News from last month (2023/05 edition)
2023-05-01
Last modified on 2023-05-17Programming
Web (HTML, CSS, JS, Design...)
- All you need to know about hyphenation in CSS | Clagnut by Richard Rutter
- Why Not document.write()? – CSS Wizardry – Web Performance Optimisation
- CSS Masking - Ahmad Shadeed
- Why do websites have so many pop-ups? - The Verge
- CSS Text balancing with text-wrap:balance - Ahmad Shadeed
- Expanding Grid Cards with View Transitions - Chris Coyier
- Modern.js
- The Most Common Mistakes When Using React | ClarityDev blog
- Using the Cookie Store API
- What's new in ECMAScript 2023 | pawelgrzybek.com
- Crafting the Next.js Website
Backend & languages
Open source, Projects & Tools
- Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm
- trurl
- Open-Source Software (OSS) Licenses Explained | The JetBrains Platform Blog
- The early days of Linux [LWN.net]
- GIMP 2.10.34 Released - GIMP
Other things, good practices, thoughts etc
- XUL Layout is gone | Words
- Comprehensive keyboard handling in terminals - kitty
- Programming Isn't Coding
- Open Source Insights
- Build in-browser WordPress experiences with WordPress Playground and WebAssembly
- Exercism
- Training nanoGPT entirely on content from my blog | Simon Willison’s TILs
- XINF
- Docker Compose Experiment: Sync Files and Automatically Rebuild Services with Watch Mode
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Science
- 2 newfound black holes are the closest ever to Earth | Space
- NASA’s Webb Scores Another Ringed World With New Image of Uranus | NASA
- Runaway black hole tears through space, creating trail of new stars
- Hubble Unexpectedly Finds Double Quasar in Distant Universe | NASA
- A myth no more: Cranberry products can prevent urinary tract infections for women - Scimex
- Researchers Taught Parrots to Video Call Other Parrots
- "Nothing" doesn't exist. Instead, there's "quantum foam" - Big Think
- Seeing Triple (Annotated) | ESA/Webb
Social, Society, Psychology, Rights
- Virginia Norwood, a pioneer in satellite land imaging, dies at age 96 : NPR
- Mira Murati: The Albanian Woman Who Developed ChatGPT - Global Woman Magazine
- Girls quit sport due to clothing concerns at "alarming" rates - Scimex
- Full article: Practical, professional or patriarchal? An investigation into the socio-cultural impacts of gendered school sports uniform and the role uniform plays in shaping female experiences of school sport
- The Otherworldly Compositions of an Ethiopian Nun | The New Yorker
- Giving pregnant women routine third trimester | EurekAlert!
- Arkansas Makes It Illegal For Minors to Be on Social Media Without Parental Consent
- Hungary passes law allowing citizens to report same-sex parents to law enforcement - LGBTQ Nation
- Twitter quietly changes its hateful conduct policy to remove standing protections for its transgender users
- TikTok’s Algorithm Keeps Pushing Suicide to Vulnerable Teens - Bloomberg
- Forced participation in religious activities to be classified as child abuse in Japan | The Straits Times
- Four Ways Hugs Are Good for Your Health
- 4 — 42: A digital inclusion book | ITCILO
- Fathers’ Leave Reduces Sexist Attitudes | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
- A US Bill Would Ban Kids Under 13 From Joining Social Media | WIRED
Privacy
- Tesla workers shared images from car cameras, including “scenes of intimacy” | Ars Technica
- FBI says you shouldn't use public phone charging stations
- Smartphones With Popular Qualcomm Chip Secretly Share Private Information With US Chip-Maker | Nitrokey
Work
- 12 Essential Product Manager Skills For 2023 — Reforge
- Ten blunt things I wish I could tell clients - Karl Groves
- How Promotions Ruin Dev Careers w/ Shopify's Dir. of Engineering James Stanier
- Interview questions: What practices in software teams lead to better quality products? | Christian Heilmann
- Be a thermostat, not a thermometer | Lara Hogan
- Autodesk job interest increased by 400% after remote work push | Fortune
- It’s time for the tech industry to live up to its ideals | by Chelsey Glasson | Apr, 2023 | UX Collective
- Does No-Resumé, No-Interview Hiring Work? New Data Say Yes
- On Ageism · Jens Oliver Meiert
- 5 topics you should touch on during the recruitment process - DEV Community
Various
- Dumb phones are on the rise in the U.S. as Gen Z limits screen time
- Amsterdam sex workers protest plans to close its centuries-old red light district | News24
- Analysis of Twitter algorithm code reveals social medium down-ranks tweets about Ukraine
- Last students graduate: School closures spread in ageing Japan
- ChatGPT and Dall-E AI Should Watermark Their Results
- Utah parent calls Bible 'porn' in wake of ban on sexually explicit books | WWMT
- Donald Trump pictured in New York court as he pleads not guilty to 34 felony counts | US News | Sky News
- We are hurtling toward a glitchy, spammy, scammy, AI-powered internet | MIT Technology Review
- If we lose the Internet Archive, we're screwed – The Statesman
- We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics
- Effective Spaced Repetition
- Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu: Military exercises suggest China is getting 'ready to launch a war against Taiwan' | CNN Politics
- Can Works by AI Art or Text Generators be Copyrighted? – ARTnews.com
- NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-affiliated media' : NPR
- AI Adoption Strategies at Tech Companies. How Shutterstock, Getty Images, Quora, and Others Handled AI Content
- Here's why Substack's scam worked so well • Buttondown
- Fictional Brands Archive
- China Embassy Removes Remarks About Ex-Soviet States - Bloomberg
- Tesla shareholder group complains Elon Musk is too distracted to run company | CNN Business
- Use ChatGPT to DRAMATICALLY improve your Japanese! - YouTube
- Steven Spielberg Regrets Editing Guns Out Of ‘E.T.’: “That Was A Mistake” – Deadline
- Biden warns North Korea against nuclear attack : NPR
- Carmakers like VW are bringing back buttons because drivers loathe all the touch screens.
- Donald Trump needs protective order to prevent him from publicizing evidence, prosecutors say - ABC News
- Chinese hackers outnumber FBI cyber staff 50 to 1, director Wray says
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