SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-astronauts-launch-from-america-in-historic-test-flight-of-spacex-crew-dragon
NASA
NASA Astronauts Launch from America in Historic Test Flight of SpaceX Crew Dragon
For the first time in history, NASA astronauts have launched from American soil in a commercially built and operated American crew spacecraft on its way to the International Space Station.
A 1/48 scale model of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket https://bps.space/falcon-heavy
Blur Tools for Signal https://signal.org/blog/blur-tools/
Signal
Blur tools for Signal
Right now, people around the world are marching and protesting against racism and police brutality, outraged by the most recent police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. At Signal, we support the people who have gone into the streets to make their…
Cryo-electron microscopy breaks a key barrier https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01658-1
Nature
‘It opens up a whole new universe’: Revolutionary microscopy technique sees individual atoms for first time
Nature - Cryo-electron microscopy breaks a key barrier that will allow the workings of proteins to be probed in unprecedented detail.
New slats make the Golden Gate Bridge sound like a David Lynch movie https://www.kqed.org/arts/13881451/the-golden-gate-bridge-sounds-like-a-david-lynch-movie-now
KQED
Why the Golden Gate Bridge Is Now a Giant Orange Wheezing Kazoo | KQED
What in the world is that strange sound coming from the Golden Gate Bridge? Let us explain.
New inline assembly syntax available in Rust nightly https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2020/06/08/new-inline-asm.html
Create diagrams with code using Graphviz https://ncona.com/2020/06/create-diagrams-with-code-using-graphviz/
Ncona
Create diagrams with code using Graphviz
Have you ever had to draw an architecture diagram and found the repetitive clicking and dragging tedious? Did you have to do modifications to that diagram and found it complicated?
Graphviz is an open source graph visualization software that allows us to…
Graphviz is an open source graph visualization software that allows us to…
MIT Ends Elsevier Negotiations https://news.mit.edu/2020/guided-by-open-access-principles-mit-ends-elsevier-negotiations-0611
MIT News
MIT, guided by open access principles, ends Elsevier negotiations
Standing by its commitment to provide equitable and open access to scholarship, MIT has ended negotiations with Elsevier for a new journals contract. Elsevier failed to present a proposal that aligned with the principles of the MIT Framework for Publisher…
A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website https://coding.napolux.com/a-facebook-crawler-was-making-7m-requests-per-day-to-my-stupid-website/
Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser http://cs-online.club
Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981) https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk.html
SQLite as an Application File Format (2014) https://sqlite.org/appfileformat.html
Zoom to bring end-to-end encryption to all users, including non-paying https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/06/17/end-to-end-encryption-update/
Zoom Blog
End-to-End Encryption Update
Since releasing the draft design of Zoom’s end-to-end encryption (E2EE) on May 22, we have engaged with a number of organizations to gather feedback.