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Climate change might be real if landfills begin to spontaneously combust: gizmodo.com/an-enormo...…
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An excellent set of bests practices for "textual websites": seirdy.one/2020/11/2... (yeah, after trying all the static website generators, it's static-html-or-bust for me too)…
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The soundscape on Mars…
Not-so-uniquely stupid
From Jonathan Haidt's recent article in the Atlantic: The high point of techno-democratic optimism was arguably 2011, a year that began with the Arab Spring and ended with the global Occupy movem…
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TIL Alexander Stepanov (of Elements of Programming) wrote a long overview of Scheme: stepanovpapers.com/schemenot... !…
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An explanation for relative stability being not normal (from this HN thread): > After WWII many veterans took advantage of the free education offered by the GI Bill. That gave us a lot of highly e…
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"Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe" (2015) is a B-movie that packs in a whole Netflix season in just under 2 hours.…
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From James Clear: > "If you know where you want to go in life, people tend to help or get out of the way. > Both of those are useful." I need to accept this in my life :-|…
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This should really boost the world of Interactive-Fiction: intfiction.org/t/inform-... Now that github.com/ganelson/... is open source, folks can reverse engineer bits-and-pieces, and make new things…
Low-code/no-code
Great write-up: tomasp.net/blog/2022... Also, TIL how Hypercard allowed a "layered approach" to permissions for modification that I haven't seen anywhere else:…
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Yanis Varoufakis on “techno-feudalism”: youtu.be/wNf3dN0VX...…