News from last month (2023/09 edition)
2023-09-01
Last modified on 2023-09-01Programming
Web (HTML, CSS, JS, Design...)
- Resume and pause animations in CSS — Amit Merchant — A blog on PHP, JavaScript, and more
- If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them? | daverupert.com
- Why Are You Still Here, Mr Module?
- Just normal web things.
- "Web Environment Integrity" is an all-out attack on the free Internet — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software
- Designing Accessible Text Over Images: Best Practices, Techniques, And Resources (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
- Typograms
- Knip: An Automated Tool For Finding Unused Files, Exports, And Dependencies — Smashing Magazine
- Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React - Josh Collinsworth blog
- Impossible⁉️ CSS only syntax highlighting 😱 ...with a single element and GRADIENTS 🤯 - DEV Community
- The endpoint of Web Environment Integrity is a closed Web
- Use web components for what they’re good at | Read the Tea Leaves
- </> htmx ~ Why htmx Does Not Have a Build Step
- 7 reasons to replace advanced search with filters so users can easily find what they need – Adam Silver – designer, London, UK
- The New CSS Math: round()
- Accessible Palette: Create color systems with consistent lightness and contrast
- Announcing Biome
- Astro 3.0 | Astro
- GitHub - bpierre/dnum: 🧮 Small library for big decimal numbers.
En français / In French:
Backend & languages
- What's up, Python? The GIL removed, a new compiler, optparse deprecated...
- The proposal to enhance Go's HTTP router
- Nim v2.0 released - Nim Blog
- Trying Odin
- What’s New in Go 1.21 a Comprehensive Notes | by Younis Jad | Lyonas | Jul, 2023 | Medium
- Things I'm excited for in Go 1.21 | Seth Vargo
- What's in a Module? · thunderseethe's devlog
- Dealing with Pandas's nullable float dtypes
- Name before type: why 'age int' is better than 'int age'
- Haunting Down Errors in Go
- Go 1.21 Release Notes - The Go Programming Language
- Java 21: what’s new ? | Loic's Blog
- Understanding Go 1.21 generics type inference – Encore Blog
- Backward Compatibility, Go 1.21, and Go 2 - The Go Programming Language
- State of standardized lock files for Python: August 2023
- Structured Logging with slog - The Go Programming Language
- Rust Malware Staged on Crates.io
- On Using Go's
t.Parallel()
Open source, Projects & Tools
- Lazygit Turns 5: Musings on Git, TUIs, and Open Source – Pursuit Of Laziness – A blog by Jesse Duffield
- GitHub - phoboslab/wipeout-rewrite
- Launch Talk · Veilid
- nb · command line and local web plain text note-taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base application
- PhobosLab
- FFmpeg Explorer!
Other things, good practices, thoughts etc
- TeamTopologies
- GitHub - martinvonz/jj: A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful
- Try installing from source first
- Building a pivot table in SQLite
- The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free? | WIRED
- Throw away your first draft of your code | nicole@web
- 5 Things I've Learned in 20 Years of Programming - DaedTech
- Vim Boss - Neovim
- Squeeze the hell out of the system you have – Dan Slimmon
- macOS defaults list
- Terraform is dead; Long live Pulumi?
- Kernighan and Pike were right: Do one thing, and do it well | by Keaton Brandt | Source and Buggy | Jul, 2023 | Medium
- Software Component Names Should Be Whimsical And Cryptic | by Aaron Zinger | Better Programming
- No one actually wants simplicity - lukeplant.me.uk
- PSA: Add dir="auto" to your inputs and textareas. | Mo — Pure...
- OpenTF Foundation
- 72-Year-Old C++ Creator Bjarne Stroustrup Shares Life Advice - Slashdot
- milen.me — Premature Optimization: Universally Misunderstood
- Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey
- RFC 3339 vs ISO 8601
Science
- ESA - Euclid test images tease of riches to come
- Experimental Alzheimer's Vaccine Shows Promise in Mice
- Ryugu samples reveal traces of rock from before the Sun existed | Ars Technica
- 'Unbelievable': Astronomer Claims 'Direct Evidence' of Gravity Breaking Down
- LK-99 isn’t a superconductor — how science sleuths solved the mystery
- Japanese scientists may have unraveled the secret of aging resistance in naked mole-rats
- Atlatl Weapon Use by Prehistoric Females Equalized the Division of Labor While Hunting: Kent State Archaeology Professors Led the Experimental Study | Kent State University
- CCNY scientists trap light inside a magnet | The City College of New York
- Why the empty atom picture misunderstands quantum theory | Aeon Essays
- Study identifies taste receptors that give our feline friends a craving for meat—and one fish in particular
- Scientists find way to wipe a cell's memory to reprogram it as a stem cell
Social, Society, Psychology, Rights
- DOC • Taste
- The Onion founder reveals tips for boosting creativity | Boing Boing
- Why Don’t We Dream About Our Smartphones?
- Women are superstars on stage, but still rarely get to write songs
- The Psychological Depths of Rock-Paper-Scissors | The MIT Press Reader
- I'm OK; The Bull Is Dead | Computerworld
- Carrot Problems
- People Are Having Sex in Robotaxis. Nobody Is Talking About It
- 😳 Why it's so hard to take a break?
En français / In French:
- "Nous savions que ça finirait par arriver" : en Italie, la traque des familles homoparentales par le gouvernement de Giorgia Meloni a commencé
- Arrête de chercher le racisme chez les autres. Il est en toi aussi.
Privacy
- Meta loses battle in EU, will ask for consent to show personalized ads [Updated] | Ars Technica
- Evasive Phishing Tactic Utilizes Google AMP | Cofense
- The Impending Privacy Threat of Self-Driving Cars | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Your Computer Should Say What You Tell It To Say | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- TunnelCrack: Widespread design flaws in VPN clients
- “Please do not make it public”: Vulnerabilities in Sogou Keyboard encryption expose keypresses to network eavesdropping - The Citizen Lab
- Open Terms Archive
- Proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty Threatens to be an Expansive Global Surveillance Pact | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Apple, Long a Critic of Right to Repair, Comes Out in Support of California Bill | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- A Brazilian phone spyware was hacked and victims’ devices 'deleted' from server | TechCrunch
En français / In French:
- Révoltes et réseaux sociaux : le retour du coupable idéal – La Quadrature du Net
- Vous postez des photos de vos enfants sur internet ? On vous explique ce qu'est le "sharenting" et pourquoi cette pratique inquiète
- L’arrivée de Meta sur le fédivers est-elle une bonne nouvelle ? – La Quadrature du Net
- Sept questions pour comprendre le Digital Services Act, qui va désormais encadrer les géants du web
Work
- Retrospective Prompts
- Point of no return: Australians fight for the right to work from home permanently | Reuters
- Many people feel they work in pointless, meaningless jobs, research confirms
- Do Something, So We Can Change It! - Allen Pike
- Remote work requires communicating more, less frequently | Ben Balter
- 80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans
- Executive Function Theft – Hedgehog Librarian
- ‘No reward or recognition’: why women should say no to ‘office housework’ | Women | The Guardian
- You don't hate JIRA, you hate your manager - Derek Jarvis' Blog
- Don't Fire Your Illustrator | Sam Bleckley
- Broken Ownership - Alex Ewerlöf Notes
- Zoom's Pivot: CEO Explains Why Employees Must Return to Office
- Zoom’s CEO thinks Zoom sucks for building trust, leaked audio reveals | Ars Technica
- Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: ‘It’s probably not going to work out’ - The Verge
- How to pass a coding interview with me | Robert Heaton
- When your coworker does great work, tell their manager
AI
- Mozilla Foundation - Openness & AI: Fostering Innovation & Accountability in the EU’s AI Act
- ChatGPT is great – you’re just using it wrong - Big Think
- AI Won’t Replace Humans — But Humans With AI Will Replace Humans Without AI
- Unmasking Hypnotized AI: The Hidden Risks of Large
- Catching up on the weird world of LLMs
- AI fears overblown? Theoretical physicist calls chatbots 'glorified tape recorders' | CNN Business
- How hackers at the Def Con conference tried to break AI chatbots : NPR
- AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted, rules a US federal judge - The Verge
- StableVideo: Text-driven Consistency-aware Diffusion Video Editing
- AI unlikely to destroy most jobs, but clerical workers at risk, ILO says | Reuters
- Google Search AI Gives Ridiculous, Wrong Answers
- AI Can’t Read Books. It’s Reviewing Them Anyway | WIRED
- Hacking animal communication with AI
- How an Iowa School District Used ChatGPT to Ban Books | WIRED
- OpenAI disputes authors’ claims that every ChatGPT response is a derivative work | Ars Technica
En français / In French:
- Des chercheurs découvrent un moyen simple de faire en sorte qu'une IA ignore ses garde-fous et diffuse des contenus interdits, l'exploit affecte aussi bien ChatGPT que ses rivaux Bard et Claude
- « Cela m'a complètement détruite » : un modérateur kényan révèle les conditions inhumaines de son travail pour OpenAI et Sama, qui violent les droits humains
Various
- Officials bust illegal lab containing 20 infectious agents, hundreds of lab mice | Ars Technica
- Worldcoin: a solution in search of its problem
- Elon Musk’s X sues anti-hate researchers for allegedly scraping data from Twitter - The Verge
- “The Famous F40” vector illustration by David Rumfelt ⌘I Get Info
- Steam On Linux Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS - Phoronix
- New Woodblock Prints of Hokusai’s Previously Unpublished “Book of Everything”
- X sues hate speech researchers whose “scare campaign” spooked Twitter advertisers | Ars Technica
- The First Draft of Anything Is Shit – Quote Investigator®
- Hip Hop’s Surprising, Never-Ending Evolutions | WIRED
- Japan prefectures drift away from posting disaster warnings on X - The Japan Times
- The Hip Hop Historians Who Are Racing to Preserve Its Story | WIRED
- Teens Hacked Boston Subway’s CharlieCard to Get Infinite Free Rides—and This Time Nobody Got Sued | WIRED
- Micro benevolences
- Record Labels Hit Internet Archive With New $400m+ Copyright Lawsuit * TorrentFreak
- The Most Iconic Hip-Hop Sample of Every Year (1973-2023)
- Let Venice Sink | WIRED
- ‘Flying Aliens’ Harassing Village in Peru Are Actually Illegal Miners With Jetpacks, Cops Say
- The winning 14 posters for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games span subject matter, style, and media.
- Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Coca-Cola front group | Coca-Cola | The Guardian
- Why Do Old Books Smell So Good? – ScienceSwitch
- You can redo your life, but you have to die first | Sci-Fi Short Film: "CTRL Z" - YouTube
- Saints Row, Red Faction studio Volition closes suddenly after 30 years | Ars Technica
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