -
Linda Liukas, Hello Ruby and the magic of coding
Linda Liukas's best-selling Hello Ruby books teach children that computers are fun and coding can be a magical experience.
BBC News
See the original article to watch a great video interview with Linda Liukas. Linda is the founder of Rails Girls and author of a number of books encouraging children to learn computer programming (which … -
A 2016 version of the 1914 Isochronic London/World travel times map
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Forza Horizon 4 is really very British
There is a phenomenon of culture that I’m not convinced has a name. Living in the UK, the vast, vast majority of the media I consume is from the US. And nearly always has been. While television was more localised, all my life the films and games (and indeed an awful lot of the TV) … -
It's time to winterize your vagina
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Breakout your plug-in vibrator and don’t forget the snow stud sheath. No battery-powered device can plow through vaginal snow pack. You need alternating current to warm that shit up after a long day of sitting naked outside filling your vagina with snow and ice. Don’t get clitoral anti freeze though, that crap stings like a … -
Escape from Spiderhead
“Drip on?” Abnesti said over the P.A.
“What’s in it?” I said.
“Hilarious,” he said.
“Acknowledge,” I said.
Abnesti used his remote. My MobiPak™ whirred. Soon the Interior Garden looked really nice. Everything seemed super-clear.
I said out loud, as I was supposed to, what I was feeling.
“Garden looks nice,” I said. “Super-clear.”
Abnesti said, “Jeff, how about we pep up … -
SQLite Code Of Ethics (formerly Code of Conduct)
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Attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good you see in yourself.
Recognize always that evil is your own doing, and to impute it to yourself.
Fear the Day of Judgment.
Be in dread of hell.
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SQLite
In an age when more and more open-source projects are … -
Rehabilitating Google AMP: My failed attempt
This article is a follow-up to my article “Why Google AMP is a threat to the Open Web”. In the comments of that article I promised I’d soon provide a follow-up, and for reasons I’ll get into, that has not been possible until now – but now I’m finally providing it.
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#youbroketheinternet So We Got Tracked Anyway
Did you install EFF's brilliant Privacy Badger or any other smart HTTP Cookie management tool? Or did you simply pick the privacy preference in your browser that ignores all third-party cookies? Did many websites you visit annoy you with permission-to-use-cookies pop-ups because of European legislation?
Guess what, it's all been useless.
Hamburg university researchers …