Links
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Timezones in Python - Benjamin “Zags” Zagorsky (PDF)
I keep referring to bits of this, so I should save it. Handy examples of right and wrong ways to do times. (via Simon Willison)
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The Mega-Meldrew Point (Updated) – BrokenTV
This year I’ll be as old as Captain Mainwearing in ‘Dad’s Army’. (via the B3ta newsletter)
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Café Royal Books
Lovely series of small photo books. (via the Guardian)
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Tree views in CSS
A collapsible tree view made out of lists and detail elements, no JavaScript. Witchcraft. (via Adactio)
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Supply Studies Syllabus - Supply Studies
“This document … presents a series of readings in areas of interest to the critical study of logistics.” Looks fascinating. (via Scope of Work)
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Atlas Minor • 2022 Rotation
I haven’t heard any of these albums yet, but the descriptions are excellent.
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How To Develop Good Taste, Pt. 1 — Die, Workwear!
On how taste, especially in clothing, has changed and become more fragmented.
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blissblog: A Blogging Renaissance
Simon Reynolds on the joys of blogging, after twenty years of it. Does he have more active blogs than anyone else?
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what do you want from the internet? - by Brian Feldman
“It’s been weird to watch people who have never had to leave an internet haunt before be confronted with an eviction.”
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In Search of Perfection: Plato’s Double Arrow (Rail Symbol 2, Nick Job for Network Rail, 2022) – The Beauty of Transport
On the tweaks made for the second ever definitive version of the national rail symbol.
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Exit, by Hari Kunzru
On the early Wired UK, and the desire of libertarians to escape political, social and financial constraints.
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Said the Gramophone: BEST SONGS OF 2022
It’s the happiest time of the year. (NB: Not necessarily happy songs.)
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A shortcut to help you schedule and launch your Fitness+ workouts from your calendar app : AppleFitnessPlus
Not sure I’d use this, but it’s a neat use of Shortcuts.
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Best Smart Heating Controls - Compatibility Guide
Thorough-looking survey of smart thermostats for UK boilers. (via FaveJet)
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How to buy a social network, with Tumblr CEO Matt Mullenweg - The Verge
Good, long interview. On Twitter’s financial situation: “That’s a pickle.”
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Stuff MetaFilter Likes? : MetaFilterMeta
Accurate.
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I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person
”Eventually, we will stop pretending that the internet is a sideshow and that our real culture, the better culture, is somewhere else.” (via Web Curios)
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Katherine Rundell · Consider the Hummingbird · LRB 3 November 2022
“…in 1888 an auction house in London sold 400,000 hummingbird skins in one single, bloody afternoon.”
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Afro-Cuban Kissa by Kissa — Roden Newsletter Archive
The essay about drumming is lovely.
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A year of new avenues
“I want to insist on an amateur internet; a garage internet; a public library internet; a kitchen table internet. Now, at last, in 2023, I want to tell the tech CEOs and venture capitalists: pipe down. Buzz off. Go fave each other’s tweets.”
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How to transfigure wireframes into HTML - HTMHell
Nice description of the thinking and semantics involved.
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The Online Photographer: Color Management Made Very Simple (for Beginners and Others)
I was surprised how readable and understandable that was, given how my eyes usually glaze over at this stuff.
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An Interactive Guide to Flexbox in CSS
I thought I broadly understood flexbox but this brilliant guide made me realise how little I properly understood. (via Adactio)
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Write.as — A place for focused writing.
Not sure I’d seen this before. Seems like a good, simple, blogging site with email subscriptions, micropayments, ActivityPub, etc.
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Defective Altruism ❧ Current Affairs
“I think it tells you quite a lot about Effective Altruism that someone can say in all seriousness ‘I’ve decided to stop working on evidence-backed poverty relief programs and start working on stopping Skynet from The Terminator, because I think it is the most rational use of my time.’”
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Fediverse bots | Botwiki
Listing bots that are on Mastodon.
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Notes on operating fediverse services (Mastodon, Pleroma etc) from an English law point of view - decoded.legal: Internet, telecoms and tech law decoded.
No DCMA to deal with like those in the US, but possibly some other things. (via rachelcoldicutt)
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How a Ghostwriter Makes $200,000 a Year Writing Tweets for Top Silicon Valley Investors
“We’ve been living in the metaverse for 15 years. We live in a technology-mediated reality. There are no facts. Narrative is the only thing that matters. Everything is propaganda.” (via Money Stuff)
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Welcome to hell, Elon - The Verge
“The essential truth of every social network is that the product is content moderation, and everyone hates the people who decide how content moderation works.”