Backlinks 2021-05-01 Solomon Hykes has been playing with Cue and linked to a resource I hadn’t seen before: Cuetorials 2021-04-03 This article explains the gotcha that is YAML’s implicit typing, suggesting using StrictYAML instead. Cue should also solve this problem, because of its well-constructed …

The unnecessity of Contributor License Agreements I’ve worked on a lot of Open Source in my career and contributor license agreements (CLAs) have been a normal part of the process for many of the projects. It turns out that there are good arguments to not use CLAs and then GitHub’s terms of service include …

Backlinks 2021-04-30 I’ve worked on a lot of Open Source in my career and contributor license agreements (CLAs) have been a normal part of the process for many of the projects. It turns out that there are good arguments to not use CLAs and then GitHub’s terms of service include a clause that essentially …

The Everdeck New (to me) in Board Games is The Everdeck, a collection of cards that can be used to play all sorts of games (standard 52-card games, Tarot, Werewolf, Letter Jam, The Mind, Hanabi, Lost Cities). Excess mortality in 2020 Kieran Healy has some excellent visualizations of excess deaths in 2020, which gives a …

Backlinks 2021-04-29 New (to me) in Board Games is The Everdeck, a collection of cards that can be used to play all sorts of games (standard 52-card games, Tarot, Werewolf, Letter Jam, The Mind, Hanabi, Lost Cities). 2020-04-24 Many great suggestions for online Board Games in this hacker news thread

New coronavirus safety guidelines The CDC yesterday released new guidelines for activities that are safe for the vaccinated and unvaccinated to avoid COVID-19 spread. Zeynep Tufecki argues that the way these guidelines have been communicated is too complicated and too timid.

Online slander sites Aaron Krolik of the NY Times wrote an article digging in to the world of online slander sites. They’re shady enough as-is, but the fact that the slander site people are directly connected to the “reputation cleanup” people is terrible. A story of climate change misinformation Some …

Vaccines appear to greatly reduce transmission From Yes, vaccines block most transmission of COVID-19: Taken together, the evidence shows that full vaccination with either mRNA vaccine cuts risk of infection by at least half after one dose, and by 75 to 90 percent two weeks after the second dose. Though less research …

In 2021, everyone is talking about “bitcoin”, “blockchain”, and “non-fungible tokens” (NFTs). Blockchains are cool technology, and investment dollars are chasing all kinds of businesses that are built upon it. In 2018, the generally awesome Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) …

React Flow As I’ve seen others note, this is a bad name because there’s already a “Flow” in the React ecosystem. Even so, React Flow looks like a very nice set of React Components for building connected node-based UIs. People selling vaccination cards Eric Feigl-Ding reports that people are …