News from last month (2023/02 edition)
2023-02-01
Last modified on 2023-02-03Programming
Web (HTML, CSS, JS, Design...)
- Color Formats in CSS - hex, rgb, hsl, lab
- Web Performance Calendar » What goes into making a new Web Vital metric
- Conditional CSS - Ahmad Shadeed
- Those Hyping Blockchain Need to Learn Internet History
- The Linear effect - by Daryl Ginn - Rectangle
- How to debounce and throttle in React without losing your mind
- CSS { In Real Life } | Disentangling Frameworks
- SSSVG: An Interactive SVG Reference | fffuel
- Explore Wikipedia’s New Look – Wikimedia Foundation
- Things I want to see in JavaScript and Frontend development in 2023 • Paul Armstrong
- Greater styling control over type with
initial-letter- Stephanie Stimac's Blog - The 12-bit rainbow palette
- CSS Wishlist 2023 - daverupert.com
- “Most of our users are on Desktop” | Andy Bell
- Astro 2.0 | Astro
Backend & languages
- GitHub - sourcegraph/conc: Better structured concurrency for go
- From Ruby to Node: Overhauling Shopify’s CLI for a Better Developer Experience (2023)
- How to improve Python packaging, or why fourteen tools are at least twelve too many | Chris Warrick
- Kotlin 1.8.0 Released | The Kotlin Blog
- Why is Rust's build system uniquely hard to use?
- Thoughts on the Python packaging ecosystem | Pradyun Gedam
- JEP draft: No longer require super() and this() to appear first in a constructor
Open source, Projects & Tools
- Twitter rival Mastodon rejects funding to preserve nonprofit status | Ars Technica
- PocketBase - Open Source backend in 1 file
- unblob - extract everything!
- Libre Arts - 2023 in preview
- GitHub - brycedrennan/imaginAIry: AI imagined images. Pythonic generation of stable diffusion images.
- KeeperFX - Dungeon Keeper Opensource Remake and Fan Expansion
- WineHQ - Wine Announcement - The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 8.0
Other things, good practices, thoughts etc
- What We Do in the /etc/shadow – Cryptography with Passwords - Dhole Moments
- Reverse Prompt Engineering for Fun and (no) Profit
- A Guide To Command-Line Data Manipulation — Smashing Magazine
- Linux Foundation Announces Overture Maps Foundation to Build Interoperable Open Map Data
- Microsoft’s new AI can simulate anyone’s voice with 3 seconds of audio | Ars Technica
- Taking over a Dead IoT Company
- Makefiles for Web Work – Ross Zurowski
- The Shit Show • furbo.org
- Replacing Pandas with Polars. A Practical Guide. - Confessions of a Data Guy
- myme.no - Git Commands You Probably Do Not Need
- Sources of Complexity: Constraints • Hillel Wayne
- MusicLM
- Forking Chrome to render in a terminal - Fathy Boundjadj
- Natural language is the lazy user interface - Austin Z. Henley
Science
- When did humans first start to speak? How language evolved in Africa
- Riddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable? | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Lab-grown retinal eye cells make successful connections, open door for clinical trials to treat blindness
- How sugar and fat affect your brain
- The Surprising Reason Some People Always Blame Others | Psychology Today
- Hubble finds hungry black hole twisting captured star into donut shape
- Why some people can't tell left from right - BBC Future
- Buddhist monk microbiome study reveals impact of meditation on gut bacteria
- Great balls of fire: How flames behave in space | Astronomy.com
- Study shows nonreligious individuals hold bias against Christians in science due to perceived incompatibility
Social, Society, Psychology, Rights
- Charles Duhigg's Productivity Tips from Smarter, Faster, Better - The Atlantic
- Anger as Pakistan court frees rapist after he agrees deal to marry his victim | Global development | The Guardian
- The 5% Rule
- ‘Our sisters deserve better’: Afghan men quit university jobs after ban on female students | Afghanistan | The Guardian
- Emotions Aren’t the Enemy of Good Decision-Making
- Mexico bans smoking in public, one of world’s strictest anti-tobacco laws
- The Art of Knowing When to Quit - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
- Tegowerk - Cruel optimism (and lazy pessimism)
- TikTok use is associated with increased body dissatisfaction, study finds
- You don't have to engage with people on the Internet - Xe Iaso
- Make believe | Derek Sivers
- Free the nipple: Facebook and Instagram told to overhaul ban on bare breasts | Meta | The Guardian
- The Women of Iran Are Not Backing Down - POLITICO
En français / In French:
- Genet, Murakami, Limonov... La censure russe fait des ravages
- Afghanistan : six ONG suspendent leurs activités après l’interdiction de travailler avec des femmes – Libération
- Depuis que le mariage homosexuel a été légalisé aux États-Unis, le taux de suicide a chuté chez les adolescents
Privacy
- BREAKING: Meta prohibited from use of personal data for advertising
- Data Sharing and Migrant Women Reporting Abuse | Open Rights Group
- Apple Faces Rare $8.5M Fine For Illegal Data Harvesting
En français / In French:
Work
- Tesla broke labor laws by telling workers not to discuss pay, NLRB claims - The Verge
- It’s not remote work. Async work is the real paradigm shift - Blog @romenrg
- When to Give Verbal Feedback — and When to Do It in Writing
- The Psychological Toll of Being the Only Woman of Color at Work
- Please Stop Using These Phrases in Meetings
- Stop lying to yourself – you will never “fix it later” – The Useless Dev blog
- Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to software companies – Baldur Bjarnason
- Working Time and Work-Life Balance Around the World
- Working fewer hours is associated with higher life satisfaction, according to new research
- Bosses Give Workers Bullshit ‘Manager’ Titles To Avoid Paying Overtime: Study
- Paper Review: “Did you miss my comments or what?” Toxicity in Open Source Discussions - Tyler Cipriani
- Reader: OOPS! Learning from the incident you didn't have
- Microsoft Held Sting Show for Execs Day Before Layoff Announcement
- A difficult decision to set us up for the future
- So Good They Can’t Lay You Off? | This & That
- Blizzard fires WoW Classic lead after he protests employee evaluation policy | PC Gamer
En français / In French:
Various
- Screenplays for Movies and TV Shows
- Elon Musk Becomes First Person Ever To Lose $200 Billion
- Inside Luxury Bunkers Where Ultra-Rich Prepare for Doomsday
- De La Soul: Classic back catalogue finally available for streaming - BBC News
- Hidden books in NSW town Braidwood taking kids on literary treasure hunts to encourage reading - ABC News
- NYC Bans Students and Teachers from Using ChatGPT
- The Slow Death of Surveillance Capitalism Has Begun | WIRED
- 6-year-old who shot teacher took the gun from his mother, police say - CBS News
- Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT—Stephen Wolfram Writings
- The Talented Mr. Musk, Part 1: Free Speech – SOME MORE NEWS - YouTube
- The Talented Mr. Musk, Part 2: The Elon Files – SOME MORE NEWS - YouTube
- Revealed: Exxon made ‘breathtakingly’ accurate climate predictions in 1970s and 80s | ExxonMobil | The Guardian
- Taiwan ‘could be next Ukraine’, Japan’s prime minister warns G7 leaders
- Conservatives Are Panicking About AI Bias, Think ChatGPT Has Gone 'Woke'
- Twitterrific: End of an Era • The Breakroom
- Exclusive: Brazil launches first anti-deforestation raids under Lula bid to protect Amazon | Reuters
- Twitter officially bans third-party clients with new developer rules - The Verge
- Netherlands working to ban flat-nosed dogs, folded-ear cats to prevent animal suffering | NL Times
- Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past - BBC News
- DVDs and Blu-rays are necessary as streaming changes.
- Lessons on How to Draw by Hokusai
- Actually, Japan has changed a lot - by Noah Smith
- Rick Ross Explains Why He's Scared to Ride in a Tesla - XXL
- Bell Telephone Launched a Mobile Phone During the 1940s: Watch Bell's Film Showing How It Worked | Open Culture
- World Economic Forum: Here Are All The Covid-19 Precautions At Davos 2023
- Tweetbot. April 2011 - January 2023
- ‘Robin Hood’ energy strikers give free power to French schools, hospitals, low-income homes
- Finland Most Resistant to ‘Fake News,’ Report Finds
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