[SC 2.4.4] Speaking of links
I've got a lot of links for this week!
Speaking of links, I have calendar events for each time I publish something, to remind me that I did it. If you're interested, I also set up a Mastodon account that shares links to them out on the same day they were originally published.
A new generation is uncovering the tiny doodles left by engineers on old microchips
Tiny art in places you wouldn't expect!
How a baker survived the Titanic sinking by getting really drunk
I would pay money to see this animated, Tex Avery-style.
In China, 2,500-year-old evidence of cannabis smoking
"There’s no guarantee recreational use of this plant originated at Jirzankal Cemetery, but in at least some respects, it seems the ancient Chinese may have been ahead of the cannabis curve."
America’s Nuclear Sponge
What the hell.
A single atom layer of gold – LiU researchers create goldene
Woah.
On reliable technology
"Innovation is great, but without reliability, it scarcely means anything."
AI Computing Is on Pace to Consume More Energy Than India, Arm Says
Stop this reality, I want to get off.
POV: Humility is seemingly in short supply in the design industry. What’s really behind this?
Normalize talking about your failures is what I'm saying.
How social networks prey on our longing to be known
I had the pleasure and the privilege of reading this as a draft, and Jan threads the needle so well on bringing receipts to put words to feelings I knew I had but couldn't fully articulate.
Voicemail INBOX
Delivers what it promises!
Front-end development’s identity crisis
Yeah.
Our Uniquely American Drug Shortages
"This is a known problem that we have decided not to solve for a few decades, because of the influence of big-money middlemen. People die as collateral damage."
Analyzing The Code From The Terminator’s HUD
I love that any time you put code in media people will inevitably try and decipher it.
What's Up With That: Building Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic Worse
Free metaphor for website performance concerns!
You are the fuel that energises Elon Musk’s hate machine
I miss what I used to have on Twitter, but seeing industry-famous folks continuing to prop this hate machine up makes me feel sick.
Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event
"Last time this happened, Earth got plants."
I love programming but I hate the programming industry
"Essentially, the concept of critical thinking has been made anathema to engineering: as a programmer you are to focus solely on the how, rarely on the what, and certainly never on the why."
Google fires more employees over protest of cloud contract with Israel
And speaking of interrogating the why.
AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO'
Screaming that they called it ReplyGuy.
Carl Sagan, nuking the moon, and not nuking the moon
Thanks, Carl Sagan!
“read, write, own” web
"Though, the opposite was the truth, the web before platformization was the place where users owned, wrote and also read."
The Man Who Killed Google Search
Damn.
Search BioNumbers - The Database of Useful Biological Numbers
I love the internet for things like this.
FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes
Hell yeah.