Linklist 12 februari 2023
- ‘A growing threat to human health’: we are ill-equipped for the dangers of fungal infections
- About 2 million people die a year as a result of a core group of fungi, and the WHO is concerned we are unprepared for the future
- I just wanted to buy pants. How excessive JavaScript is costing you money
- A cautionary tale about our over dependence on client-side JavaScript.
- Uitdrukkingen | Genootschap Onze Taal
- Every Noise at Once
- ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed by Spotify
- Hidden harms of indoor air pollution — five steps to expose them
- Dirty outdoor air might grab the headlines, but learning how pollutants inside buildings form, accumulate and affect our health is equally crucial.
- Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count
- “As the adage goes, ‘you ship your org chart,’” said one current employee. “It’s chaos here right now, so we’re shipping chaos.”
- Layoffs.fyi
- Tech Layoff Tracker and Startup Layoff Lists
- Want to Delete Your Twitter DMs? Good Luck With That
- People in Europe are making GDPR requests to have their private messages erased, but Elon’s team is ignoring them.
- The Market for Lemons
- New web services are being built to a self-defeatingly low UX and performance standard, and existing experiences are now pervasively re-developed on unspeakably slow, JS-taxed stacks. At a business level, this is a disaster, raising the question: why are new teams buying into stacks that have failed so often before?