News from last month (2023/04 edition)
2023-04-01
Last modified on 2023-04-01Programming
Web (HTML, CSS, JS, Design...)
- Homepage | Civet
- On Container Queries, Responsive Images, and JPEG-XL – Cloud Four
- A Guide To Accessible Form Validation — Smashing Magazine
- The Web Needs a Native .visually-hidden
- Getting Started with Style Queries - Chrome Developers
- Activity Pub vs Web Frameworks — Dan Palmer
- Sentry’s Frontend Tests: Migrating from Enzyme to React Testing Library | Product Blog • Sentry
- 6 CSS snippets every front-end developer should know in 2023
- How-to: Are you making these five mistakes when writing alt text? - The A11Y Project
- How blogs shaped the web | Chase McCoy
- Visually hidden content is a hack that needs to be resolved, not enshrined | scottohara.me
- Page builders might not be a good idea \m/ S.Bistrović
- The search element | scottohara.me
- WebKit Features in Safari 16.4 | WebKit
- JavaScript import maps are now supported cross-browser
Backend & languages
- Zig's Curious Multi-Sequence For Loops | Loris Cro's Blog
- When Zig is safer and faster than Rust
- Introducing Service Weaver: A Framework for Writing Distributed Applications | Google Open Source Blog
- Something Pretty Right: A History of Visual Basic | Retool
Other things, good practices, thoughts etc
- The lone developer problem
- Stop saying “technical debt” - Stack Overflow Blog
- Languages are not Ecosystems
- Key Overwriting (KO) Attacks against OpenPGP
- So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous
- Kubernetes without Ansible is just wrong
- How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages
- The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux | Blog
- Load 'em up and throw 'em under the bus
- MRSK: Deploy web apps anywhere
- MotherDuck: Big Data is Dead
- Exploiting prototype pollution in Node without the filesystem | PortSwigger Research
- On trust in software development
- Why Engineers Need To Write - by Ryan Peterman
- Gordon Moore, Intel co-founder and creator of Moore’s Law, has died - The Verge
- A Simple Framework for Architectural Decisions
Science
- Giant flying bug found at Arkansas Walmart turns out to be "super-rare" Jurassic-era insect - CBS News
- Keanu Reeves now has fungus-killing chemical compounds named after him | CNN
- Astronomers spotted shock waves shaking the cosmic web
- Is science about to end? - Big Think
- Beethoven's DNA
- RNA base in asteroid samples suggests origins of life on Earth: study
- A Potential Major Discovery: An Aperiodic Monotile
- Neutrino discovery will unlock secrets of rare cosmic events - Big Think
- Artificial Intelligence Searches for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- Preschoolers with pets have fewer food allergies - Scimex
Social, Society, Psychology, Rights
- The Nordic way to stop bullying - BBC Future
- How To Cultivate Friendships Without Spending Money To Go Out - The Good Trade
- On International Women's Day, Afghan women blast the Taliban and say the world has "neglected us completely" - CBS News
- Becoming a magician – Autotranslucence
- The UN in Afghanistan calls for an immediate end to draconian restrictions on the rights of women & girls by the de facto authorities | UNAMA
- Berlin to allow women to go topless in public swimming pools - BBC News
- I say dog, you say chicken? New study explores why we disagree so often | Berkeley News
- Overturning Roe v Wade likely led to an increase in distress in women - Scimex
En français / In French:
Privacy
Work
- Salesforce Reportedly Paying McConaughey Millions Despite Layoffs
- Nearly 40% of software engineers will only work remotely | TechTarget
- Managers Exploit Loyal Workers Over Less Committed Colleagues | Duke Today
En français / In French:
Various
- Anglish is a kind of English which prefers native words over those borrowed from foreign languages
- The history of writing tech! | blog.benwinding
- VW wouldn’t help locate car with abducted child because GPS subscription expired | Ars Technica
- The mysterious doodles hidden in a 1,300-year-old book - BBC Future
- Twitter’s transparency reporting has tanked under Elon Musk
- Russia fines Wikipedia for publishing facts instead of Kremlin war propaganda | Ars Technica
- Did You Know There’s a French Town Named After an Islamic Saying?
- Google Search Is Dying - by Dmitri Brereton - DKB Blog
- ChatGPT broke the EU plan to regulate AI – POLITICO
- Pope John Paul II covered up child abuse as cardinal in Poland, says report
- Some tools to help me focus | Brad Frost
- Elon Musk publicly mocks Twitter worker with disability who is unsure whether he's been laid off | CNN Business
- Traute Lafrenz, the last of the White Rose anti-Nazi resistance, dies aged 103 | Second world war | The Guardian
- Twitter insiders: We can't protect users from trolling under Musk - BBC News
- ‘It’s a pressure cooker’: Inside the chaos of Elon Musk’s Twitter
- Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone | WIRED
- I doubled-down on RSS – Eric Bailey
- The best icon is a text label — Thomas Byttebier
- Lysandre Labs, Tokyo, Japan | Power animal.
- Ignoring China’s displeasure, Dalai Lama names Mongolian boy as new Buddhist spiritual leader
- Brooklyn's newly opened Museum of Failure celebrates bad ideas, silly designs and overhyped products - CBS New York
- Italian museum invites U.S. school after principal resigns for showing 'pornographic' David statue | CBC News
- Cryptocurrencies add nothing useful to society, says chip-maker Nvidia | Cryptocurrencies | The Guardian
- Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark struck a deal to run their 200+ advanced fighter jets as a single fleet, creating a new headache for Russia
- Bicycle – Bartosz Ciechanowski
- Swedes will be 'sent to their deaths' if they join NATO, warns Moscow | Euronews
- Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage - BBC News
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