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Viral Memes
Backlinks 2020-07-12 This is definitely a moment in time. Twitter is aflutter with cakes. But first, bagels cut the wrong way and, in reply, a pumpkin pie cut even wronger. Tasty’s viral cake video that started it all and more Viral Memes
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Art Resources
Aggregators Free Illustrations links to a whole bunch of places to get freely usable art Open Source Vectors undraw illustrations Backlinks 2020-06-13 This looks like a fabulous addition to Art Resources: Nappy: Beautiful high-res and free photos of black and brown people. This can help ensure that there’s better representation on websites, etc.
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2020-07-09
hnrss gives you feeds for Hacker News Hacker News has a lot of links roll through. I generally visit the home page a couple of times a day to keep up. hnrss provides a useful assortment of RSS feeds for HN. I’m going to try the frontpage feed. I saw a suggestion for https://hnrss.org/newest?points=10 which will catch a bunch of the new stuff, but not everything because of the points threshold.
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RSS
Backlinks 2020-07-09 Hacker News has a lot of links roll through. I generally visit the home page a couple of times a day to keep up. hnrss provides a useful assortment of RSS feeds for HN. I’m going to try the frontpage feed. I saw a suggestion for https://hnrss.org/newest?points=10 which will catch a bunch of the new stuff, but not everything because of the points threshold. That seems like too much to me, but I’ll track it for later.
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2020-07-03
Mask wearing videos Dr. Van Dyken (a surgeon, not a researcher) posted a video on YouTube about Mask wearing and Hypercapnia. In other words: Does wearing a mask increase your personal CO2 levels dangerously? Short answer: No, because CO2 is tiny compared to COVID-19. Jeremy Howard does a demonstration of this as well.
How Fauci and others approach staying safe The Washington Post spoke to Fauci and others about how they’re staying safe from COVID-19.
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COVID-19
Dashboards Covid Act Now — Dashboard of how well each state has the epidemic under control. How We Reopen Safely — Updated dashboard with information about where each state sits right now on criteria for a safe reopening. Johns Hopkins dashboard — Just the raw numbers per region (global) Rt Covid-19 — Shows where each state is at in rate of spread Helpful information The Center for Evidence-Based Medicine page about COVID-19 The Risks — Know Them — Avoid Them — Immunologist Erin Bromage’s roundup of the science around avoiding catching COVID-19 as things reopen.
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2020-07-02
LWN on latest Go generics proposal Ben Hoyt, writing for LWN, wrote an excellent roundup of the latest generics proposal for Go. Linked from there is Bryan Mills’s repository of experiments and thoughts about the proposal.
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Go
Backlinks 2020-07-02 Ben Hoyt, writing for LWN, wrote an excellent roundup of the latest generics proposal for Go. Linked from there is Bryan Mills’s repository of experiments and thoughts about the proposal. 2020-05-20 Here’s an open source repository for learning Go: https://github.com/inancgumus/learngo It’s the background for Learn Go Programming.com 2020-04-10 I like working with Testify as a more ergonomic way to write tests in Go.
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2020-07-01
How to anti-racism Dr. David Campt’s Message to White Allies from A Black Anti-Racism Expert: You’re Doing It Wrong provides a good Anti-Racism message for actually helping to move conversations forward instead of shutting them down.
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Anti-Racism
Backlinks 2020-07-01 Dr. David Campt’s Message to White Allies from A Black Anti-Racism Expert: You’re Doing It Wrong provides a good Anti-Racism message for actually helping to move conversations forward instead of shutting them down. 2020-06-19 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has an amazing ability to speak clearly about a number of issues important for our times. Her answer for what does defund the police look like? was excellent.
