News from last month (2023/08 edition)
2023-08-01
Last modified on 2023-09-01Programming
Web (HTML, CSS, JS, Design...)
- Chris's Wiki :: blog/web/CoolUrlsKeepTheirContents
- Draggable objects
- Doing some GLSL, again | 0gust1's notes
- Is React Having An Angular.js Moment?
- The case against self-closing tags in HTML - JakeArchibald.com
- A Deep Dive Into SVG Path Commands
- Realtime Colors
- CSS only floating labels · Muffin Man
- New Viewport Units - Ahmad Shadeed
- CSS { In Real Life } | Video: Modern CSS Layout is Awesome
- keyboards and web apps, my post/rant for the year - Things.
- Pulling my site from Google over AI training – Tracy Durnell
- Licensing site content using a text file
- The new @font-face syntax
- Implementing Tic Tac Toe with 170mb of HTML - no JS or CSS | Blog - PortSwigger
- Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web | Ars Technica
- Web Components Aren’t Components
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Backend & languages
- Beyond functional programming: a taste of Verse. Simon Peyton Jones & Tim Sweeney | Lambda Days 2023 - YouTube
- research!rsc: Coroutines for Go
- Ten Years of “Go: The Good, the Bad, and the Meh” · The Ethically-Trained Programmer
- LinkedIn Adopts Protocol Buffers for Microservices Integration and Reduces Latency by up to 60%
- Preview: ranging over functions in Go - Eli Bendersky's website
Open source, Projects & Tools
- Home - FerretDB
- Seriously, don't sign a CLA
- Lets-Plot: open-source plotting library for statistical data
Other things, good practices, thoughts etc
- Zero-downtime schema migrations in Postgres using Reshape – Fabian Lindfors
- ldd(1) and untrusted binaries - Julio Merino (jmmv.dev)
- Names should be as short as possible while still being clear
- A slack clone in 5 lines of bash
- Let's debug a kubernetes pod locally · Ahmet Enes Bayraktar
- Open source with profanity in comments is statistically better than code without profanity | From Linux
- GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) Review
- ZeroVer: 0-based Versioning — zer0ver
- The Most Powerful Law in Software - by Thorsten Ball
- My baby steps with Couchbase
- Can a Rubik's Cube be brute-forced?
- Escaping CMS hell into CMS heaven · breakfast oatmeal
- The 11 Aspects of Good Code | Path-Sensitive
- I'm moving my projects off GitHub | nicole@web
- RFC 9420 aka Messaging Layer Security (MLS) – An Overview
- Sweary Lightweight Agile Planning
Science
- How DNA is copied
- The ants go marching … methodically | University of Arizona News
- Astronomers solve mystery of how a mirror-like planet formed so close to its star | Ars Technica
- What did Stonehenge sound like? - BBC Travel
- ‘Not always king’: fossil shows mammal sinking teeth into dinosaur | Dinosaurs | The Guardian
Social, Society, Psychology, Rights
- Twitter faces legal challenge after failing to remove reported hate tweets | Twitter | The Guardian
- Weight Obsession Is Ruining Everyone's Health – SOME MORE NEWS - YouTube
- FDA approves the first over-the-counter birth control pill | Ars Technica
- Phones with replaceable batteries to be required by 2027 thanks to the EU
- OpenBenches Welcome!
- When People Assume You’re Not In Charge Because You’re a Woman
En français / In French:
Privacy
- France set to allow police to spy through phones
- Remarks by Commissioner Breton: Here are the first 7 potential “Gatekeepers” under the EU Digital Markets Act
- Norway has had it with Meta, threatens $100K fines for data violations | Ars Technica
En français / In French:
Work
- Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued | Kalzumeus Software
- Turning my Passion/Hobby into a Business Made Me Hate It – Shantnu's Silent Site
- Leading Successful Product Teams | Ariel Salminen
- When Work Didn't Follow You Home - Cal Newport
- The workers at the frontlines of the AI revolution - Rest of World
- Letting Go Of Frustration
En français / In French:
AI
- A human just defeated an AI in Go. Here's why that matters
- The Lone Banana Problem. Or, the new programming: “speaking” AI - TL;DR - Digital Science
- AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born - The Verge
- Generative AI Policy Must Be Precise, Careful, and Practical: How to Cut Through the Hype and Spot Potential Risks in New Legislation | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement - The Verge
- PoisonGPT: How we hid a lobotomized LLM on Hugging Face to spread fake news
- AI translates 5,000-year-old cuneiform tablets instantly - Big Think
- Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI
- Adactio: Articles—“Web3” and “AI”
- Clipdrop Launches Stable Doodle — Stability AI
- Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI
- The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training
- AI bias may be easier to fix than humanity’s. Here's why | World Economic Forum
- AI Loses Its Mind After Being Trained on AI-Generated Data
- China mandates that AI must follow “core values of socialism” - The Verge
- Meta’s LLaMa 2 license is not Open Source - Voices of Open Source
Various
- Exile journalists map - fleeing to Europe and North America | RSF
- Write plain text files | Derek Sivers
- Why I Keep a Research Blog
- Telegram has become a window into war - The Verge
- Musk sues law firm because he’s mad that Twitter paid $90 million bill | Ars Technica
- The mathematically correct way to tie your shoes - Big Think
- 87% of classic games are out of print. That’s a problem for gaming history. | Ars Technica
- Tom and Jerry (All 114 Episodes) (Pitch Restored) : Warner Bros. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
- Billionaire Philanthropy Is Kind Of A Scam - SOME MORE NEWS - YouTube
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