Things I Wish I’d Known About CSS | CSS For Designers

Like many developers, I taught myself to code from a combination of books and looking at source code. Here are some of things I wish I’d been aware of earlier in my CSS journey.

Principles, Patterns, and Practices for Effective Infrastructure as Code

Deliver Infrastructure and Software running on it Rapidly and Reliably at Scale

The Concorde Fallacy and why people make bad decisions - Creative Samba

Why Informing your customers of a sunk cost can actually help you increase your sales.

6 Powerful CSS Techniques You Can Use Instead of Javascript

There are a lot of discussions about CSS vs. JavaScript and the battle is getting seriously once CSS...

Brownian motion with Python

We show how to emulate Brownian motion, the most famous stochastic process used in a wide range of applications, using simple Python code.

Nmap — A Guide To The Greatest Scanning Tool Of All Time

Network-Mapper (NMap), is the most famous scanning tool used by penetration testers. In this article, we will look at some core features…

Automate Your Neural Network Training With PyTorch Lightning

PyTorch Lightning will automate your neural network training while staying your code simple, clean and flexible. If you’re a researcher you

Penrose: from mathematical notation to beautiful diagrams

Materials from our SIGGRAPH '20 paper.

How to Make Cannabutter at Home - Best Weed Butter Recipe

A beginner-friendly guide to making weed butter at home.

An absurdist baseball game is tearing up the internet, thanks to fans

Fans create much of what makes Blaseball special, and they’re immune from the threat of incineration by rogue umpires

Aretha Franklin - Think (feat. The Blues Brothers) - 1080p Full HD

Aretha Franklin performing 'Think' in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers.

Sweatpants Forever: How the Fashion Industry Collapsed (Published 2020)

Even before the pandemic, it had started to unravel. What happens now that no one has a reason to dress up?

Dan Aykroyd and John Landis: how we made The Blues Brothers

‘For some of the crew working nights on the film, cocaine was almost like coffee. I never liked it myself but I wasn’t going to police others’ behaviour’

It Took Years to Formulate, But This Is the Absolute Best Lentil Soup

You can cook this with whatever you have on hand right now.

Geometric Folding Algorithms: Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra

This course focuses on the algorithms for analyzing and designing geometric foldings. Topics include reconfiguration of foldable structures, linkages made from one-dimensional rods connected by hinges, folding two-dimensional paper (origami), and unfolding and folding…

The Simple Joys of Tamarind

Sweet, sour and tender under its brittle shell, the fruit’s pulp is equally at home in desserts and savory dishes.

Paul Klemperer

Unraveling the mystery of a stolen ceremonial shield - High Country News

How a sacred object from the Pueblo of Acoma turned up at a Paris auction house, and how the tribe fought for its return.

When Should You Not Use Rails?

SEO How-to, Part 10: Redesigns, Migrations, URL Changes | Practical Ecommer

Changes in content, linking, and URL structure can dramatically impact organic search performance. Thus it's critical to understand the search engine risks and rewards from a new design before you start developing it. This is the 10th installment in my "SEO How-to" series.

The Highest Good: An Introduction To The 4 Stoic Virtues

Summum Bonum was the expression from Cicero, Rome’s greatest orator. In Latin, it means “the highest good.” And what is the highest good? What is it that we are supposed to be aiming for in this life? To the Stoics, the answer is virtue. They said that everything we face in life…

Forget virality: This company is betting on podcasts that almost no one wil

Artifact is producing podcasts that only you and 4 friends will ever want.

Buster Keaton’s Last Stand

Production for The General involved guns, bombs, fires, and the blowing up of a bridge in a tiny Oregon town.

The First Steps in Adding Ecommerce to a Brick-and-mortar Store

Brick-and-mortar retail businesses are turning toward ecommerce to generate revenue — online and click-and-collect. As they make this digital transformation, those merchants will likely have questions about ecommerce platforms, themes, and design. While all of these are…

The Misplaced Wallet and The Year of Delightful Deception

A college student’s lost-and-then-found wallet leads to a theatrical treasure hunt complete with hollowed-out library books, a disappearing magician, and an unforgettable year of campy one-upmanship.

Is Your Chip Card Secure? Much Depends on Where You Bank

Chip-based credit and debit cards are designed to make it infeasible for skimming devices or malware to clone your card when you pay for something by dipping the chip instead of swiping the stripe. But a recent series of malware…

A Legal Deep Dive on Mexico’s Disastrous New Copyright Law | Electronic Fro

Mexico has just adopted a terrible new copyright law, thanks to pressure from the United States (and specifically from the copyright maximalists that hold outsized influence on US foreign

Monitoring demystified: A guide for logging, tracing, metrics | TechBeacon

6 Ways to Build a Roth Retirement Nest Egg

Building up a Roth nest egg can pay off in spades for retirees.

Types of Knee Replacement Options

Learn about the different surgical options for knee replacement, approaches, and recovery periods to help you make an informed decision.

Cryin’, Dyin’, or Goin’ Somewhere: A Country Music Reading List

Although the sound of the music has changed, country’s themes have endured.

Gifsicle: Command-Line Animated GIFs

Gifsicle is a powerful, simple command line tool for creating, editing, and optimizing animated GIFs.

Sentinel Playground | Sentinel Hub

Sentinel-2 L1C imagery taken on October 15, 2024

The State of Ruby 3 Typing | Square Corner Blog

Introducing RBS, Ruby’s new type signature language

A Border Town Built for Vice

Along the murky border of China and Myanmar is a no-man’s-land where prostitution is unchecked, gambling is rampant, and the tiger bone wine flows freely.

‘Amazing, Isn’t It?’ Long Sought Blood Test for Alzheimer’s in Reach

Scientists say such tests could be available in a few years, speeding research for treatments and providing a diagnosis for dementia patients who want to know if they have Alzheimer’s disease.

12 Forgotten Classics by Women-Led New Wave Bands (Published 2020)

Listen to lesser-known songs by Nervus Rex, Josie Cotton, the Waitresses and more that arrived in the early 1980s.

Product Metrics: Key Insights for Discovery

Unlock valuable insights for effective discovery by decoding product metrics. Learn how to leverage these metrics to make informed decisions and optimize your product development process.

The Math of Social Distancing Is a Lesson in Geometry

How to safely reopen offices, schools and other public spaces while keeping people six feet apart comes down to a question mathematicians have been studying for centuries.

A concise guide to Docker

There are several courses available on this topic. Some of them are very short and do not serve any other purpose than a ‘Getting started…

Recurrency is taking on giants like SAP with a modern twist on ERP

Recurrency, a member of the Summer 2020 Y Combinator cohort, was started by a 21 year old just out of college. He decided to take on a highly established

10 Best Ecommerce Platforms Compared & Rated For 2020

Our top ecommerce builders are based on objective performance data, feature set & value. Check out ecommerce platforms now.

Hate for Sale by Pretenders

Hate for Sale by Pretenders album reviews & Metacritic score: The 11th full-length studio release for the Chrissie Hynde-led rock band was produced by Stephen Street....

Get Ripped with This No-Equipment 6-Move Workout

Use tempo and isometrics to improve your bodyweight routine

8 CSS Best Practices to Keep in Mind

This past week I had an opportunity to browse through a company's coding guideline, some of which I f...

How Shazam works

BCF Toys - Index

To Get More Replies, Say Less

This is a story of how a software company was able to start a conversation with 8x more of their users by cutting the length of their emails by 90%. You could set up a test of this method in less than an hour. The Problem One of the most

If language began in the hands, why did it ever leave? | Aeon Essays

If language began with gestures around a campfire and secret signals on hunts, why did speech come to dominate communication?

Top 6 Python Libraries for Visualization: Which one to Use?

Confused about which Visualization Tool to Use? I Broke Down the Pros and Cons of Each Libary for You