News from last month (2023/06 edition)
2023-06-01
Last modified on 2023-06-01Programming
Web (HTML, CSS, JS, Design...)
- Qwik Reaches v1.0
- Virtual DOM: Back in Block | Million.js
- Favour TypeScript Types Over Interfaces - Lloyd Atkinson
- JS private class fields considered harmful – Lea Verou
- Why I Like Using Maps (and WeakMaps) for Handling DOM Nodes | Alex MacArthur
- Chris James -HTMX is the Future
- Contrast Rebellion - to hell with unreadable, low-contrast texts!
- The problem with sticky menus and what to do instead – Adam Silver – designer, London, UK
- Google AMP: how Google tried to fix the web by taking it over - The Verge
- Reactive html apps in Go & alpine.js
- Scoped CSS is Back
- Rearrange / Animate CSS Grid Layouts with the View Transition API – Bram.us
- The ongoing defence of frontend as a full-time job | Christian Heilmann
- The Contrast Triangle
- Capsule: the WASM runners project
- HTML with Superpowers | HTML with Superpowers
- alex - catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing
- CSS Blend Modes
- Development notes from xkcd's "Gravity" and "Escape Speed"
- Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
- Humble Chronicles: Managing State with Signals @ tonsky.me
- What’s new in Angular 16? | Ninja Squad
- Be Careful Using ‘Menu’ — Adrian Roselli
- orogene
- What’s new in Vue 3.3? | Ninja Squad
- You don't need a modal window
- The HTTP QUERY Method
- Building Future-Proof High-Performance Websites With Astro Islands And Headless CMS — Smashing Magazine
- 300ms Faster: Reducing Wikipedia's Total Blocking Time
- Will Serving Real HTML Content Make A Website Faster? Let's Experiment! - WebPageTest Blog
Backend & languages
- Julia 1.9 Highlights
- Compose Multiplatform for iOS Is in Alpha | The Kotlin Blog
- KeyDB - The Faster Redis Alternative
- Memory Allocation
- How to start a Go project in 2023 | Ben E. C. Boyter
- Lua: The Little Language That Could
- Why I left Rust
- CrabLang
Open source, Projects & Tools
- Please don't upload my code on GitHub
- GitHub - GyulyVGC/sniffnet: Application to comfortably monitor your Internet traffic 🕵️♂️
- Plain Text Accounting portal - plaintextaccounting.org
Other things, good practices, thoughts etc
- OrbStack · Fast, light, simple Docker & Linux on macOS
- Use singular nouns for database table names
- The Full Story of Large Language Models and RLHF
- GitHub - erikw/vim-keybindings-everywhere-the-ultimate-list: The ultimate list of which programs support Vim-like keybindings natively, or how they can be added with extensions. A collaborative project.
- Functional documentation: HeydonWorks
- Gordon Moore - Wikipedia
- Ligatures in programming fonts | Butterick’s Practical Typography
- User Stories? Thanks but No.
- Bcrypt, a Popular Password Hashing Algorithm, Starts Its Long Goodbye | WIRED
- Windows XP Activation: GAME OVER
- Why is OAuth still hard in 2023? | Nango Blog
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Science
- A sapphire Schrödinger’s cat shows that quantum effects can scale up
- This Brazilian frog might be the first pollinating amphibian known to science | Science | AAAS
- Discover the first images of MTG-I1 | EUMETSAT
- New Study of Uranus’ Large Moons Shows 4 May Hold Water | NASA
- EU ready to back immediate open access without author fees - Research Professional News
- University of Glasgow - University news - Large-scale study reveals autoimmune disorders now affect around one in ten
- More evidence found showing the moon's inner core is solid, like Earth's
- Ancient Earth globe
- NASA Study Helps Explain Limit-Breaking Ultra-Luminous X-Ray Sources
- Hammerhead sharks are first fish found to ‘hold their breath’
- James Webb Telescope finds evidence of 'celestial monster' stars the size of 10,000 suns lurking at the dawn of time | Live Science
- Humanity's earliest recorded kiss occurred in Mesopotamia 4,500 years ago, claims new study
- Neanderthal flute - NMS
- Spending at least 120 minutes a week in nature is associated with good health and wellbeing | Scientific Reports
Social, Society, Psychology, Rights
- We Spoke to People Who Started Using ChatGPT As Their Therapist
- Germany launches €49 monthly ticket for nationwide public transport
- The key to becoming extraordinary - Ozan Varol
- “We Have 30 Extra Years”: A New Way of Thinking About Aging | Stanford Graduate School of Business
- Mental Liquidity · Collab Fund
- Brazil's Lula recognises six new indigenous reserves - BBC News
- Are You a Digital Narcissist?
- A guide to DARVO, the gaslighting response people give when they're called out
- DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman calls for universal basic income to cushion A.I. job loss | Fortune
- France finalizes law to regulate influencers: From labels on filtered images to bans on promoting cosmetic surgery | International | EL PAÍS English
- France is fighting to save your iPhone from an early death | Ars Technica
- Noise Is All around Us—and It’s Affecting You More than You Think | The Walrus
- Illinois to Become First State to Ban Book Bans
- What Deserves Our Attention?
En français / In French:
Privacy
- privacy not included | Shop smart and safe | Mozilla Foundation
- Researcher Meredith Whittaker says AI’s biggest risk isn’t ‘consciousness’—it’s the corporations that control them
- Passkeys: A loss of user control?
- TikTok Owner Had 'Backdoor' for CCP Access to US Data, Lawsuit Alleges
- HP disables customers’ printers if they use ink cartridges from cheaper rivals
En français / In French:
Work
- Choose Boring Technology Culture – charity.wtf
- 150 African Workers for AI Companies Vote to Unionize | Time
- New Survey: Performative Work and Productivity Theater | Visier
- What does productivity mean? Bosses aren’t really sure. - Vox
- Airbnb CEO: Bosses pushing in-office work going to Hamptons | Fortune
- Elon Musk Calls Remote Work Morally Wrong 'Bullshit'
- I just did a test to apply as a front end developer – and things aren’t going well | Christian Heilmann
- Modern work requires attention. Constant alerts steal it - Stack Overflow Blog
- How to Actually Start the Task You’ve Been Avoiding
- Unions Make Things Better (Even If You're Not In One) – SOME MORE NEWS - YouTube
- Boomer Who Quit 6-Figure Job to Avoid RTO Says Managers Are Threatened
AI
- OpenAI CEO calls for laws to mitigate ‘risks of increasingly powerful’ AI | ChatGPT | The Guardian
- Cargo Cult AI - ACM Queue
- Never Give Artificial Intelligence the Nuclear Codes - The Atlantic
- Zoo – An image playground by Replicate
- From Theory to Reality: Explaining the Best Prompt Injection Proof of Concept · rez0
- China AI Ernie Bot bans chats on Xi Jinping, Winnie the Pooh
- [2305.08596] DarkBERT: A Language Model for the Dark Side of the Internet
- Github Copilot and ChatGPT alternatives - The Pragmatic Engineer
- Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Leave the EU if There's Any Real AI Regulation
- A lawyer used ChatGPT for a legal filing. The chatbot cited nonexistent cases it just made up. | Mashable
- Statement on AI Risk | CAIS
Various
- Tyler, The Creator's Will Doesn't Allow For Posthumous Music Releases | Purple Sneakers | Trusted For Taste
- Saucon Valley must allow After School Satan Club to meet, judge rules | Lehigh Valley Regional News | wfmz.com
- Why Chatbots Are Not the Future of Interfaces
- Finnish daily uses shooter videogame to dodge Russia's press restrictions | Reuters
- Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"
- The A.I.-PR Industrial Complex: Artificial intelligence hype is impressively meaningless.
- How is it even possible to cheat on a musical performance practical exam? - The Old New Thing
- 1-bit Hokusai’s ”The Great Wave” – Hypertalking
- Paris police under fire over neo-Nazi rally
- Donald Trump sexually abused, defamed E. Jean Carroll, jury says
- Ten thousand ways to use chopsticks - Marcosticks
- Photographer admits prize-winning image was AI-generated | Sony world photography awards | The Guardian
- "Arabian Stonehenge" Uncovered in Oman Desert
- Florida removes Black Lives Matter, George Floyd content from textbook
- Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers - YouTube
- Twitter Appears to Limit Bellingcat After Elon Musk Called It 'Psyop'
- This time, it feels different - nadh.in
- Patrick Brown spent 29 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit. The survivor just helped free him | CNN
- Writing, Fragments, and the Memex Method · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer
- Danny Masterson used drugging, Scientology to get away with rape, prosecutor says | AP News
- Russia bans '500 Americans' including CNN journalists | CNN
- Saving the News From Big Tech | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Michelle Yeoh Rejects 'Everything Everywhere' Sequel - Variety
- Following UK antitrust order, Meta sells Giphy to Shutterstock for $53M after buying it for $400M | TechCrunch
- Nose Ears | Misgendering
- Sweden's 250-year-old Freedom of the Press Act gets UNESCO status - Radio Sweden | Sveriges Radio
- Huge Tesla leak reveals thousands of safety concerns, privacy problems | Ars Technica
- Sun Yuan and Peng Yu - Can’t Help Myself
- Captcha Is Asking Users to Identify Objects That Don't Exist
- Twitter Withdraws From EU Disinformation Code, Commissioner Says - Bloomberg
- 'Queen of rock 'n' roll' Tina Turner dies at 83 | Reuters
- "Suisse?" – Est-ce que les Suisses sont forts à la guerre ? - YouTube
- [2305.16941] Twitter's Algorithm: Amplifying Anger, Animosity, and Affective Polarization
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