2022
- ffconf talks
- Web development & JavaScript conference in Brighton, UK
- Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634)
- The founder of the Dutch winter landscape
- Picturing Winter, a Solstice Celebration | Tor.com
- On this Solstice Day, with so few hours of sunshine to warm us, I asked a number of artists to send me some of their favorite winter paintings.
- Does Your Product Actually Need Dark Mode?
- Best Of 2022 – Last Rites Combined Staff Top 25
- Daring Fireball: I Wish I Could Tell You This One Is Not All About Twitter
- There are tough sells, and there are tough sells. Selling shares of Twitter at $54.20 today could be grist for a sequel to *Glengarry Glen Ross*.
- First Pull Request
- How to propose changes to open-source software using GitHub pull requests
- Why we're doing this - Flickr Foundation
- we’re creating a visual commons—a collective reference of our history and our humanity, accessible by anyone, anywhere.
- Trakt Downtime Official Update
- Elon’s Promise Not To Ban Account Tracking His Jet Didn’t Last Very Long At All; Also Bans Guy’s Personal Account
- The 10 Most Promising Breakthrough Innovations of 2022
- Pictures of the beginning of the universe, medicine that can (kind of) reverse death, and other leaps of human ingenuity
- The Enduring Metal Genius of Metallica
- On the road with the band in its forty-first year.
- How centuries-old whaling logs are filling gaps in our climate knowledge
- Whalers from the 18th and 19th centuries are helping 21st Century scientists on climate change.
- AI-generated answers temporarily banned on coding Q&A site Stack Overflow
- People have been using OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT to flood the site with AI responses, but Stack Overflow’s mods say these ‘have a high rate of being incorrect.’
- It’s Hard to Get a Driver’s License in Holland
- And That’s One Reason Dutch Roads Are So Safe
- While anticipation builds for GPT-4, OpenAI quietly releases GPT-3.5
- OpenAI has quietly released models based on GPT-3.5, an improved version of GPT-3 that's better at generating detailed text -- and poems.
- DALL·E 2
- a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.
- Man wins legal right to be ‘boring’ at work, gets $3K from company
- You’ve got to fight for your right not to party.
- EU unveils plans to cut Europe’s plastic and packaging waste
- Draft regulations would ban mini-shampoo bottles and throwaway cups, with push towards reuse over recycling
- Column: Elon Musk is on a collision course with European regulators. He's going to lose
- Twitter's new owner has thumbed his nose at American regulators at every turn, and they've largely let him. If Musk thinks that approach will fly on the Continent, he's very wrong.
- Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award 2022 shortlisted images
- Fifteen Ways to Share Your Joke After Twitter Implodes - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
- GitHub - timhutton/twitter-archive-parser
- Python code to parse a Twitter archive and output in various ways
- Feditrends
- Aggregrating the latest trending links from across the fediverse.
- 1979-1982 Babies Are A Lost Generation
- People born from 1978-1982 are a lost generation that grew up with technology that's both analog and digital.
- The real danger for the Mastodon/greater Fediverse community..
- The way the Fediverse is structured currently, it appears highly vulnerable to the old Embrace/Extend/Extinguish playbook
- That fediverse feeling
- Mastodon is a vibe shift in the best possible way.
- Pixelfed - Decentralized social media
- Learn more about Pixelfed, the free and open-source decentralized photo sharing social media platform
- One Poor Soul's Stock Photography Story
- Reminded Us Of All The People Whose Images Have Unfortunate Associations
- Twitter was special. But it's time to leave
- The engine that drove Twitter was the people. Nothing more. Nothing less.
- Our leaders had a final chance to halt climate breakdown. They failed each and every one of us
- It’s a miracle that any one of us is alive today. Those with the power to grant that miracle to future generations chose not to, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
- Micha Wertheim feliciteert Matthijs van Nieuwkerk met zijn vakantie en wil nog even wat kwijt over DWDD en cultuur
- Pulse – Meet de hartslag van je huis
- Een real-time energiemeter voor een slimmer en groener huis. Sluit 'm aan op je slimme meter en volg je stroomverbruik in real-time vanaf je smartphone.
- Building a website like it's 1999... in 2022
- Deleting DMs from Twitter using the GDPR
- Twitter is falling apart at the seams. You might want to do your best to ensure your DMs don't end up in the wrong hands.
- Day of 8 Billion | United Nations
- On 15 November 2022, the world’s population is projected to reach 8 billion people, a milestone in human development.
- The world has reached 8 billion people — but soon we'll hit a decline we'll never reverse
- Betalen voor de auto van de buren, iedereen doet het
- Nederland is een fietswalhalla. Toch zijn mensen hier verslaafd aan de auto en hebben ze geen idee hoe duur die verslaving werkelijk is.
- Why Roberta Williams Came Out of Retirement to Remake a Beloved Text Adventure
- 'Colossal Cave Adventure' summoned the Sierra adventure game legend to her calling. Forty years later, she's heeding its call again.
- Here’s Everything Leaving Your Brain This Month
- Writing Better Documentation
- Good documentation should go beyond the code itself and also cover your team, the product, your work process, areas of specialization, and many other key areas.
- Here’s how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks
- One insider says the company’s current staffing isn’t able to sustain the platform.
- Why US Traffic Safety Fell So Far Behind Other Countries
- The rising rate of road deaths in the US continues to defy global trends. Here’s what traffic planners in other nations could teach their American counterparts.
- Etymologica: Wereld, een oude samenstelling
- Het woord ‘wereld’ is ontstaan als samenstelling met de betekenis ‘mensenleven’. In dit artikel kom je te weten hoe het woord is veranderd.
- 4 Twitter features Mastodon is better for not having
- When less is more for healthy conversations
- Browsers, JSON, and FormData
- To put in bluntly: there’s no progressive enhancement if all your APIs only accept JSON payloads directly from the browser.
- Fedi.Tips
- An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
- How To Leave Twitter for Mastodon
- Is Elon Musk's Twitter buyout a red flag too far? Here's how to close your Twitter account, delete your Tweets, and get started with rival microblogging service Mastodon.
- Climate crisis: UN finds ‘no credible pathway to 1.5C in place’
- Failure to cut carbon emissions means ‘rapid transformation of societies’ is only option to limit impacts, report says
- Evolution of immune genes is associated with the Black Death
- identify signatures of natural selection imposed by Yersinia pestis and demonstrate their effect on genetic diversity and susceptibility to certain diseases in the present day.
- What Inspired 'The Bear'? The Show's Creator Explains It All
- Christopher Storer gives the backstory of the show of the summer—and what you might expect from Season Two.
- Electric Bike, Stupid Love of My Life
- Reflections on eighteen months of electric bike ownership
- Wees niet bang voor de duisternis, we moeten afkicken van onze verslaving aan licht
- Als de nacht weer donker mag zijn is dat niet alleen goed voor het energieverbruik en het ecosysteem, we worden er ook een ander mens van.
- RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language
- Builder and programmer of the ARC and SEC turned 100 this year
- Gnocchi Gratin | Nigella's Recipes
- Looks like the ultimate comfort food..
- 2022 Brazil election live updates: Lula defeats Bolsonaro
- Our Ancestors Ate a Paleo Diet, With Carbs
- A modern hunter-gatherer group known as the Hadza has taught researchers surprising things about the highly variable menu consumed by humans past
- European colonisation of the Americas killed 10% of world population and caused global cooling
- No records of the size of Native American populations before 1492 and the arrival of Europeans survive. A new study has found answers.
- Revisiting the Playground
- Such spaces have long been shaped by adult anxieties over urban planning and interaction with nature, rather than necessarily the needs of children at play.
- Climate change: UN warns key warming threshold slipping from sight
- The past 12 months have been a "wasted year" on climate change says the UN Environment Programme.
- Elon Musk completes Twitter takeover and ‘fires top executives’
- The $44bn deal will give world’s richest man control of social media platform with more than 230m users
- Gamechanger Tesla past niet in duurzame portefeuille
- Onveilige werkomstandigheden en een beperkt milieubeleid. ASN Bank belegt niet langer in Tesla. Lees hier meer over de redenen.
- Ambient Chaos
- How many days since specific types of incidents
- With Leaps and Bounds, Parkour Athletes Turn Off the Lights in Paris
- As an energy crisis looms, nimble young activists are using superhero-like moves to switch off wasteful lights that stores leave on all night.
- This 33-year-old made more than 1,000 Wikipedia bios for unknown female scientists
- Jessica Wade began writing Wikipedia biographies about women and minority scientists who never got their due — from employers, from other scientists, from the public.
- Do we really care more about Van Gogh’s sunflowers than real ones?
- The Just Stop Oil activists are accused of using tactics that will backfire. But ‘respectable’ protest is roundly ignored
- DuckDuckGo for Mac is now available for public testing
- Its new Duck Player makes YouTube browsing more private
- List of common misconceptions