2021
- 100 ways to slightly improve your life without really trying
- Betty White Dead at 99
- Betty White, beloved ‘Golden Girls’ actress, comedian and American icon is dead at the age of 99. Betty passed away just weeks before what would have been her 100th birthday.
- OK, where do I start with that?
- People are always asking where they should start reading particular authors. This series of posts working their way through the alphabet as represented by my bookshelves, is an attempt to answer those questions.
- I’m a climate scientist. Don’t Look Up captures the madness I see every day
- A film about a comet hurtling towards Earth and no one is doing anything about it? Sounds exactly like the climate crisis
- twitter-blocklist in Python
- Export and import Twitter blocklists
- Waltzmania in the Paris Pleasure Gardens
- Elizabeth Claire on the culture of dancing madness in post-terror Paris.
- Large Roman fort built by Caligula discovered near Amsterdam
- Fortified camp for thousands of soldiers thought to have been used by Emperor Claudius during conquest of Britain in AD43
- Mapping Folklore: Mythical Creatures of the Baltics and Beyond
- The 78 Best Documentaries of All Time
- From films by Errol Morris to Orson Welles, Laura Poitras to Les Blank, the Maysles to Wim Wenders and Werner Herzog, here are the best documentaries ever made.
- Layout patterns
- A collection of layout patterns built using modern CSS APIs that will help you build common interfaces such as cards, dynamic grid areas, and full-page layouts.
- Old CSS, new CSS
- I’m here to tell all of you to get off my lawn. Here’s a history of CSS and web design, as I remember it.
- Tailwind and the Femininity of CSS
- Why we undervalue front-end expertise in the web development world.
- Kirsten Dunst’s Feminine Urges
- For three decades, Dunst has been one of our preëminent performers of conflicted womanhood. With “The Power of the Dog,” she might be finally getting her due.
- Thwaites: Antarctic glacier heading for dramatic change
- Thwaites is a colossus. It's roughly the size of Great Britain, or Florida, and its outflow speed has doubled in the past 30 years.
- Your 'Best Shows of The Year' Lists All Have One Glaring Omission
- Spoiler: Mare of Easttown
- Waarom oude, gedragen bandshirts ineens voor flinke bedragen over de toonbank gaan
- Literature Clock
- How The Matrix 4.0 resurrects an iconic 20-year love story
- Decades after 'The Matrix' changed movies forever, Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss return for the year's most timely sequel.
- Tom Morello Signs Open Letter Denouncing Amazon's Palm-Scanning Concert Tech
- That Time I Bought 50 Pairs of Jeans. For Science.
- We’re going to talk about all the ways that all of these jeans failed. We will also talk about the two pairs I kept and why they’re okay if not great and what I’m actually wearing day to day.
- Reddit Reads
- Book reccomendations from reddit
- Hey, Facebook, I Made a Metaverse 27 Years Ago
- It was terrible then, and it’s terrible now.
- The ‘Succession’ Cast On the Astonishing Season-Three Finale
- The Curious History of Steam Heat and Pandemics
- Steam heating and radiators were designed to heat buildings on the coldest day of the year with all the windows open.
- The economics of movie product placements
- Today’s films are brimming with products from big-name brands. How exactly do these partnerships work?
- Amsterdam's New Plan to Keep Waffle, Souvenir Shops Out
- The city’s latest bold initiative is offering up cash to help local community groups oust touristy businesses.
- 52 things I learned in 2021 by Tom Whitwell
- How the Netherlands will survive in floating cities
- With sea levels rising, the Dutch are pondering floating cities — while also exporting their engineering know-how to turn a tidy profit.
- Cancel Mel Gibson, Hollywood's Leading Anti-Semite
- When “Foundation” Gets the Blockbuster Treatment, Isaac Asimov’s Vision Gets Lost
- The TV version of the classic sci-fi saga sidelines its source’s most pressing questions about power and precarity.
- How we came to depend on the week despite its artificiality
- The week is the most artificial and recent of our time counts yet it’s impossible to imagine our shared lives without it
- Here's Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand
- /Film spoke with several Oscar-winning sound designers, editors, and mixers to learn why it has become tougher to understand what characters are saying.
- Defensive CSS
- Content is dynamic, and things can change on a web page, thus increasing the possibility of a CSS issue or a weird behavior.
- Professor VS veegt vloer aan met onze basismaatregelen: 'Volledig achterhaald'
- Omicron’s Rapid Case Growth Is a Warning
- We don’t know how severe Omicron is, but we do know it’s spreading very fast.
- The best tiny houses of 2021
- Celebrating Grace Hopper and the Origins of Debugging
- Happy birthday to Grace!
- Nederland koopt voor 175 miljoen een Rembrandt. Heeft het Rijks echt een vaandeldrager nodig? | De Volkskrant
- Met de aankoop van Rembrandts De vaandeldrager wordt de canon van Hollandse kunst andermaal bevestigd – niet aangevuld, gecorrigeerd of opgefrist, betoogt kunsthistoricus en Volkskrant-redacteur Wieteke van Zeil.
- Be usable, not consistent, not uniform
- if you don’t know what you want to a design to be consistent with — and why — then consistency risks confusing your users.
- Modern for Wikipedia
- A redesigned user interface for Wikipedia
- SODAQ AIR
- A highly intuitive air quality monitor, designed to help everyone, everywhere understand the quality of the AIR.
- The strange, slavery-defined border of Oklahoma’s Panhandle
- Sometimes strange borders hide in plain sight. Every panhandle has a story but none that were defined almost entirely by the fight over slavery.
- The medieval Dutch solution to flooding
- In a world of more frequent and more intense flooding, one way to protect against the worst can trace its roots back to the Netherlands, nearly 1,000 years ago.
- Ask HN: Software Engineer hitting 40: what's next?
- Underrated reasons to be thankful
- Oh, and also that the universe exists at all, and that life exists on at least one planet in it.
- Surveillance, Companionship, and Entertainment
- Artificial servants, autonomous killing machines, surveillance systems, and sex robots have been part of the human imagination for thousands of years.
- The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980–2020
- Predictions by Wired from 1997
- Covid denial to climate denial
- Anti-lockdown movements online are turning their attention to climate conspiracy theories.
- Is 'Dopesick' a true story?
- What the show gets right about the opioid crisis
- Keanu Reeves interview 2021
- Keanu Reeves on Matrix Resurrection, John Wick, His Personal Life
- ICU is full of the unvaccinated – my patience with them is wearing thin
- Most of the resources the NHS is devoting to Covid in hospital are being spent on people who have not had their jab
- The State Of The Web
- The opening presentation from An Event Apart Spring Summit held online in April 2021.
- Kyle Rittenhouse has walked free. Now it’s open season on protesters
- Demonstrators in the US must fear not only police brutality but also rightwing vigilantes
- The Long, Hidden History of the Viking Obsession With Werewolves
- A symbol both of chaos and order, the wolf came to represent many things for the Vikings.
- Interstellar 8-Track: How Voyager's Vintage Tech Keeps Running
- Launched in 1977, the probe is vintage space hardware. [..] Looking at the machine’s specs is a reminder of how far electronics have come in the intervening years.
- What’s the music industry doing about climate change?
- From touring to festivals, vinyl and even streaming, when it comes to the environment, there aren’t many clean hands in the biz.
- Fifty percent of Facebook Messenger’s total voice traffic comes from Cambodia.
- Keyboards weren't designed for Khmer. So Cambodians have just decided to ignore them
- Was Ebola a near-miss? - Lessons From The Crisis
- Almost every wrong ‘official’ belief of the early covid era was deployed with equal confidence against ebola six years previously.
- ‘3rd Rock from the Sun’ Cast Reunites at Vulture Festival
- Het Chinese Liuzhou is de elektrische-autohoofdstad van de wereld
- De microwagens zijn al te koop vanaf 4.000 euro, opladen kan overal, parkeren ook. [..] hoe milieuvriendelijk is het?
- Marilyn Manson Abuse Allegations: A Monster Hiding in Plain Sight
- Long Range E-Bike
- Developer Tools secrets that shouldn’t be secrets
- "I am a principal product manager for developer tools in Microsoft Edge and these are things I encountered during working on the tools, documenting them and going through user feedback."
- The Psychology Behind Meeting Overload
- Six biases that lead us to have too many meetings — and how to overcome them.
- Merlin's Wisdom Project
- Or: “Everybody likes being given a glass of water.”
- 99 Additional Bits of Unsolicited Advice
- Siouxsie and the Banshees and Me
- Can we stomach the latest emerging food innovations?
- Our growing appetite for novel food tech - from lab grown meat to nano-packaging.
- Notes on Web3
- Four charts that show just what's at stake at the COP26 climate summit
- How hot will the planet get? What nations negotiate at the international climate summit will help determine that.
- Europe once again at centre of Covid pandemic, says WHO
- Planetary Scientists Recreate Arrakis From Dune, and It Really Is a Hellhole
- Climate models suggest a fictional planet like Arrakis would be habitable, but just barely.
- How to maintain a healthy brain
- Adopt these lifestyle changes and you will not only sharpen your mind today but also reduce your risk of dementia later on
- Capitalism is killing the planet – it’s time to stop buying into our own destruction
- Instead of focusing on ‘micro consumerist bollocks’ like ditching our plastic coffee cups, we must challenge the pursuit of wealth and level down, not up
- Timeline of the human condition
- Milestones in evolution and history
- Lesser Known PostgreSQL Features
- What Big Oil knew about climate change, in its own words
- Transcripts and internal documents show how the industry shifted from leading research into fossil fuels’ effect on the climate to sowing doubt about science.
- More 'disease' than 'Dracula' – how the vampire myth was born
- The past century’s vampires have often been a bit dashing, even romantic. That’s not how the myth started out.
- The Code That Controls Your Money
- COBOL underpins the entire financial system. And it can’t be removed. How a computer language controls the financial life of the world.
- Fascine Mattresses: Basketry Gone Wild
- Around the 17th century, the Dutch started reinforcing their dykes and harbours with sturdy mats the size of football pitches – hand-woven from thousands of twigs grown on nearby coppice plantations.
- Novelists illustrate the climate futures that could await us
- Authors Kim Stanley Robinson and Omar el-Akkad discuss the responsibility fiction writers have to address the climate crisis.
- A Photo Trip to the Faroe Islands
- Images of this rugged, treeless archipelago located in the North Atlantic, about halfway between Norway and Iceland
- Complexity is killing software developers
- modern software development is “a study in entropy, and it is not getting any more simple.”
- 35 History Maps That Explain The World Better Than Any Textbook
- No Bicycling At COP26 Means Quickest Way To Decarbonise Road Transport Is Inexplicably Missing
- Active travel—walking or cycling for transport—rarely takes center stage at climate conferences, a bizarre omission, say experts.
- Actually, Sandworm Attacks Have Only a One Percent Death Rate
- 'Paul is straight-up LYING to us when he says they just need to figure out how to kill the sandworms before we go back to normal.' McSweeney’s FTW
- Living Alone in the U.S. Is Harder Than It Should Be
- In ways both large and small, American society still assumes that the default adult has a partner and that the default household contains multiple people.
- The Story of Native American Metal Band Winterhawk
- "Dune," climate fiction pioneer
- The ecological lessons of Frank Herbert's sci-fi masterpiece were ahead of its time
- Hyundai develops plug-and-play EV smart wheel with 90-degree turning
- Dancing ’Till Death: The Mystery Behind Dancing Manias
- Masses of people tumbled through the streets of Strasbourg in 1518, dancing toward their doom. Scholars still struggle to understand why.
- What do I need to read to be a CSS dev?
- Some interesting links in this thread on Hacker News
- CookLang: recipe markup language
- macOS 12 Monterey: The Ars Technica review
- No time to die
- An in-depth analysis of James Bond's exposure to infectious agents
- The case against Mark Zuckerberg
- Insiders say Facebook’s CEO chose growth over safety
- Using Performant Next-Gen Images in CSS with image-set