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- Norway rolls back EV incentives while boosting walking and cycling
- Norway is set to make another move toward a greener future by rolling back EV exemptions while promoting walking, cycling, and taking the bus.
- 17 Real-Life Would-You-Rathers I, a Woman, Have Had to Ask Myself
- Axe-con 2023 Schedule
- conference that welcomes developers, designers, business users, and accessibility professionals of all experience levels focused on building, testing, and maintaining accessible digital experiences.
- ‘Everyone should be concerned’: Antarctic sea ice reaches lowest levels ever recorded
- With the continent holding enough ice to raise sea levels by many metres if it was to melt, polar scientists are scrambling for answers
- Can We Make Bicycles Sustainable Again?
- Cycling is the most sustainable form of transportation, but the bicycle is becoming increasingly damaging to the environment. The energy and material used for its production go up while its life expectancy decreases.
- Rural populist party emerges as big winner in Dutch elections
- I have no words.. :-(
- Gapminder
- Our mission is to fight devastating ignorance with a fact-based worldview everyone can understand.
- 'Father Of Gynecology,' Who Experimented On Slaves, No Longer On Pedestal In NYC
- Explainer: How gender inequality and climate change are interconnected
- Ancient DNA upends European prehistory
- Genes reveal striking diversity within similar ice age cultures
- The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how to code
- The EU is going to task a standardisation body to write a document that tells everyone marketing products and software in the EU how to code securely.
- Spaghettify
- A Visual Studio Code extension to make your code spaghetti. 🍝
- Migrating from Eleventy to Kirby
- List of inventors killed by their own invention - Wikipedia
- Stephen Fry: Willem and Frieda – Defying the Nazis review
- Fry lovingly brings to life the incredible adventures of two war heroes, whose all-night forgery parties fuelled by booze and amphetamines saved thousands of Jews
- The Godfather and Frank Sinatra's Real History with the Mafia
- The Godfather’s Johnny Fontane was a mix of a few Italian singers, but only one chairman of the board…
- Zwerfvuil rapen met de gratis app van HelemaalGroen.
- Ellen Barkin Recalls Being 'Ripped Apart Physically' Early In Her Career
- The "Poker Face" actor isn't afraid to speak about her awful experiences in Hollywood. "I am 68 years old," Barkin said. "I'm fresh out of all my f**ks."
- From clothes to tech, why is everything so poorly made?
- How the cult of consumerism ushered in an era of badly made products.
- A Look at Gender Demographics in the Developer Community
- Responsive Headlines Are About to Get Awesome
- Use text-wrap: balance to distributes text more evenly between lines
- 'Arc is the best web browser to come out in the last decade'
- Chrome has suppressed everyone for too long. The Browser Company and CEO Josh Miller are making Arc, a new and better web browser that’s prettier, more powerful, and actually fun to use.
- Same Energy | Visual Search Engine
- use it to find beautiful art, photography, decoration ideas, or anything else.
- Setting up a screen reader testing environment on your computer
- I don’t want to log in to your website
- The web is becoming a miserable experience because some salesbro who is trying to meet his KPIs is doing stuff to marginally increase the number of paying customers.
- blaise-io/contribution
- CLI tool to draw an image on your GitHub contribution graph.
- Secrets of the Sisterhood
- the key cast of Women Talking on humor as a survival tool
- FeedSeer
- keep up with the links and news that are being discussed on your Mastodon Feed.
- Signal would 'walk' from UK if Online Safety Bill undermined encryption
- The encrypted-messaging app Signal has said it would stop providing services in the UK if a new law undermined encryption.
- The return to the office could be the real reason for the slump in productivity
- Here’s the data to prove it
- 20 Genre-Defying Sci-Fi Books That Broke the Mold
- OneZoom Tree of Life Explorer
- The modern web’s underrated powerhouse
- It’s one of the most important yet under-appreciated building blocks of the internet.
- How just 25 oil companies are set to blow the 1.5°C carbon budget
- Container queries land in stable browsers
- ‘A growing threat to human health’: we are ill-equipped for the dangers of fungal infections
- About 2 million people die a year as a result of a core group of fungi, and the WHO is concerned we are unprepared for the future
- I just wanted to buy pants. How excessive JavaScript is costing you money
- A cautionary tale about our over dependence on client-side JavaScript.
- Uitdrukkingen | Genootschap Onze Taal
- Every Noise at Once
- ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed by Spotify
- Hidden harms of indoor air pollution — five steps to expose them
- Dirty outdoor air might grab the headlines, but learning how pollutants inside buildings form, accumulate and affect our health is equally crucial.
- Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count
- “As the adage goes, ‘you ship your org chart,’” said one current employee. “It’s chaos here right now, so we’re shipping chaos.”
- Layoffs.fyi
- Tech Layoff Tracker and Startup Layoff Lists
- Want to Delete Your Twitter DMs? Good Luck With That
- People in Europe are making GDPR requests to have their private messages erased, but Elon’s team is ignoring them.
- The Market for Lemons
- New web services are being built to a self-defeatingly low UX and performance standard, and existing experiences are now pervasively re-developed on unspeakably slow, JS-taxed stacks. At a business level, this is a disaster, raising the question: why are new teams buying into stacks that have failed so often before?
- Public Transit Gets Left Behind in US Climate Change Conversation
- Solomon Perel, Jew who posed as Hitler Youth to survive war, dies at 97
- His Holocaust story was dramatized in the 1990 film “Europa Europa.”
- Twitter to remove free API access in latest money making quest
- Pricing has not been disclosed but more details should arrive next week
- The self-fulfilling prophecy of React
- The only thing React is better at than other front-end frameworks is being popular. So how long will that self-perpetuating cycle continue?
- Wonders of Street View
- Explore the weird and wonderful things on Google Street View
- Bird flu outbreak at Spanish mink farm triggers pandemic fears
- Spread among captive mink could give the H5N1 strain opportunities to evolve and adapt to mammals
- Bike helmets: what the science really says about an American safety obsession.
- How Solid Pods May End Up Becoming the Building Blocks of the Metaverse
- Archaeologists Discover 1.2 Million-Year-Old 'Workshop' in Mind-Blowing Find
- The discovery pushes the timeline of obsidian tool use back by an astonishing 500,000 years
- Zorgen Amnesty over arrestaties klimaatdemonstranten
- Elk - A nimble Mastodon web client
- Language Squad
- Language Identification Game with Audio and Script Samples
- Web resilience is about users – not a shortcut for developers
- Front-end is so much more than building designs
- The Case for Abolishing Elections
- They may seem the cornerstone of democracy, but in reality they do little to promote it. There's a far better way to empower ordinary citizens: democracy by lottery.
- Back to the future: how Mastodon is restoring the lost art of online conversation
- The new social network with its interconnected ‘fediverse’ is a welcome alternative to blustering rival Twitter and Elon Musk
- A Marxist View of Tolkien’s Middle Earth
- J. R. R. Tolkien’s fantasy world is a medieval utopia with poverty and oppression airbrushed out of the picture. But Tolkien’s work also contains a romantic critique of industrial capitalism that is an important part of its vast popular appeal.
- Wikipedia Gets a Fresh New Look
- First Desktop Update in a Decade Puts Usability at the Forefront
- A look back at trends from the 1973 IKEA catalogue
- Juliane Koepcke: A Plane Crash and 11 Days in the Jungle
- Twitter Intentionally Ends Third-Party App Developer Access to Its APIs
- Don’t Ban ChatGPT in Schools. Teach With It.
- OpenAI’s new chatbot is raising fears of cheating on homework, but its potential as an educational tool outweighs its risks.
- Study: Exxon Mobil accurately predicted warming since 1970s
- Sendmentions and Commentions
- webmention plugins for Kirby 3
- The Year of the Personal Website
- The year in which we launch our first site or redesign our old one, publish a little more often, and add RSS and Webmentions to our websites so that we can write posts back and forth.
- Don’t Equate Story Points to Hours
- If someone in your company wants to peg story points to hours, just stop calling them points and use hours or days instead.