News from last month (2023/07 edition)
2023-07-01
Last modified on 2023-06-30Programming
Web (HTML, CSS, JS, Design...)
- Future CSS: Wishes Granted by Scroll-driven Animations
- image-set() - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN
- How to Adapt Long-Page Designs for Better Scanning - Christopher Butler
- Modern CSS in Real Life - Chris Coyier
- Introducing Ezno
- Why Japanese Websites Look So Different | by Mirijam Missbichler | May, 2023 | Medium
- The origin private file system
- Modern CSS For Dynamic Component-Based Architecture | Modern CSS Solutions
- An introduction to @scope in CSS
- CSS { In Real Life } | Reducing Complexity in Front End Development
- The continuing tragedy of CSS: thoughts from CSS Day 2023 · Paul Robert Lloyd
- The gotchas of CSS Nesting | Kilian Valkhof
- Positioning anchored popovers | hidde.blog
- CSS Custom Properties Beyond the :root · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer
- Sticky content: focus in view - TetraLogical
- margin-trim as a best practice? - Chris Coyier
- Synchronize videos, 3D-models, etc. to Scroll-Driven Animations – Bram.us
- Thoughts on Svelte(Kit), one year and 3 billion requests later
- Announcing Svelte 4
- Fit-to-Width Text
- sizes=auto is a great idea - Chris Coyier
- The New CSS · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer
- A case for ClojureScript 2.0 @ tonsky.me
- The gTLDs' New Clothes - A Look at Centralization in Naked Domains
- CommonJS is hurting JavaScript
Backend & languages
- The RustConf Keynote Fiasco, explained
- ko: Easy Go Containers
- GitHub - TodePond/DreamBerd: perfect programming language
- Why Lisp Syntax Works
- Mojo 🔥: Programming language for all of AI
- Rust Module System Encourages Poor Practices (Comparing to Go) [Dmitry Frank]
- It's dangerous to go alone,
pubmodusethis.rs - Spectral Contexts in Go
- INTERCAL: Practically Impossible
- Felix Blog - Raku is pretty damn Cool
- Programming Language Perversity • Buttondown
Open source, Projects & Tools
- Datasets - MetaBrainz Foundation
- GitHub - izabera/cube.sed: best possible use of sed
- Debian -- News -- Debian 12 "bookworm" released
- DevPod - Open Source Dev-Environments-As-Code
- VineJS is a form data validation library for Node.js
Other things, good practices, thoughts etc
- Why You Should Still Love Telnet
- Git is simply too hard |> Changelog
- Using Fossil
- SpaceBadgers
- Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak
- Response to “Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak” | TheEvilSkeleton
- Modern software quality, or why I think using language models for programming is a bad idea
- Moving Blazingly Fast With The Core Vim Motions | Barbarian Meets Coding
- Tindall On Software Delays
- Convert JSON to Swift, C#, TypeScript, Objective-C, Go, Java, C++ and more<!-- --> • quicktype
- Linux Namespaces Are a Poor Man's Plan 9 Namespaces · Yotam's blog
- I Don't Need Your Query Language
- XML is the future - by Nobody has time for Python
- Oils 0.16.0 - Breaking Renames and YSH
- Counting the Hard Way
- The hardest part of building software is not coding, it's requirements - Stack Overflow Blog
- The Story Behind Last Week's Let's Encrypt Downtime
- Advanced macOS Commands - saurabhs.org
- The massive bug at the heart of the npm ecosystem
- All You Need Is Cody
- The AWK Programming Language, Second Edition
- GitLab’s AI-assisted Code Suggestions | GitLab
- Introducing English as the New Programming Language for Apache Spark | Databricks Blog
Science
- James Webb telescope: Icy moon Enceladus spews massive water plume - BBC News
- Intelligent brains take longer to solve difficult problems - News - BIH at Charité
- Eastern philosophy says there is no "self." Science agrees - Big Think
- Planet that shouldn’t exist found | Ars Technica
- NANOGrav hears “hum” of gravitational wave background, louder than expected | Ars Technica
Social, Society, Psychology, Rights
- » Tomb Raider The Digital Antiquarian
- Saudi astronauts to blast off on May 21, first Arab woman at International Space Station
- How genetics determine our life choices - BBC Future
- ‘Much easier to say no’: Irish town unites in smartphone ban for young children | Smartphones | The Guardian
- Long Covid can impair quality of life more than advanced cancers, study says | Long Covid | The Guardian
- My personal framework for flourishing
- In post-Roe US, clinical trials may be too risky during pregnancy | Ars Technica
- Are Drag Queens Coming For Your Kids?? – SOME MORE NEWS - YouTube
- Drugmakers Are Abandoning Cheap Generics, and Now US Cancer Patients Can’t Get Meds | KFF Health News
En français / In French:
- Rokhaya Diallo lance un atelier de prise de parole féministe
- Ctrl+Alt+Depression (Manon Gruaz) - YouTube
Privacy
- Criminalization of encryption : the 8 december case – La Quadrature du Net
- 10 Years After Snowden: Some Things Are Better, Some We’re Still Fighting For | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Work
- Minute Rice, Minute Text, Minute Websites - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
- Musk refused to pay annual bonuses promised to Twitter employees, lawsuit says | Ars Technica
- Market & Opportunity Explorer for Devs · Fossfox
- No Handoff – We can stop throwing our work over the fence
AI
- An explosion in software engineers using AI coding tools? - The Pragmatic Engineer
- Generative AI Takes Stereotypes and Bias From Bad to Worse
- AI: First New UI Paradigm in 60 Years
- Stanford CRFM
- Stability AI launches SDXL 0.9: A Leap Forward in AI Image Generation — Stability AI
- What Are The Real Dangers Of A.I.? – SOME MORE NEWS - YouTube
- Is it too late to fix the problem of AI clutter on the web? | Christian Heilmann
- Long Sequence Modeling with XGen: A 7B LLM Trained on 8K Input Sequence Length
- The EU hasn’t got its AI Act together yet - The Verge
Various
- Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good. · Reproof
- Workers use medieval methods on Notre Dame | Popular Science
- Reddit sparks outrage after a popular app developer said it wants him to pay $20 million a year for data access | CNN Business
- France legally bans short-haul flights - here's how it works
- Apple's Vision Pro headset deserves to be ridiculed
- Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA | TechCrunch
- 21st-century editors should keep their hands off 20th-century books
- Some blogging myths
- Apollo’s developer on Reddit’s new API changes, and why users revolted - The Verge
- Stop Calling Each New Disaster “The New Normal” | The Walrus
- Reddit CEO calls unpaid moderators' concerns "noise" - time to send a message he won't forget. - YouTube
- Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion | Ars Technica
- How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)
- Critics Say Submersible Should’ve Been Tested With Poorer Passengers First
- Person who made the Windows 3.1 port of Wordle is back with a ChatGPT client | Ars Technica
- Fast machines, slow machines - Julio Merino (jmmv.dev)
- xkcd: Alphabet Notes
- Collection - Van Gogh Museum
- Overly Grand Manners: Volker Hermes Exaggerates Historical Portraits with Ostentatious Absurdity — Colossal
- Why Write?
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