Linklist 30 augustus 2020

Playlist Cover Maker - Spotlistr
Build beautiful cover art for your playlists in just a few seconds!
Chadwick Boseman: the unbearable loss of a prince of American cinema
What a terrible blow to lose a young actor of so much promise – the poignancy of his death made all the more acute by its echo in Spike Lee’s recent Da 5 Bloods
Riley Gale: the death of thrash metal's great idealist is a terrible loss
The frontman of Power Trip, who has died aged 34, mixed philosophy, economics and genuine empathy into a searingly potent vision for a better world
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter on Making ‘Bill & Ted Face the Music’
on How the Beatles Secretly Helped ‘Bill & Ted Face the Music’
The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free
so much academic writing is kept behind vastly more costly paywalls. A white supremacist on YouTube will tell you all about race and IQ but if you want to read a careful scholarly refutation, obtaining a legal PDF from the journal publisher would cost you $14.95
Notes for a Post-apocalyptic Novel
When things get hard, we look to our most fundamental relationships. This is the story of a son, a father, a camper van, a pandemic, and the ties that bind.
Africa declared free of wild polio in 'milestone' - BBC News
Nigeria is now rid of wild polio having had more than half of global cases less than 10 years ago.
The Languages Which Almost Became CSS
Scots Wikipedia
I’ve discovered that almost every single article on the Scots version of Wikipedia is written by the same person - an American teenager who can’t speak Scots
Build a Bootstrap 4 & Vue App - Vue.js Developers
Learn to build a Bootstrap 4 web app with Vue as the JavaScript framework (rather than jQuery).
A clean start for the web - macwright.com
my casual, unprofessional pitch for a reboot of the web. The idea is that we could choose a new lightweight markdown format to replace HTML & CSS, split the web into documents and applications, and find performance, accessibility, and fun again.
Long-Haulers Are Redefining COVID-19
Without understanding the lingering illness that some patients experience, we can’t understand the pandemic.
Degoogle
A huge list of alternatives to Google products. Privacy tips, tricks, and links.
RolandMC-500.css
Photorealistic illustration of a Roland MC-500.
To Test Spread of Coronavirus, These Scientists Put on a Concert
In Germany, volunteers gathered in an arena for an experiment that could help create safety measures for live events around the world.