News from last month (2022/12 edition)
2022-12-01
Last modified on 2023-02-03Hello folks!
Let's have a special moment for the grand muskarade:
- Twitter reportedly ready to cut about 3,700 employees
- Twitter Managers Told Staff to Work 12-Hour Shifts, 7 Days a Week: CNBC
- Twitter Now Asks Some Fired Workers to Please Come Back - Bloomberg
- Read Elon Musk’s first email to Twitter employees - The Verge
- Twitter closes offices until Monday as employees quit in droves | CBC News
- Trent Reznor to quit Twitter, blaming its "toxic environment”
- Elon Musk announces ‘general amnesty’ for all suspended Twitter accounts
- Leaving Twitter's Walled Garden | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Twitter is Going Great!
And in French:
- « Elon Musk passe pour un blaireau » : entretien avec le créateur de Mastodon, l' autre Twitter | Vanity Fair
- Elon Musk rachète le Père Noël et rend payantes les lettres des enfants
Now, time for the links you are waiting for!
Programming
Web (HTML, CSS, JS, Design...)
- Is Turbopack really 10x Faster than Vite? · Discussion #8 · yyx990803/vite-vs-next-turbo-hmr · GitHub
- What's new in Svelte: November 2022
- The Case for JPEG XL
- Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants us to 'ignore' Web3
- blakewatson.com – Almost monospaced: the perfect fonts for writing
- Introducing SolidStart: The SolidJS Framework
- .io domains considered harmful
- Detecting caps lock in JavaScript
- Day 38: vh, svh, lvh, and dvh - Manuel Matuzović
- Why you should never use px to set font-size in CSS - Josh Collinsworth blog
- An Interactive Guide to Flexbox in CSS
- ArrowJS • Docs
- What’s new in Angular 15? | Ninja Squad
- The Math Behind Nesting Rounded Corners – Cloud Four
- Tree views in CSS
En français / In French:
- [DevFest Nantes 2022] #RetourAuxSources : Le cache HTTP - YouTube
- Améliorer l’expérience utilisateur de vos formulaires web
Backend & languages
- Crystal 1.6.2 is released! - The Crystal Programming Language
- Making a DNS query in Ruby from scratch
- C Isn't A Programming Language Anymore - Faultlore
- Thirteen Years of Go - The Go Programming Language
- A cost model for Nim - Nim Blog
- Perl performance evolution over the last decade | Dimitrios Kechagias [blogs.perl.org]
- Used in production - The Crystal Programming Language
- The downsides of compile time evaluation | Handmade Network
- Gleam
- Know Ruby? Enter Crystal! - Crystal For Rubyists
Open source, Projects & Tools
- Announcing Godot's Graduation from SFC! - Software Freedom Conservancy
- Duplicati
- How OSI got to Mastodon - Voices of Open Source
- The Man Behind Mastodon, Eugen Rochko, Built It for This Moment | WIRED
- Happy 27! - GIMP
- GitHub - zegl/extremely-linear: Extremely Linear Git History
En français / In French:
Other things, good practices, thoughts etc
- Announcing Docker Hub OCI Artifacts Support - Docker
- SourceHut terms of service updates, cryptocurrency-related projects to be removed
- Phylum Discovers Dozens More PyPI Packages Attempting to Deliver W4SP Stealer in Ongoing Supply-Chain Attack
- Markdown, Asciidoc, or reStructuredText - a tale of docs-as-code - Dewan’s Blog
- Tool Release – Web3 Decoder Burp Suite Extension – NCC Group Research
- Tutorial: Set Up Your Shell For Kubernetes... - Sebastien Thomas, Wunderkind & Archy Khayretdinov, - YouTube
- Blog Stéphane Bortzmeyer: Survey of the DNS servers in the fediverse
- QR codes | Dan Hollick 🇿🇦
- Git Notes: git's coolest, most unloved feature - Tyler Cipriani
Science
- Oldest known sentence written in first alphabet discovered – on a head-lice comb | Language | The Guardian
- CRISPR cancer trial success paves the way for personalized treatments
- Flu and colds are back with a vengeance — why now?
- The leap second’s time is up: world votes to stop pausing clocks
- This new interactive map lets you scroll through the universe | Hub
En français / In French:
Social, Society, Psychology
- Siri, Cortana, Alexa: Why Do So Many Digital Assistants Have Feminine Names? - The Atlantic
- How Confidence Is Weaponized Against Women
- The Creative Switch – Ralph Ammer
- Bishop of Oxford says church should marry gay couples - BBC News
- Everything is aiming: forget the target and focus on your aim - Ness Labs
- Attractive female students no longer earned higher grades when classes moved online during COVID-19
- Money can buy happiness for households earning up to $123,000, study suggests
- AOC Slams Boebert for Offering Only ‘Prayers’ to LGBTQ Shooting Victims – Rolling Stone
- Unknown Influence | Social Media, Democracy and Transparency - YouTube
- Why writing by hand is still the best way to retain information - Stack Overflow Blog
En français / In French:
- [DevFest Nantes 2022] Ctrl+Alt+Depression - YouTube
- Une héroïne qui a des kilos en trop chez Disney : une première
Work
- 5 Questions Every Manager Needs to Ask Their Direct Reports
- This Is The Best Way To Handle Big Transitions In Life: 6 Secrets From Research - Barking Up The Wrong Tree
- The 3 things that keep people feeling motivated at work |
- cohost! - "Systems Engineering, or "why james gets paid""
- AddyOsmani.com - Managing Complex Change
- Craft — PaulStamatiou.com
- These companies ran an experiment: Pay workers their full salary to work fewer days : Planet Money : NPR
- What Happened When Zapier Cancelled Meetings for a Week? (Hint: Not Much) - Study Hacks - Cal Newport
Privacy, Rights and Digital Rights, Security
- TikTok tells European users its staff in China get access to their data | TikTok | The Guardian
- Uber Plans to Advertise to You At Every Stage of Your Ride
- Qatar won't allow any cooked Kosher food and public Jewish prayer
- Apple is becoming an ad company despite privacy claims | Proton
- Mercedes, BMW Cars Have DLC Now, And It's Taking The Piss
- WhatsApp data breach sees nearly 500 million user records up for sale | TechRadar
- jwz: PSA: Do Not Use Services That Hate The Internet
- Twitter accused of covering up data breach | Cyber Security Hub
En français / In French:
- Facebook : des employés licenciés pour avoir détourné les comptes d’utilisateurs - Les Numériques
- Guerlain (LVMH) : luxe et surveillance | Pixel de tracking
Various
- Start paying for internet stuff - Can's blog
- Something about our languages · Garbage Collector
- Use RSS for privacy and efficiency :: [rsapkf/www]
- “It was like holding a f**king live wire”: how Rage Against The Machine’s explosive debut album changed everything | Louder
- The many branches of the Fediverse
- LinkedIn Users Are Lying on Their Profiles
- Please Stop Doing This - YouTube
- Wissam Shawkat: turning Arabic calligraphy around - emmy·in·the·mix
- inessential: After Twitter
- Kanaye Nagasawa: The samurai who forever changed California - BBC Travel
- In Praise of Subtle Performance - YouTube
- The Epicurean attitude to death – Epicurus Today
- New NES Tetris Technique: Faster Than Hypertapping! - YouTube
- Year 2038 problem - Wikipedia
- Tumblr to add support for ActivityPub, the social protocol powering Mastodon and other apps • TechCrunch
- Businesses Hope to Cut Cyber Turnover by Encouraging Volunteer Work - WSJ
- Dani DaOrtiz at Fool US 2022 (the only act that Penn and Teller didn’t even try to figure out.) - YouTube
En français / In French:
- Kathleen Booth — Wikipédia
- Condamnation à mort de trois opposants à Neom, le projet pharaonique de Mohammed ben Salmane | Euronews
- Depuis quand mangeons-nous du fromage? - Heidi.news
- Pourquoi la couleur a-t-elle disparu de notre quotidien ? - YouTube
- Le blog de Laurel
- Les hackers sont-ils les héros contemporains ? | Tracks | ARTE - YouTube