Eleanor Lutz - An Orbit Map of the Solar System
A lovely visualisation of asteroids in our solar system.
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A lovely visualisation of asteroids in our solar system.
An excellent collection of advice and examples for making websites responsive and accessibile (responsive + accessible = responsible).
Huh. I don’t think I ever thought about nesting media queries …and yet I’m pleasantly surprised that it works!
Scrimshaws and sketches.
Feels like a Zooniverse project waiting to happen.
Remember when I wrote about Web Audio weirdness on iOS? Well, this is a nice little library that wraps up the same hacky solution that I ended up using.
It’s always gratifying when something you do—especially something that feels so hacky—turns out to be independently invented elsewhere.
A Creative Commons licensed web book that you can read online.
Carbon dioxide removal at a climate-significant scale is one of the most complex endeavors we can imagine, interlocking technologies, social systems, economies, transportation systems, agricultural systems, and, of course, the political economy required to fund it. This primer aims to lower the learning curve for action by putting as many facts as possible in the hands of the people who will take on this challenge. This book can eliminate much uncertainty and fear, and, we hope, speed the process of getting real solutions into the field.
Removing
media
support from HTML video was a mistake.
Damn right! It was basically Hixie throwing a strop, trying to sabotage responsive images. Considering how hard it is usually to remove a shipped feature from browsers, it’s bizarre that a good working feature was pulled out of production.
This looks like it’ll be a good event: a keynote from Vint Cerf and talks from Val Head, Rachel Andrew, Sara Soueidan, and others.
Best of all, it’s free!
This sounds a lot like Do Not Track …but looking at the spec, the interesting part is the way that this is designed to work in combination with legal frameworks. That’s smart. I don’t think a purely technical solution is workable (as we saw with Do Not Track).
Working out of my living room means anyone on a video call with me can see that the Christmas tree is still up.
If someone mentions it, I ask if they’re with the Christmas Police (because if they are, they have to tell me—that’s the law).
Colin wrote about his typical day and suggested I do the same.
Y’know, in the Before Times I think this would’ve been trickier. What with travelling and speaking, I didn’t really have a “typical” day …and I liked it that way. Now, thanks to The Situation, my days are all pretty similar.
That’s a typical work day. My work week is Monday to Thursday. I switched over to a four-day week when The Situation hit, and now I don’t ever want to go back. It means making less money, but it’s worth it for a three day weekend.
My typical weekend involves more mandolin playing, more reading, more movies, and even better meals. I’ll also do some chores: clean the floors; back up my data.
Cynicism is a theory of everything.
—Rutger Bregman
You need skin. Take good care of it. Don’t harm a hair of it. What would you do without it? Keep it clean. Soapy water every day will wash the dirt and smells away ’cause you need skin.
This is a useful technique that future me is almost certainly going to need at some point.
Reading Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman, translated by Elizabeth Manton and Erica Moore.
It’s like Boris Johnson’s government came up with the current mix of activities for Donald Trump:
Rule 1: You’re not allowed to post on Facebook or Instagram anymore.
Rule 2: You can still launch nuclear missiles.
Another nice alternative to Google Analytics with a focus on privacy.
This is a very thoughtful and measured response to Alex’s post Platform Adjacency Theory.
Unlike Alex, the author doesn’t fire off cheap shots.
Also, I’m really intrigued by the idea of certificate authorities for hardware APIs.