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Theremin

Play your own musical synth with delay, feedback & scuzz

MeFi: Goodreads for Film, but Actually Good

Film social media site Letterboxd is growing rapidly amid the pandemic and the explosion of streaming options. Is Letterboxd Becoming a Blockbuster? (NYT/Archive.is) and The Future of Film Talk? (The Ringer). Check out Letterboxd’s 2020 Year in Review, with the site’s highest rated and most popular films, plus weirder categories like most obsessively rewatched and most loved to hate. Previously.

Shuffle

An online editor for busy developers

Build templates from library of UI components grouped into 20 most frequently used categories including navigations, headers and more. Choose the right components and focus on the details.

Trump’s Twitter and Facebook ban is already working. Here’s how we know.

Election misinformation is down since Trump was deplatformed.

The great bicycle boom of 2020

Throughout lockdown, rusty bikes were dusted off in garages around the world and sales of new bikes surged. The question is now: can it last?

Best Alternatives to Gmail for Personal and Business Use

Check out the best alternatives to Gmail in 2021 that are privacy-oriented and reliable. Learn about pros and cons of each Gmail alternative solution.

Signal outage is keeping messages from sending

The app experienced an influx of new users in the last week

'Rent-a-person who does nothing' in Tokyo receives endless requests, gratitude

“I’m glad I was able to take a walk with someone while keeping a comfortable distance, where we didn’t have to talk but could if we wanted to,” one user wrote.

Decoding the hate symbols seen at the Capitol insurrection

From Viking hammers to flags of fictional countries, many rioters shared an inside visual handshake to acknowledge their white nationalist identity. Here’s where it came from.

What covering heavy metal taught me about spotting Nazis

A bare-chested, wild-eyed white man in bearskin furs and a horned helmet stood at the podium of the Senate chambers, his fists raised in triumph, as fellow Trump-supporting rioters laid waste to the Capitol.

TikTok Is Now Obsessed With Sea Shanties, And It's So Wholesome

🎶 SOON MAY THE WELLERMAN COME 🎶

MeFi: Hashtag: seashanty

A small way in which 2021 is actually better than 2020, is that TikTok’s new add-on feature allows you to take a video of a dude singing a sea shanty and add your own voice (or instrument) to it. (All twitter links)

Are You A Middle-Aged Millennial? Take Our Quiz & Find Out!

It is my great sorrow to inform you that you are now on the young side of old.

Metal Alone Cannot Unite Us

The misguided rush for commonality in the face of tragedy.

A Complete Guide to CSS Functions

Like any other programming language, CSS has functions. They can be inserted where you’d place a value, or in some cases, accompanying another value declaration.

What I've Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry

Despite all this change, many principles that have helped me throughout my career haven’t changed and continue to be relevant.

GoogleChrome/lighthouse-ci

Automate running Lighthouse for every commit, viewing the changes, and preventing regressions

Maximally optimizing image loading for the web in 2021

In this post I'll outline 8 image loading optimization techniques to minimize both the bandwidth used for loading images on the web and the CPU usage for image display.

MeFi: Corporate Censorship of a Would-Be Autocrat

After Trump’s coup attempt, Twitter has finally kicked the president off rather than give him a stern time out. Apple has threatened to pull Parler from the App store, and Google has already followed through. Despite Trump actually being the government (with a press office), and all of these being private companies, should tech have so much power to censor communication? Does deplatforming work on a whole ideology rather than an individual?

Onze monarchie is een overgangsvorm terug naar de republiek

Koning: De populariteit van de monarchie is op een dieptepunt. Niet erg, zegt Nelleke Noordervliet, het is toch al een anachronisme.

Inside the Capitol siege: How barricaded lawmakers and aides sounded urgent pleas for help as police lost control

During the rampage, rioters came perilously close to penetrating the inner sanctums of the building while lawmakers were still there.