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- 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.
- Pandemic: Are We Safe Now?
- 'The Color Of Dreams': Museum Releases Photos Of A Vanished World
- Stunning color images recently made available by a French museum capture much of the globe as it was transformed by technology and geopolitics 100 years ago.
- 200+ of the Most Amazing Vegetarian Recipes
- This collection of vegetarian recipes contains more than 200 meatless options including breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks.
- Riddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable?
- Researchers have discovered ancient Roman concrete-manufacturing strategies that incorporated self-healing. Applying this knowledge toward modern cement production, they hope to improve the material’s environmental impact.
- Robert Plant on His Best Music and Led Zeppelin
- “We can do without the mystery and just talk about the crazy things that happened. All’s well that ends well.”
- Women used to dominate the beer industry – until the witch accusations started pouring in
- Today, beer is marketed to men and the industry is run by men. It wasn’t always that way.
- Meta is being sued for $2 billion for exacerbating Ethiopia's civil war
- This is not the first time the social network has been accused of fanning hateful and violent speech
- Jabal: the new wheat scientists say can withstand extreme heat and drought
- The variety is a cross between commercial and wild wheats – bred in a bid to develop crops that are more resilient to the climate crisis
- 12 best ways to get cars out of cities – ranked by new research
- A new study finds congestion charging and creating car-free streets and separated bike lanes have been most effective at reducing car use in European cities.
- Dame Vivienne Westwood obituary
- Fashion designer who from punk origins created an international brand with a dissident edge
- Fourteen Discoveries Made About Human Evolution in 2022
- Smithsonian paleoanthropologists reveal the year’s most riveting findings about our close relatives and ancestors
- ffconf talks
- Web development & JavaScript conference in Brighton, UK
- Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634)
- The founder of the Dutch winter landscape
- Picturing Winter, a Solstice Celebration | Tor.com
- On this Solstice Day, with so few hours of sunshine to warm us, I asked a number of artists to send me some of their favorite winter paintings.
- Does Your Product Actually Need Dark Mode?
- Best Of 2022 – Last Rites Combined Staff Top 25