News from last month (2021/04 edition)
2021-04-01
Last modified on 2022-10-29Programming
Web (HTML, CSS, JS, Design...)
- UX inspiration from history: Sony Walkman
- Why I Don't Like Tailwind CSS
- 10 Years of Open-Source Visualization
- The Kilobyte’s Gambit ♟️💾 1k chess game
- CSS Auditing Tools
- SvelteKit is in public beta
- 1-Line Layouts: 10 Modern CSS layout and sizing techniques that highlight just how robust and impactful a single-line of styling code can be
- Just-In-Time: The Next Generation of Tailwind CSS
- Storybook for Svelte
- Designing calculator apps
- Which color scale to use when visualizing data
- Accessible Text Labels For All
- Handling Text Over Images in CSS
- How to create a screen reader accessible graph like Apple's with D3.js
- The End of AMP
- JavaScript: What is the meaning of this?
- Dark mode in 5 minutes, with inverted lightness variables
- Font size is useless; let’s fix it
Backend & languages
- Announcing Flutter 2
- Resurrecting Fortran
- Crystal 1.0 - What to expect
- A "Better C" Benchmark
- Darker Corners of Go
- REST vs. GraphQL vs. gRPC
Other things, good practices, thoughts etc
- They Live and the secret history of the Mozilla logo
- How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
- sigstore: A non-profit, public good software signing & transparency service
- Earn future maintainers esteem by writing simple ADRs
En français / In French:
Cloud & Ops/DevOps
- YAML Multiline: Find the right syntax for your YAML multiline strings
- Using Prometheus Exemplars to jump from metrics to traces in Grafana
- 20 Million Miners: Finding Malicious Cryptojacking Images in Docker Hub
En français / In French:
Science
- The Pile: An 800GB Dataset of Diverse Text for Language Modeling
- Can an Ancient African Philosophy Save Us from AI Bias?
- Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks
- Press release: Breaking the warp barrier for faster-than-light travel
- Hubble Sees New Atmosphere Forming on a Rocky Exoplanet
- Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates
- After 50 Years, Physicists Confirm The Existence of an Elusive Quasiparticle
- Million-year-old mammoth teeth yield world's oldest DNA
- These Mutant Rabbits Walk on Two Legs, and Geneticists Now Know Why
Open source, Projects & Tools
- Zoom Escaper
- Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana.
- Audacity 3.0.0 Released
- Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals
- curl is 23 years old today
- WTF is the personal information dashboard for your terminal
- Red Hat statement about Richard Stallman’s return to the Free Software Foundation board
- #Cancel We The Web?
Business, career, level up, thoughts
- A Simple Compliment Can Make a Big Difference
- Sourcing in practice: Dev advocate example
- How HashiCorp Works: A website dedicated to making our implicit practices explicit
- Things your manager might not know
En français / In French:
Privacy, Digital Rights, Security
- Sheryl Sandberg and Top Facebook Execs Silenced an Enemy of Turkey to Prevent a Hit to the Company’s Business
- What Do You Actually Agree To When You Accept All Cookies
- Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea
- Researcher Publishes Code to Exploit Microsoft Exchange Vulnerabilities on Github
- Critics fume after Github removes exploit code for Exchange vulnerabilities
- A Spectre proof-of-concept for a Spectre-proof web
- Encrypted messaging app Signal no longer working in China
- A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16
- Cars Have Your Location. This Spy Firm Wants to Sell It to the U.S. Military
- Why You Shouldn’t Use Google Chrome After New Privacy Disclosure
- H2C Smuggling in the Wild
- Analyzing attacks taking advantage of the Exchange Server vulnerabilities
- This is what happens when ICE asks Google for your user information
- Newly-Discovered Vulnerabilities Could Allow for Bypass of Spectre Mitigations in Linux
- HIPAA Password Requirements Explained
Various
- Scientists Have Invented Light-Up OLED Tattoos
- The birth of a mega Antarctic iceberg
- BATS and the ORIGIN of OUTBREAKS
- Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed poor load times, official update coming
- How YouTube failed the 2020 election test
- Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder.
- The Collections database consists of entries for more than 480,000 works in the Musée du Louvre and Musée National Eugène-Delacroix.
- Former prisoners struggle to re-enter society. What happens when society moves online?
- Steer through the Suez Canal
- It is time to negotiate global treaties on artificial intelligence
- Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account
En français / In French:
- «Click and collect», un anglicisme (inutilement) sur toutes les lèvres
- "Droits humains" vs "Droits de l’Homme" : en finir avec une logique linguistique discriminatoire
- Bon, c'est officiel : en français, on dit bien "numérique" et pas "digital"
- La «drogue» saisie par les policiers était... de la poudre de fraises Tagada
- Cassettes audio : un étonnant retour en grâce