markjgsmith

2020/01/08 #

Today’s links:

  • The Lost Landscapes of San Francisco - A Benefit for the Internet Archive - This fund raising event looks pretty fun, I wish I had more time to explore some of the historical footage on the internet archiveblog.archive.org #

  • Probably a lot of people are not aware of the fact that Node.js is written in the C++stackoverflow.com #

  • ICANN’s founding chairman joins the battle to keep .org out of private handswww.theverge.com #

  • Opera 66 initial release makes it easier to reopen closed tabs and to access extensionsblogs.opera.com #

  • Swissted is a project by Mike Joyce where he redesigned old punk, hardcore, and indie rock show flyers into Swiss modern posters - This is an attempt to bring the Sonic Youth poster to life with animationcodepen.io #

  • Firefox 72 - Mozilla have moved to a 4 week release cycle so expect releases more often but with less features in each release, also the javascript nullish coalescing operator looks useful, and a bunch of css stuff that I do t quite understand but sounds coolhacks.mozilla.org #

  • Notes on Can Tho - Urban life in the Mekong Delta - James Clark shares another great photowalk, this time of Vietnam’s 5th largest city - “Can Tho is a big city that still has a rural heart”www.nomadicnotes.com #

  • The Cornell Note-taking System - Seems like a pretty good notes taking strategy, simple and easy to rememberlsc.cornell.edu #

  • Lab-grown food will soon destroy farming – and save the planet - Cheaper, healthier, better for the environment, better for non-human animals and enough food to feed everyone on earthwww.theguardian.com #

  • The stack I use to run this blog - I'm always impressed by the quality and quantity of the writing from Flavio Copes, so it's interesting to read about his setupflaviocopes.com #

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