1937 film explains how a car differential works https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/classic-cars/a25833/1937-film-perfectly-explains-how-a-car-differential-works/
Road & Track
1937 Film Perfectly Explains How a Car Differential Works
Even if you already understand the concept, this vintage visual illustration breaks it down beautifully.
Print this file, your printer will jam (2008) https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200811/print_this_file_your_printer_will_jam.html
Just Wanted to Say Thanks https://github.com/compumike/hairpin-proxy/issues/5
GitHub
Just wanted to say thanks · Issue #5 · compumike/hairpin-proxy
Like the subject says I just wanted to thank you for this brilliant solution to this annoying problem! I am starting to use Linode's managed Kubernetes and they don't have yet an annotation...
Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America? https://www.grubstreet.com/2020/12/2020-bucatini-shortage-investigation.html
Grub Street
What the Hole Is Going On?
What the hole is going on?
Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating https://joemorrison.substack.com/p/google-maps-moat-is-evaporating
A Closer Look with Joe Morrison
Google Maps' Moat is Evaporating
The views expressed in this newsletter are solely my own, and do not represent the views of my employer. Well, they aren’t solely my own, because I’ve stolen most of them from people smarter than me. But, you get what I’m saying. If you work at the intersection…
TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem https://omar.website/tabfs/
omar.website
TabFS
A browser extension that mounts your browser tabs as a filesystem on your computer.
California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2149
EU Signs €145B Declaration to Develop Next Gen Processors and 2nm Technology https://www.eetimes.eu/eu-signs-e145bn-declaration-to-develop-next-gen-processors-and-2nm-technology/
EE Times Europe
EU Signs €145bn Declaration to Develop Next Gen Processors and 2nm Technology - EE Times Europe
17 EU member states signed a joint declaration to commit to work together in developing next generation, trusted low-power embedded processors.
A half-hour to learn Rust https://fasterthanli.me/articles/a-half-hour-to-learn-rust
fasterthanli.me
A half-hour to learn Rust
In order to increase fluency in a programming language, one has to read a lot of it.
But how can you read a lot of it if you don’t know what it means?
In this article, instead of focusing on one or...
But how can you read a lot of it if you don’t know what it means?
In this article, instead of focusing on one or...
On Repl-Driven Programming http://mikelevins.github.io/posts/2020-12-18-repl-driven/
Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend https://twitter.com/nandoodles/status/1345774768746852353
X (formerly Twitter)
Nandini Jammi (@nandoodles) on X
The biggest story in tech no one’s talking about is Uber discovering they’d been defrauded out of $100M - or 2/3 of their ad spend.
And all bc Sleeping Giants kept bugging them to block their ads on Breitbart.
And all bc Sleeping Giants kept bugging them to block their ads on Breitbart.
USA vs. Julian Assange Judgment https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/USA-v-Assange-judgment-040121.pdf
Ditherpunk: The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering https://surma.dev/things/ditherpunk/
surma.dev
Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering — surma.dev
I always loved the visual aesthetic of dithering but never knew how it’s done. So I did some research. This article may contain traces of nostalgia and none of Lena.
GitHub is fully available in Iran https://github.blog/2021-01-05-advancing-developer-freedom-github-is-fully-available-in-iran/
The GitHub Blog
Advancing developer freedom: GitHub is fully available in Iran
All developers should be free to use GitHub, no matter where they live. At the same time, GitHub respects and abides by US law, which means government sanctions have limited our ability to provide developers in some countries the full range of GitHub services.
What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry https://www.bti360.com/what-ive-learned-in-45-years-in-the-software-industry/
Bti360
What I've Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry
BTI360 teammate Joel Goldberg recently retired after working in the software industry for over four decades. When he left he shared with our team some of the lessons he learned over his career. With his...
GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/gnome-has-no-thumbnails-in-the-file-picker.html
jayfax.neocities.org
GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker (and my toilets are blocked)
GNOME filepicker and my toilets are broken because of culture of mediocrity.