2019
- The Decade of Enduring Male Fragility
- in response to displays of female strength, many men would reveal themselves to be as fragile as eggshells
- The Second Populist Term Is Always Worse - The Atlantic
- Narendra Modi has been emboldened by reelection. The American president could be too.
- Having a Good Holiday Season? Thank a Woman!
- Holiday cheer is almost exclusively manufactured by women, often at a cost to our own happiness
- Site.js
- Develop, test, and deploy your secure static or dynamic personal web site with zero configuration.
- The Terror Queue
- These moderators help keep Google and YouTube free of violent extremism — and now some of them have PTSD
- This is How a Society Dies
- America and Britain are Textbook Examples of a New, Gruesome Phenomeon: Rich Nations Self-Destructing Into Poor Failed States
- 6 Extremely Depressing Climate Records We Broke This Decade
- The climate crisis is already here — and it's only getting worse.
- Fietsers, bedankt!
- Als er in Nederland net zo weinig mensen zouden fietsen als in een gemiddeld buitenland, dan zou de extreme drukte van een slechtweerdag de regel zijn, niet de uitzondering.
- 'It's pretty staggering'
- Returned online purchases often sent to landfill, journalist's research reveals
- Baby Yoda Is Your God Now
- Zo verwijder je de bestrijdingsmiddelen van je groenten en fruit
- Taking Sex Differences in Personality Seriously
- New approaches are shedding light on the magnitude of sex differences in personality and the results are so strong and pervasive that they can no longer be ignored.
- Leonardo
- Generate colors based on a desired contrast ratio.
- How Reese Witherspoon Took Charge of Her Career and Changed Hollywood | Hollywood Reporter
- "One even said to me, 'We have a movie with a woman at the center of it, but we're not going to make two this year,' " she says, "without any embarrassment."
- Groundbreaking South Carolina Bill
- Compensate People for Forcing Them to Give Birth
- How Silicon Valley Broke the Economy | The Nation
- See how climate change has impacted the world since your childhood
- “The most concerning thing to emphasise is it’s not over, we are not even into summer yet.”
- Components AI
- A new way to explore generative design systems
- “Link In Bio” is a slow knife
- It’s a pithy phrase, usually found on Instagram, which directs an audience to be aware that a pertinent web link can be found on that user’s profile. Its presence is so subtle, and so pervasive, that we barely even noticed it was an attempt to kill the web.
- noUiSlider - JavaScript Range Slider
- How I Get By: A Week in the Life of a McDonald’s Cashier - VICE
- Cierra Brown is trying to do all she can on her own, but it rarely feels like she’s doing enough.
- Finding the Right Color Palettes for Data Visualizations
- Make a smooth shadow, friend.
- I’m Honestly Fed Up With All The Bad News, So I Illustrated 50 Of The Best Ones From 2019 | Bored Panda
- We are often bombarded with fear-mongering and shocking headlines that make us feel that the world is falling apart. However, while it’s important to report on problems and issues, I believe there is so much good in this world that it needs to be found and promoted just as widely.
- Not Exactly the Orient Express, But Europe’s Sleepers Are Back
- Romanticized by movies like “Murder on the Orient Express” and “From Russia With Love,” sleeper trains had all but disappeared in Europe. Now, some of their magic is being revived -- with a modern twist.
- How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse | Silicon Valley | The Guardian
- Silicon Valley’s elite are hatching plans to escape disaster – and when it comes, they’ll leave the rest of us behind
- Woman Wearing ‘Hail Satan’ Shirt Ordered to Get Off Plane
- The flight crew reportedly told her she had to change because her shirt was “offensive.”
- How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer
- Don't Buy Anyone a Ring Camera
- It’s under Congressional scrutiny for poor data security and problematic privacy practices. It’s been engaged in dubious secret partnerships with police departments who can gain access to private home security camera feeds.
- When Things Go Wrong for Blind Users on Facebook, They Go Really Wrong
- Blind Facebook users are frustrated with screen-reader bugs. Former employees say Facebook isn’t doing enough.
- Watch Tom Araya Bid Emotional Goodbye To Fans At Last Ever Slayer Concert - Blabbermouth.net
- Opinion | I Invented the World Wide Web. Here’s How We Can Fix It.
- I wanted the web to serve humanity. It’s not too late to live up to that promise.
- MPH.tv
- Jouw subcultuur in beeld.
- Ask HN: Quitting Big Tech, what is it like?
- I walked ‘like a man’ for a week, and here’s what I realized.
- What happened was that women got out of the way. [..] What happened was that men ran into me.
- Design Over People?
- New Fine Arts Library Critiqued for See-Through, Grated Floors
- Fit on a Floppy
- Webpages are getting bigger and bigger. The internet is getting faster and faster but not everywhere at the same pace. A floppy is a physical reminder of filesize.
- ‘The Anti-Facebook’
- Wikipedia co-founder launches ad-free social media platform
- Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook
- Why office noise bothers some people more than others - BBC Worklife
- "It helps to be an extrovert." Thanks.
- Preventing Injury
- 8 Best Hand and Wrist Exercises for Computer Users
- “He’s F--king Destroyed This Town”: How Mark Zuckerberg Became the Most Reviled Man in Tech
- Any time there’s an inkling of innovation here, any time a new idea comes up, Zuckerberg either buys it and shuts it down, or copies it and shuts it down anyway.
- 16 weird jobs our ancestors did that no longer exist
- The Industrial Revolution did away with many oddball gigs that your great-great-grandparents might have had.
- Disney+ and ‘The Mandalorian’ Are Driving People Back to Torrenting
- Piracy is back, and with a now-exhausting number of streaming sites, it doesn't seem like it's going away soon.
- JavaScript isn’t always available and it’s not the user’s fault
- When it fails, it’s our job to make sure we don’t exclude users from accessing the products we make by designing resilient interfaces.
- Alexa's Struggle With African Accents
- Alexa terrorised my Nigerian mother-in-law by refusing to grant any of her requests until she had asked at least five times, the fifth time in a forced British accent.
- There’s an Outbreak of the “Black Death” Plague in China
- Doctors have diagnosed patients with the "most serious" form of the plague.
- NY regulators investigating Apple Card after viral complaint of sexism | Ars Technica
- Customer service reportedly blamed "the algorithm" for discrepancies.
- Mozilla Firefox at 15: Can privacy be the killer app?
- Mozilla’s browser debuted on November 9, 2004, and became a phenom before losing ground to Chrome. Now it’s doubling down on user privacy and autonomy.
- WordPress + Git = VersionPress
- 'OK, boomer': 25-year-old New Zealand politician shuts down heckler - CNN
- Stackbit | Build Modern JAMstack Websites in Minutes
- Combine any Theme, Site Generator and CMS without complicated integrations
- What if We Stopped Pretending the Climate Apocalypse Can Be Stopped? | The New Yorker
- The Simple Dutch Cure for Stress
- Today, the practice is so common that it’s known as 'uitwaaien'. “It’s basically the activity of spending time in the wind, usually by going for a walk or a bike ride.”
- Josh Homme interview: "Desert Sessions is like being a tour guide into the bizarre"
- Josh Homme's Desert Sessions is back. 16 years since the last record, the Queens of the Stone Age frontman has gathered a wonderfully weird group of people together for 'Vol. 11/12'
- Our Skulls Are Out-Evolving Us - OneZero
- A motley crew of scientists argue that our ever-shrinking skulls are wreaking havoc on our well-being
- Why Standups are Useless and How to Run Great Product Team Meetings - Andy Johns
- Anything shared that does not explicitly unblock you is meaningless noise.
- PureCSS Lace
- How to Display Popular Posts by Views in WordPress without a Plugin
- An Oral History Of Blade Runner's 2019 Los Angeles, Because The Future Has Arrived
- Thirty-seven years after it came out, we are now in the month that the movie took place.
- This is what climate change looks like in Australia – in pictures
- Hilarious Signs Spotted at Work
- Aaron Sorkin: An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg - The New York Times
- CSS Rock-Paper-Scissors
- 40 Major Music Festivals Have Pledged Not to Use Facial Recognition Technology - VICE
- Activists declare the first major victory against the spread of commercial facial recognition technology in the United States.
- Unpleasant Design & Hostile Urban Architecture
- 20 Years Later, and the Women of Angel Still Deserve More | TV Guide
- The deaths of Darla, Fred, and Cordelia Chase were a waste.
- For thousands of years, humans slept in two shifts.
- Should we do it again?
- Facebook Axed Pro-Vaccine Ads From Hospitals and Health Orgs, Let Anti-Vaxxer Ads Slip Through
- Race and the Science of Starvation
- Among the specious claims about the role of meat in the history of humanity: A meat-rich diet brings with it a masculine vigor that distinguishes carnivorous races.
- The long and underappreciated history of male witches
- and the countries where more men were prosecuted for witchcraft
- David Benioff and D.B Weiss talked about the show at the ongoing Austin Film Festival and there were lots of WTFs.
- A Single Div
- A CSS drawing experiment to see what’s possible with a single div.
- I watched Fox News every day for 44 months – here's what I learned | Media | The Guardian
- As a media critic, I’ve had an intimate look at the channel’s morning show – and how it poisons the national conversation
- Chileans Have Launched a General Strike Against Austerity
- Chile is the original home of neoliberalism, first begun after the overthrow of President Salvador Allende in 1973.
- ‘The Deuce’ – Rolling Stone
- David Simon and Emily Meade on Lori’s Story
- 60 Extensions to Supercharge Visual Studio Code
- Sharing Visual Studio Code Settings in Dropbox | Tom McFarlin
- Iceland’s tourism boom, reconsidered - Vox
- Visiting Iceland in the age of overtourism.
- An introduction to Git merge and rebase
- what they are, and how to use them
- Asynchronous Communication: The Real Reason Remote Workers Are More Productive
- If employees are consistently more productive when working away from the office, there’s something broken about the modern workplace.
- Firefox 70 — a bountiful release for all
- Programming Fonts - Test Drive
- Clipping, Clipping, and More Clipping! | CSS-Tricks
- I hope this will spark new ideas for fun things you can do with the CSS clip-path property.
- Dark theme in a day
- a programmer wrote to us suggesting adding a second, dark colour theme: a way to convince the app to use light text on a darker background
- Dark Mode in CSS
- Godhead’s Lament
- 20 Years of Opeth’s “Still Life,” an Interview with Mikael Åkerfeldt