2018
- Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’
- US explorer Colin O'Brady completes first unaided solo trek of Antarctica | World news | The Guardian
- Endurance athlete took 54 days to walk 932 miles across frozen continent, dragging a 170kg sled
- It's 2018. Here's What People A Century Ago Thought Our Lives Would Be Like
- Frankie Boyle’s review of 2018
- 'Let's forget Brexit and enjoy our last Christmas with running water'
- Adactio: Journal—Browsers
- " Microsoft’s Edge browser is going to switch its rendering engine over to Chromium. I am deflated and disappointed."
- These faces show how far AI image generation has advanced in just four years - The Verge
- Those people on the right aren’t real; they’re the product of machine learning
- How I Quit Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon - Motherboard
- A reflection on my month without Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon, plus a how-to guide if you want to quit the biggest companies in tech.
- The designer who radically suggested that women should wear what’s comfortable - The Washington Post
- Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - The New York Times
- Dozens of companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds. They say it’s anonymous, but the data shows how personal it is.
- Meat allergies are on the rise. The weirdest part is that we know what’s causing it.
- The State of UX in 2019
- We have isolated a few trends in what our industry is writing, talking, and thinking about. Here’s what to expect for UX in 2019.
- WALL·E | Typeset In The Future
- From a trash-filled Earth to the futuristic Axiom and back again, WALL·E is a finely crafted balance between consumerist dystopia and sixties space-race optimism.
- Teaching kids to code
- I’m a developer and I think it doesn’t actually teach important skills.
- 2019 may be the hottest year yet, spurred by El Nino and climate change—here's why
- How Close-Up Glamour Shots Are Generating Buzz for Bees - Atlas Obscura
- The Philosophy of SimCity
- An Interview With the Game's Lead Designer
- The Planet Has Seen Sudden Warming Before. It Wiped Out Almost Everything.
- In some ways, the planet's worst mass extinction — 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian Period — may parallel climate change today.
- Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Nailed the ’50s
- Amy Sherman-Palladino Reveals How
- The Enormous Life of Anthony Bourdain, According to Those Who Knew Him Best | GQ
- NK Tegenwindfietsen: een beetje sterven op Neeltje Jans | Zeeuws nieuws
- Hoe de doorgedraaide mode-industrie het leven eiste van geniaal ontwerper Alexander McQueen
- Net de docu gezien, erg aangrijpend.. Aanrader!
- Esri Leaflet
- A lightweight set of tools for using ArcGIS services with Leaflet.
- Major sites running unauthenticated JavaScript on their payment pages
- David Attenborough says civilisation will collapse if humanity doesn't take action on global warming at climate change talks | The Independent
- Quitting Instagram
- Why did one of the original employees of the social media platform quit the company and delete the app?
- Spectaculair incompetente mensen bekleden de hoogste posten in Groot-Brittannië (en nog twee lessen van Brexit) - De Correspondent
- Bowel movement | The Guardian
- the push to change the way you poo
- The Digital Maginot Line
- We are immersed in an evolving, ongoing conflict: an Information World War in which state actors, terrorists, and ideological extremists leverage the social infrastructure underpinning everyday life to sow discord and erode shared reality.
- We have 12 years to avert dire climate change consequences: UN report
- Earth is on track to face devastating consequences of climate change — extreme drought, food shortages and deadly flooding — unless there’s an “unprecedented” effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, a new United Nations report warns.
- The World Needs to Quit Coal. Why Is It So Hard? - The New York Times
- Coal, the fuel that powered the industrial age, has led the planet to the brink of catastrophic climate change.
- Legacy of President George H.W. Bush: War Crimes, Racism
- In the age of Donald Trump, it isn’t difficult for hagiographers of the late Bush Sr. to paint a picture of him as a great patriot and pragmatist; a president who governed with “class” and “integrity.”
- How to Deal with Difficult People on Software Projects
- 48 personalities that cause software development projects to fail.
- The Mystery Font That Took Over New York - The New York Times
- How did Choc, a quirky calligraphic typeface drawn by a French graphic designer in the 1950s, end up on storefronts everywhere?
- Why did Apple remove the iPhone headphone jack?
- anything wireless is just another battery to worry about.
- Ons basisinkomen volgens Rutger Bregman - VPRO Tegenlicht
- dit eeuwenoude idee een probaat middel is voor armoedebestrijding en het aanjagen van nieuwe economische activiteit.
- Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?
- The songs that reached the top 10 were, on average, more repetitive than the rest in every year from 1960 to 2015!
- Why Publish a Dire Federal Climate Report on Black Friday? - The Atlantic
- In a massive new report, federal scientists contradict President Trump and assert that climate change is an intensifying danger to the United States. Too bad it came out on a holiday.
- WordPress – 404 after Saving a Post
- What Amazon’s Black Friday shift is like for workers - Vox
- A former warehouse manager shares what the Black Friday shift is like.
- Too right it's Black Friday: our relentless consumption is trashing the planet
- Growth must go on – and it’s destroying the Earth. But there’s no way of greening it. So we need a new system, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot
- Why We're Investigating Extreme Politics in Underground Music
- With the far right in ascendence across the globe, there's never been a more necessary time to investigate fascist and racist infiltration, current and historical, into the underground culture we love.
- The Post on Anti-Semitism I Never Thought I’d Write
- Like many non-religious Jews of my generation, I naively assumed Nazism could never rise — and hurt us — again.
- What are two events that took place in the same time in history but don't seem like they would have
- "Nintendo was founded in 1888. Jack the Ripper was on the loose in 1888."
- The Story Behind That IKEA Photo of Amsterdam
- Instagram Grids: The Art of the Perfect Insta Page
- Nice photos are table stakes on Instagram. The real art — and terror — comes in arranging your grid.
- Nomon Design Klokken | Designlinq.nl
- NPO-programma’s doorzoekbaar dankzij tool die ondertiteling uitleest | Stimuleringsfonds voor de Journalistiek
- The Simple Joy of “No Phones Allowed”
- Jay Rosen’s “Letter to My Network: Join The Correspondent”
- Why Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia
- The instant payment app Swish has been downloaded by more than half of the population.
- Blocked From The Ballot : Stories on Voting in America
- To shed light on modern issues of disenfranchisement and to amplify the stories of those without a voice and those protecting the right to vote within their communities.
- Why Doctors Hate Their Computers | The New Yorker
- Digitization promises to make medical care easier and more efficient. But are screens coming between doctors and patients?
- Why Ratings and Feedback Forms Don’t Work - The Atlantic
- Companies and apps constantly ask for ratings, but all that data may just be noise in the system.
- November = Covember | Zware Metalen
- Should a self-driving car kill the baby or the grandma? Depends on where you’re from. - MIT Technology Review
- Countries with more individualistic cultures are more likely to spare the young
- Fasting Diets Are Increasingly Popular, But Do They Really Work? | The Scientist Magazine®
- How the Keto diet—even without exercise—slays the opposition
- Nu meer aandacht en geld voor de fiets - Fietsersbond
- The U.S. Needs Election Observers
- U.S. Elections Are Neither Free Nor Fair. States Need to Open Their Doors to More Observers.
- Why Are There So Many Problems With Voting Machines? - The Atlantic
- "More than 40 states use computerized voting machines that are more than a decade old or are no longer manufactured." A voting machine that’s been around that long is at least as old as the very first iPhone that Apple released way back in 2007.
- L.A. Band Threatin Faked a Fanbase To Land a European Tour No One Attended | MetalSucks
- Boudica: how a widowed queen became a rebellious woman warrior | Aeon Essays
- How a widowed queen became a rebel warrior, defying Roman patriarchy, and leading her people to glory even in defeat
- The 35 best science-fiction movies since Blade Runner
- ‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’: Satanic Temple Suing Netflix – Rolling Stone
- Photos: Flooding in Venice, Italy, Reaches Near-Record Levels
- We gaan steeds sneller, maar komen geen seconde eerder thuis (en dat is een groot probleem) - De Correspondent
- Art History For All – Dedicated to making art accessible
- My Data Done Right
- om je te helpen met het opstellen, versturen en bijhouden van je verzoeken om inzage te krijgen in je persoonsgegevens of je persoonsgegevens te corrigeren, te verwijderen of ze in een handig formaat op te vragen.
- 30 Seconds of CSS
- What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?
- Self-checkout is terrible: why Walmart, Target, and others still do it - Vox
- You Are Jeff Bezos by Kris Ligman
- The text-based choose-your-own-adventure game illustrates pretty artfully just how much money 156 billion American dollars is.
- iPhones are hard to use
- I have resigned as the WordPress accessibility team lead. Here is why. | Brad Frost
- JavaScript is eating the world, and that has me just a bit worried. Designers and specialists of different stripes might not have the programming chops of a JavaScript engineer, but their perspectives are just as important to the success and health of a software product.