2017

World Wide Web Foundation: Founded by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web, the World Wide Web Foundation empowers people to bring about positive change.
A History of Women Who Burned to Death in Flammable Dresses
Why TV studios should stop playing it safe when it comes to fantasy: Enough of Martin and Tolkien — there are other great books to adapt
Minimal carbs, lots of fat, incredible dieting results – but not enough science
Shoelace.css: a back to the basics CSS starter kit
Artwork Personalization at Netflix: Netflix reveals it personalises artwork design according to users’ viewing habits
Materialized View Strategies Using PostgreSQL
The People Who Read Your Airline Tweets
Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear: science fiction writer Ted Chiang looks at capitalism, Silicon Valley, and its fear of superintelligent AI.
Waar rook is: de macht van de tabaksindustrie: Radar Extra

17.12.2017

A journey through a land of extreme poverty: welcome to America
35 Times Privacy Was A Lie In 2017
Mimi O’Donnell Reflects on the Loss of Philip Seymour Hoffman and the Devastation of Addiction - Vogue
Stop Calling Women Nags — How Emotional Labor is Dragging Down Gender Equality
The Book That Made Me a Feminist Was Written by an Abuser: ‘The Mists of Avalon’ changed my life—how do I reconcile that with what I now know about its author?
Muuri: Responsive, sortable, filterable and draggable grid layouts
How to make your HTML responsive by adding a single line of CSS

The potato's role in the global dominance of white people — Quartzy
Reel dilemma | The Guardian: Are we condoning the conduct of Hollywood's tyrants by watching their films?
Bitcoin could cost us our clean-energy future | Grist: By July 2019, the bitcoin network will require more electricity than the entire US currently uses. By February 2020, it will use as much electricity as the entire world does today.
I Made My Shed the Top Rated Restaurant On TripAdvisor
Top 25 News Photos of 2017 - The Atlantic
Alle recensies uit de VN Seriegids
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines—for People Who Haven't Read Them
The Untold Story of Japan's First People: In the 20th century, Japanese anthropologists and officials tried to hide the existence of the Indigenous Ainu.
The Front-End Checklist
What On Earth Is Going On With Bitcoin? - The Atlantic: The cryptocurrency’s current price is completely unreal. Then again, so is money.
Why CSS Grid is better than Bootstrap for creating layouts
How to respond when you are asked for an estimate?: Software Engineering Stack Exchange

We’re All Guinea Pigs in a Failed Decades-Long Diet Experiment
Mea Culpa. Kinda Sorta. - The New York Times: [..] analyze the apologies — and non-apologies — issued by high-profile men accused of sexual misconduct.
Hillary Clinton meets Mary Beard: The Guardian: ‘I would love to have told Trump: “Back off, you creep”’
Reflections of a Lifelong Metalhead
Hoe de overheid 100 miljoen uitgaf aan drie ict-mislukkingen - NRC
A Pinterest Progressive Web App Performance Case Study
WHAMAGEDDON: The objective is to go as long as possible without hearing WHAM's Christmas classic; "Last Christmas".

Kim Jong Un’s North Korea: Life inside the totalitarian state: Recent North Korean escapees relate how the secretive country has changed under the “Great Successor.”
That $450 Million Leonardo? It’s No Mona Lisa. - The New York Times: 'Salvator Mundi' sold for a shocking $450.3 million, the highest price ever paid for a work of art at auction
Toppling the Grammar Patriarchy - The New York Times: More than 300 teachers in France said they would no longer teach the rule that “the masculine prevails over the feminine” when it came to plural nouns.
Charles Manson crawled from the Summer of Love to descend into Helter Skelter murders - LA Times
History of reading: The beginning of silent reading changed humans' interior life
Happier HTML5 Form Validation
200 universities just launched 600 free online courses. Here’s the full list. — Quartz
Scrollama.js: Scrollama is a modern and lightweight JavaScript library for scrollytelling using IntersectionObserver in favor of scroll events
Travels in Belgium, the dysfunctional, fractured state at the heart of the EU
Norway's Medieval Wooden Churches Look Plucked From a Fairy Tale

Malcolm Young, AC/DC Guitarist and Co-Founder, Dead at 64 - Rolling Stone: Musician who co-founded Australian rock legends in 1973 with brother Angus Young dies following battle with dementia
Elon Musk: Inventor's Plans for Outer Space, Cars, Finding Love - Rolling Stone: Inside the inventor's world-changing plans to inhabit outer space, revolutionize high-speed transportation, reinvent cars – and hopefully find love along the way
Rhythm is King: Malcolm Young’s Rock-Solid Riffage
a11y.css: CSS file intends to warn developers about possible risks and mistakes that exist in HTML code
How to use SVG as a Placeholder, and Other Image Loading Techniques
Shards Demo: A Modern UI Toolkit for Web Makers
Animista: play with a collection of pre-made CSS animations, tweak them and get only those you will actually use
When will the Earth try to kill us again? | Ars Technica
What Did 17th Century Food Taste Like?
How the ‘Shalane Flanagan Effect’ Works - NYTimes.com: You serve as a rocket booster for the careers of the women who work alongside you, while catapulting forward yourself.
26 time-management, productivity tricks