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Sometimes asking politely for people to be nice discourages nice people but does not deter assholes, so the effect is that you end up only interacting with assholes. You have accidentally created an ‘asshole filter’.
(Via @griffinkate on Twitter)
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Tutorials about new features of CSS aimed at people already experienced with CSS
(Via @terriblemia on Twitter)
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Short documentary about the 1-tonne fount imported from Hong Kong to print the the New Zealand Chinese Growers’ Monthly Journal and its relevance to Chinese New Zealanders.
(Via @klimtypefoundry on Twitter)
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Noted by Damian Cugley .
We are used to treating databases as a pluggable back-end for storing inert data for processing in our code, but the PostgreSQL database has many features for slicing and dicing the data and doing analysis than one might think.
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Short silent film of aerial footage from a dirigible piloted by Roy Knabenshue in 1914 over Chicago.
(Via Aerial Footage of Chicago from a Dirigible (1914))
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Noted by Damian Cugley .
Wrote some geometry code for a side project and two lines aren’t matching because of a floating point rounding error and I am kicking myself for not using fixed point arithmetic from the start.
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Recreating the logic board of the famous Macintosh SE/30
(Via Creating a “new” SE/30 logic board)
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Noted by Damian Cugley .
People have been playing Tetris using the dinky little NES controller for almost 40 years, but even so a new button-mashing technique is sparking a minor revolution.
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Sculptural artworks made entirely of black LEGO bricks.
(Via Building Black: Ekow Nimako’s All-Black Lego Sculptures)
Noted by Damian Cugley .
