Critiquing apps, libraries, and code Chelsea Troy wrote a thread on Twitter about critiquing apps and libraries as you would art. Her four main points: Who is the creator’s audience? What are the creator’s goals? Who is your audience (in writing the critique)? What are your goals? She goes on to show how …

City Guesser Via Recomendo, City Guesser is a fun game in which you plot the location of a city or monument on a map, purely based on what you can figure out from first-person walking videos.

Backlinks 2021-05-09 Via Recomendo, City Guesser is a fun game in which you plot the location of a city or monument on a map, purely based on what you can figure out from first-person walking videos. 2021-01-24 Via Recomendo: The Emotion Machine has a large collection of quick and easy tips to boost dopamine, …

Relearning HTML Danny Guo relearned HTML and shared what he learned in the process. It’s a nice look at modern elements you may have missed and limitations the platform still has. Also includes a mention of WebComponents.org, which is a directory of custom elements you can pick up and use.

SQL.js accessing a database on a static host phiresky has wired up SQL.js to a static SQLite file via HTTP range queries and that is some fancy SQLite magic.

Sky Pool Pretty sure I’d be deeply uncomfortable swimming in the Sky Pool, which is 115 feet above a London street. The shots make it look like an impossible construction, but you can just make out a couple of steel reinforcements in one of the pictures. Fatality rate among fully vaccinated is not precisely known …

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 …