[SC 2.4.4] Mine features 100% more vegetable
I wrote about my feelings around what to do when systems fail you as an author who writes in good faith for the open web.
I especially like Matt Wilcox's take on it, although mine features 100% more vegetable.
Mathematicians Are Excited About a Newly Discovered Shape
New shape dropped.
BBC Sound Effects
An archive of sound effects used by the BBC!
The quiet return of eugenics
"The new eugenics will shortly be with us, although it will not describe itself as such. It will be described with euphemisms such as ‘genetic enhancement’ or ‘genetic health’."
Tetris Font
https://erikdemaine.org/fonts/tetris/?text=%3E256+J%40F+%3D%40%40%3C&rot=1
Sir Raymond Unwin - London Remembers
"The urban designers Raymond Unwin and Barry Parker walked apart in a field until they could no longer see each other’s nipples through their shirts. The two men measured the distance between them to be 70ft (21 metres), and this became the distance that is still used today, 120 years later, to dictate how far apart many British homes should be built."
This Place Serves UAE’s Biggest Croissant & Cappuccino & Here’s What We Think
I NEED ONE
Thrift store shopper bought an ‘old-ish’ vase for $3.99. It turned out to be a priceless 2,000-year-old Mayan artifact
Just finding a beautiful, ancient artifact while thrifting, as one does.
Hot in Here: Heat Waves, Climate Change, and Disability
"Climate change presents a significant challenge that will continue to shape our world, and we must ensure that our responses are inclusive and equitable."
Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”
Ah, the FO part of FIFO.
Pivoting From React to Native DOM APIs: A Real World Example
Most things don't need a VDOM, or if they do, React.
Bubble Sort...in PURE CSS? [No JS]
And to prove that, here's bubble sorting in pure CSS.
ChatGPT is biased against resumes with credentials that imply a disability — but it can improve
oh.
Planet Nine: Is the search for this elusive world nearly over?
This is wild, hole crap.
The 1994 Street Fighter Movie Is Still Making Money 30 Years Later
Good for it!
Curating my Corner of the Internet with a freehand web editor
"TLDR; I've been using an abandonware WYSIWYG web editor called Hotglue to make frivolous, truly drag-and-drop websites with no regard for users other than myself. It has been a lot of fun."
MTV News Website Goes Dark, Archives Pulled Offline
That is a ton of cultural history vanished for really small and petty reasons.
Gun violence is now a public health crisis. What does that actually mean?
How awful that it had to go so far to get to this point.
What if quitting your terrible job would help the economy
Hear me out: what if people wanted to be at their job?
Lawsuit Accuses NASDAQ-listed AudioEye CEO and its Executive Chairman of Stock Manipulation
Never forget: Accessibility overlays are trash made by trash people for trash reasons that cause harm at scale.
US social security will no longer deny disability claims based on ability to work outdated jobs
It only took 33 years!
CSS is actually “Turing Complete”
Old gold.