NASA’s Visual Universe
An interesting way of navigating through a massive amount of archival imagery from NASA.
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Gutenberg and the Internet
Steven Pemberton’s presentation on the printing press, the internet, Moore’s Law, and exponential growth.
Killed by Google - The Google Graveyard & Cemetery
147 dead properties and counting.
Brendan Dawes - The Art of Cybersecurity
Some lovely data visualisation by Brendan:
The work features three main components — the threats, represented by black obelisk style objects, the system which detects and deals with these threats, represented by an organic mesh like structure, and finally the creativity that is allowed to flow because the threats have been neutralised.
HTML periodical table (built with CSS grid)
This is a nifty visualisation by Hui Jing. It’s really handy to have elements categorised like this:
- Root elements
- Scripting
- Interactive elements
- Document metadata
- Edits
- Tabular data
- Grouping content
- Embedded content
- Forms
- Sections
- Text-level semantics
First Web browser revived during hackathon - YouTube
This is the lovely little film about our WorldWideWeb hack project. It was shown yesterday at CERN during the Web@30 celebrations. That was quite a special moment.
Earthrise on Vimeo
Jim Lovell, Frank Borman, and Bill Anders describe the overview effect they experienced on the Apollo 8 mission …and that photo.
Homework I Gave Web Designers - Cloud Four
This is such a great excercise for teaching the separation of structure and presentation—I could imagine using something like this at Codebar.
I commissioned an oil painting of Barbra Streisand’s cloned dogs
There’s something deliciously appropriate about using a painting cloning service to clone a photograph of some cloned dogs.
“Did you just order an oil painting of Barbra Streisand’s dogs?” is the most Simon and Natalie thing ever.
Although this comes close:
Sparkline Sound-Off – Chris Burnell
Chris has made sonic sparklines on his site too, but they’re far more musical than mine. Here’s his explanation of how he did it.
An exercise in progressive enhancement - DEV Community 👩💻👨💻
Hui-Jing talks through her process of building a to-do app on Glitch using a progressive enhancement mindset:
I found that HTML out-of-the-box takes care of a lot of things when it comes to collecting user inputs from the front-end, which resulted in much less code required. This is not to say client-side Javascript is bad, because the experience was smoother (and faster) when I used it for updating content.
A Briefer History of Time
You can read all of Stephen Hawking’s 2008 book online as a web book (kind of like Resilient Web Design).
Write on your own website | Brad Frost
Writing on your own website associates your thoughts and ideas with you as a person. Having a distinct website design helps strengthen that association. Writing for another publication you get a little circular avatar at the beginning of the post and a brief bio at the end of the post, and that’s about it. People will remember the publication, but probably not your name.
WorldWideWeb coverage
Remy’s keeping a list of hyperlinks to stories covering our recent hack week at CERN.
Emoji Avatars for My Website • Aaron Parecki
Oh, Aaron!
For my hack day project I made the avatar on each post in my website change depending on the emoji I use in the post!
The timelessness of The Ballad of Halo Jones, the girl who got out | FactorDaily
The Ballad Of Halo Jones is 35 years old this year.
Where did she go? Out.
What did she do? Everything.
indiekit | An IndieWeb publishing toolkit
Paul is making a micropub endpoint for static sites—very cool!
n-gate.com. we can’t both be right.
Hacker News is an echo chamber focusing on computer posturing and self-aggrandizement. It is run by Paul Graham’s investment fund and sociopath incubator, Y Combinator.
There’s never been any reason to visit Hacker News, but now you really don’t need to ever go there. This site posts a weekly roundup, complete with commentary that’s even more snarky than Hacker News.
Here’s a fairly typical summary of a fairly typical thread:
A programmer at a spamhouse is transported to a world where people are not judged by the color scheme of their Atom window, but by the character assessment and culture fit reports they write about potential new hires. Hackernews spends a lot of time discussing how to bullshit people like the author into hiring them. A few Hackernews struggle with the knowledge that there are people who contribute to business without involving Git. Furious debates about “title inflation” break out amongst people who type javascript into computers and straight-facedly refer to themselves as “engineers”.
Oh, and I love the “about” page.
nexus-project / nexus-browser · GitLab
Here’s the source code for the WorldWideWeb project we did at CERN.
WWW: Where’s the Writable Web?
Prompted by our time at CERN, Remy ponders why web browsers (quite quickly) diverged from the original vision of being read/write software.