News from last month (2020/12 edition)
2020-12-04
Last modified on 2022-10-29Programming
Web (HTML, CSS, JS, Design...)
- JavaScript Operator Lookup
- 10 Insights from Adopting TypeScript at Scale
- The UX of Among Us: The importance of colorblind-friendly design
- The art of making information beautiful
- The Cleanest Trick for Autogrowing Textareas
- A Deep Dive Into CSS Grid minmax()
- Logical layout enhancements with flow-relative shorthands
- UI Design Challenge Generator
- Tailwind.css: Rapidly build modern websites without ever leaving your HTML.
- Archive.org Software Library: Flash
- The case for Weak Dependencies in JS
- Why Japanese Web Design Is So… Different (yes, this is old)
- The CSS Podcast: 027: Houdini Series: Typed Object Model
- Under-Engineered Responsive Tables
- d3: Use the Force
- How to Detect When a Sticky Element Gets Pinned
- Boop! A whimsical twist on hover transitions
- Vue vs. Svelte with Evan You and Rich Harris
- FrontPage: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
- Atkinson Hyperlegible Font: A new typeface – greater legibility and readability for low vision readers
- Why it's good for users that HTML, CSS and JS are separate languages
- Heatmap for polygons: visualise overlaps in a large polygon dataset
Backend & languages
- How Node.js Is Addressing the Challenge of Ryan Dahl’s Deno
- Rust vs Go
- Interview with Crystal language creators
- Announcing .NET 5.0
- Eleven Years of Go
- Leveraging Golang for Game Development and Operations
- Learn Assembly by Writing Entirely Too Many Brainfuck Compilers
- TIL: eBPF is awesome
- Generating Cooking Recipes with OpenAI's GPT-3 and Ruby
- You might not need machine learning
- Why AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help
- php8 Released!
- 1.5 is the midpoint between 0 and infinity in Ruby
- Esoteric Programming Languages – The Obscure and Unconventional
Other things, good practices etc
- The accidental genius of Yo: On minimal viable communications. More isn’t always better.
- Making Mass Effect not require administrator rights, or maybe how to not write a boolean check
- Moving OkCupid from REST to GraphQL
- Evidence-based software engineering: book released
- How do Spotify Codes work?
- Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases
- What is a 1x Engineer?
- When "progress" is backwards
- A practical guide to solving product debt
- Always leave the code better than you found it
En français / In French:
Cloud & Ops/DevOps
- Announcing k0s, the Smallest, Simplest Kubernetes Distribution
- A better Kubernetes, from the ground up
Science
- Video games 'good for well-being', says University of Oxford study
- Quantum computer race intensifies as alternative technology gains steam
- Scientists Uncover the Universal Geometry of Geology
- Psychologists find a mindset that can foster positive feelings amid interpersonal conflict
- Investigation of Room Temperature Formation of the Ultra‐Hard Nanocarbons Diamond and Lonsdaleite
- Space travel is bad for the body at a cellular level
- Losing Control: Sleep Deprivation Impairs the Suppression of Unwanted Thoughts
- PULSE: Self-Supervised Photo Upsampling via Latent Space Exploration of Generative Models
Open source, Projects & Tools
- Mutt 2.0 Release Notes
- Among Us, but it's a text adventure
- Unix ASCII games
- Git Rebase: Don’t be Afraid of the Force (Push)
- Should Rockets Have Only Free Software? Free Software and Appliances
- Servo’s new home
- Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back
- OpenStreetMap is Having a Moment
- Mastering kitty terminal
- GIMP: This is 25
- Using exa as a modern replacement to the venerable Unix ls command
- The UNIX Command Language (1976)
- tt: Practicing touch typing, and monitor your typing speed using your own text files
- SourceHut's second year in alpha
- Classic FOSS FPS 'Cube 2: Sauerbraten' sees the first release since 2013
En français / In French:
Business, career, level up, thoughts
- Tech’s Long Hours Are Discriminatory and Counterproductive
- Building products – Things I wish I knew earlier when I started building products.
- Attention Is My Most Valuable Asset for Productivity as a Software Developer
- The art of not caring as a Software Engineer
- These Are The Best Companies For Women During The Pandemic
- Why Reddit will pay workers the same salary no matter where they live
- We Rewrote Everything in $HOTLANG, and our Startup Still Failed
En français / In French:
Privacy, Digital Rights, Security
- In an Uncertain World, EFF Will Always Support the Users
- Let's Encrypt: Standing on Our Own Two Feet
- Tim Berners-Lee startup launches privacy-focused service to secure your data
- How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home
- New Platypus attack can steal data from Intel CPUs
- Microsoft: State-Sponsored Hackers Spotted Infiltrating COVID-19 Vaccine Research
- Going Bark: A Furry’s Guide to End-to-End Encryption
- Apple accuses Facebook of 'disregard for user privacy'
- Apple lets some Big Sur network traffic bypass firewalls
- Some prominent exposure apps are slowly rolling back freedoms
- This Bluetooth Attack Can Steal a Tesla Model X in Minutes
- Privacy Advocates Flag Concerns About Possible Government-Required Proof Of Coronavirus Vaccine
- Protect domains that don’t send email
- Facebook fined in South Korea for sharing user data without consent
Various
- Raspberry Pi 400: the $70 desktop PC
- Why You Should Watch Ricky Gervais’ After Life
- The cheap pen that changed writing forever
- Emoji B4 Emoji
- Microsoft study: Online risks that sow hate and division are growing
- Your Computer Isn't Yours, Can't open apps on macOS: an OCSP disaster waiting to happen and Application Trust is Hard, but Apple does it Well
- Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security
- India only G20 nation on track to meet Paris pact’s 2°C goal
- Declaring Email Bankruptcy
- The lie of the land: How topography made Tokyo the city it is today
- The Original Selfie Craze Was the Mirror
- Comparing iPhone OS 1.0 with iOS 14 using tree maps
- Pope, for first time, says China's Uighurs are 'persecuted'
- The Curious Case of Marc Rebillet: How "Loop Daddy" is Making Absurdity Cool Again
- France will begin labeling electronics with repairability ratings in January
- Developer successfully virtualizes ARM Windows on Apple Silicon
- I Spent 11 Years Working on This Line Rider Track
- New variety of apple discovered by Wiltshire runner
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