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Noted by Damian Cugley .
Micro.blog, a micro-blogging site with lots of interop with other platforms now has free hosting for teachers and nurses. If you know a teacher or nurse who might enjoy Micro.blog, let them know!
#IndieWeb #Micro.blog
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Noted by Damian Cugley .
Here is a fun, short video of people from around the world beings asked for the most popular tongue-twister in their country.
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Noted by Damian Cugley .
Here’s a neat idea (for people using Unix-like systems): add the venerable Fortune program to your login, bit replace its database of epigrams with reminders to yourself of useful command-line tools you have installed.
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Noted by Damian Cugley .
AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model. Editorial from 404 Media arguing that journalism not written by humans is not worth the e it is printed on.
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Noted by Damian Cugley .
Strunk & White’s classic style guide has changed its recommendations a little over the decades, including on the question of whether ‘junior’ used to differentiate two people with the same name is part of their name or is a parenthetical (William Strunk Jr versus WIlliam Strunk, jr).
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Noted by Damian Cugley .
As a programmer, I am often required to tell higher-ups that their suggestion of first-name, last-name fields is not a good way to store names of arbitrary humans. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) wrote a useful essay elaborating on this called Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names, which I think is good and useful—though not to be taken without some interpretation.
Please do not title your own listicle Falsehoods Programmers Believe About X. Reserve that prefix for this essay and invent your own snappy title.
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Noted by Damian Cugley .
On July 13th 2005, Jacob Kaplan-Moss made the first commit to the public repository that would become Django. This is being celebrated at various events during the year. While awaiting an event near you, here is Simon Willison’s talk on Django’s origins from 2015.
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Noted by Damian Cugley .
Parsing MIDI messages in Rust (Nicole Tietz-Sokolskaya). The venerable MIDI protocol is a beautifully simple way to control muscial instruments. This article breaks down what MIDI is, why it’s cool, and how you might go about processing MIDI content in the programming language Rust.
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The design process for the typeface Gosh by Kyle Benson
(Via Gosh by Very Cool Studio - Future Fonts)
Noted by Damian Cugley .
