[SC 2.4.4] Take someone up on their unsolicited offer
I wrote about what you get when you take someone up on their unsolicited offer to write a guest post for your blog.
How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact
Better idea: don't risk it at all if you can.
On Emotional Durability
h/t Sean
Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Silver lining?
Buying Sunglasses in Brazil (or how to restore commitment in bargaining)
We have so much bargaining in the United States. It is just not normally at the consumer layer like this, so consequently we don't learn these skills.
New antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria discovered in technician’s garden
Hell yeah.
Open-Source is Just That
I am sharing this through the lens of working through some of my OSS burnout.
Love in the age of conspiracy: 5 tips to deal with disinformation and political polarization in relationships
"Anecdotally, the Reddit forum QAnonCasualties has more than 280,000 members."
What If We Made Advertising Illegal?
"Ad companies are never going to regulate themselves—it's like hoping for heroin dealers to write drug laws."
Overengineered anchor links
I quite enjoyed this deep dive into way overthinking anchor links.
Color is a mathematical nightmare
Color does not want to be math, and fights us every step of the way to trap it in that way.
allow webcam
A site where you allow webcam access and it takes a photo, then adds it to the gallery.
is HTML a programming language?
"i think that when some people say that HTML is not a programming language, they are not doing so because they truly care about the theory of formal languages. instead, they're probably just saying it because they view HTML as being less important than a 'real' programming language."
How to Live Inside a Mall for 4 Years
I grew up hearing rumors third and fourthhand about this. Amazing that it's getting turned into a documentary.
New study: White people lack empathy across the socioeconomic spectrum
oh.
1996 Daihatsu Midget II Review: The Antithesis of the American Pickup
I saw one of these while out walking the dog earlier this week, and I am in love.
Yolker
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‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers
Sharing this mostly because the pile of damp cardboard that is my mediocre CEO made AI use at work mandatory for performance evaluation, a move which feels like it should be illegal.
Middle-Aged Man Trading Cards Go Viral in Rural Japan Town
Gotta catch 'em all.
Iceland built 1,756 wheelchair ramps in the past 4 years. Why can’t other countries do that?
At a certain point working in accessibility you come to internalize that the exclusion is intentional.
Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex
But enough about the web platform!
Clean energy powered 40% of global electricity in 2024, report finds
Nice!