A quiet roadside revolution is boosting wildflowers https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/14/on-the-verge-a-quiet-roadside-revolution-is-boosting-wildflowers-aoe
the Guardian
On the verge: a quiet roadside revolution is boosting wildflowers
Projects to reduce grass cutting and increase the diversity of plants and wildlife along Britain’s roads are having dramatic results
4.2″ and 7.5″ NFC-powered e-Paper Displays Work without Battery https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/03/17/nfc-powered-e-paper-displays-work-without-battery/
CNX Software - Embedded Systems News
4.2" and 7.5" NFC-powered e-Paper Displays Work without Battery - CNX Software
Waveshare has launched 4.2" and 7.5" e-Paper displays that do not need battery and can be easily updated with your NFC enabled smartphone.
Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan Win Turing Award https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/technology/pixar-pioneers-win-1-million-turing-award.html
NY Times
Pixar Pioneers Win $1 Million Turing Award
Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan created computer techniques that remade animation, special effects, virtual reality and artificial intelligence.
Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management https://grocy.info/
Grocy
Grocy - ERP beyond your fridge
Grocy is a web-based self-hosted groceries & household management solution for your home. Open Source. Built with passion.
Speeding up Linux disk encryption https://blog.cloudflare.com/speeding-up-linux-disk-encryption/
The Cloudflare Blog
Speeding up Linux disk encryption
In this post, we will investigate the performance of disk encryption on Linux and explain how we made it at least two times faster for ourselves and our customers!
Getting started with bare-metal assembly https://johv.dk/blog/bare-metal-assembly-tutorial.html
Chrome phasing out support for User-Agent https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/03/chrome-phasing-user-agent/
InfoQ
Chrome Phasing out Support for User Agent
Google announced its decision to drop support for the User-Agent string in its Chrome browser. Instead, Chrome will offer a new API called Client Hints that will give the user greater control over which information is shared with websites.
Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible https://andregarzia.com/2020/03/private-client-side-only-pwas-are-hard-but-now-apple-made-them-impossible.html
Andregarzia
Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible. • AndreGarzia.com
AndreGarzia.com website
Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebook account https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7e599/zoom-ios-app-sends-data-to-facebook-even-if-you-dont-have-a-facebook-account
VICE
Zoom iOS App Sends Data to Facebook Even if You Don’t Have a Facebook Account
Zoom's privacy policy isn't explicit about the data transfer to Facebook at all.
Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2020/03/27/zoom/
Doc Searls Weblog
Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act
[21 April 2020—Hundreds of people are arriving here from this tweet, which calls me a “Harvard researcher” and suggests that this post and the three that follow are about “the ful…
New Grad vs. Senior Dev https://ericlippert.com/2020/03/27/new-grad-vs-senior-dev/
Fabulous adventures in coding
New grad vs senior dev
A student who I used to tutor in CS occasionally sent me a meme yesterday which showed “NEW GRAD vs SENIOR DEVELOPER”; the new grad is all caps yelling NO! YOU CAN’T JUST USE BRUT…
How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure https://mijailovic.net/2020/03/28/azure-money-burning/