Jsonbox.io – A Free HTTP Based JSON Storage

Free HTTP based JSON storage | Continue reading


@jsonbox.io | 4 years ago

Cunningham’s Law and Human Motivation

For spurring people into action, misinformation seems to do a better job than no information at all. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

New Guidelines for Sign in with Apple

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@developer.apple.com | 4 years ago

Vodacom and Smart Lab Open a Startup Accelerator in Tanzania

Vodacom is investing over $150,000 to empower youth in Tanzania. | Continue reading


@iafrikan.com | 4 years ago

How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely

Letting independent workers choose their locations can boost companies, employees, and even the economy, according to research by Prithwiraj Choudhury and colleagues. | Continue reading


@hbswk.hbs.edu | 4 years ago

Wizard of Oz Easter Egg

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@google.com | 4 years ago

Magnus: Shazam for Art

The Magnus App is like Shazam for Art. Take a photo of any artwork and the app tells you everything you need to know. It's free! Download it now! | Continue reading


@magnus.net | 4 years ago

Trump Blames Energy-Saving Light Bulbs for His Bright Orange Appearance

The fluorescent president complained: “I always look orange. And so do you. The light is the worst.” | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Taking a year to explain computer things

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@jvns.ca | 4 years ago

How I Healed My Anxiety with Inspiration from Life Coach Lavendaire

Chloe’ Flowers discusses how she healed her anxiety, with help from Life Coach Lavendaire. She also igives general ideas for coping mechanisms. | Continue reading


@alltheprettybirds.com | 4 years ago

Sleep Schedule and Age

From the teenage years to college to adulthood through retirement, sleep is all over the place at first but then converges towards consistency. | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 4 years ago

3 Links I Love: Basic Evolves, Lufthansa Design, a Very Crowded Market

This week’s featured link: The Evolution of Basic Economy – an Update – VisualApproach.ioYou might be surprised to learn that airlines have started using Basic Economy in different ways… | Continue reading


@crankyflier.com | 4 years ago

Why Amazon Trees Are Especially Vulnerable to This Year's Fires

Even trees that look as if they survived will die in the coming years, because they did not evolve fire-resistant features | Continue reading


@scientificamerican.com | 4 years ago

Photo Highlights From the Florida Keys

Photo series highlighting the Florida Keys | Continue reading


@landlopers.com | 4 years ago

A new methodology for sequencing viruses

NUS scientists have developed a more efficient method to sequence the complete genomes of infectious diseases carried by mosquitoes directly from patient samples. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

NASA's Mars 2020 comes full circle

Engineers took NASA's Mars 2020 for a spin on Aug. 29, 2019. The 2,300-pound (1,040-kilogram) Martian vehicle was rotated clockwise and counterclockwise at about 1 revolution per minute on what is called a spin table in the clean room of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Newly discovered comet is likely interstellar visitor

A newly discovered comet has excited the astronomical community this week because it appears to have originated from outside the solar system. The object—designated C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) - was discovered on Aug. 30, 2019, by Gennady Borisov at the MARGO observatory in Nauchnij, Cri … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Sequencing proteome of 1.77M-year-old Early Pleistocene rhinoceros tooth enamel

Palaeoproteomic analysis of dental enamel from an Early Pleistocene Stephanorhinus resolves the phylogeny of Eurasian Rhinocerotidae, by enabling the reconstruction of molecular evolution beyond the limits of ancient DNA preservation. | Continue reading


@nature.com | 4 years ago

Up and down the Mississippi River, new pressures are being put on America’s inland hydro highway, which helps deliver US goods and commodities to the rest of the world and allows trade flows to return. The strain on the river system is only becoming more acute with the impacts of … | Continue reading


@pri.org | 4 years ago

If it was good enough for Jane Austen …

y mother’s reverence for education, a solid grounding in middle-school grammar, and a long career in old-school journalism has chiseled me into one of those people who honors language, and tries to be precise — at least when I write as a professional. If I break the rules, I like … | Continue reading


@niemanstoryboard.org | 4 years ago

Let’s talk about Green Conservation and Cultural Heritage!

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@digitalmeetsculture.net | 4 years ago

Friday Poem

During Donald Trump’s Inauguration I closed my eyes, to conjure from the 1950’s An image of that towering man Paul Robeson Singing his heart and soul across the border Between Washington State and Canada When tides of race and power and wealth Surged all as one to try to drown hi … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 4 years ago

Easy Vegan Carrot Cake Recipe

I love cinnamon in anything, one of my all time favourite cakes is a carrot cake! This one is super moist, mostly due to the large proportion of carrot and the added fruit. I’ve never | Continue reading


@baldhiker.com | 4 years ago

Why time seems to fly as you get older

Most adults seem to agree that the older you get, the quicker time flies by. This feeling might, on its surface, seem like one of life’s more enigmatic qualities. But according to the US neuroscientist David Eagleman, there’s actually a pretty straightforward scientific explanati … | Continue reading


@aeon.co | 4 years ago

Science is deeply imaginative: why is this treated as a secret?

We need a far richer appreciation of the kinds of creative thinking that inspire scientific practice | Continue reading


@aeon.co | 4 years ago

A visit to Yonah Schimmel's Knish Bakery

EV Grieve is the leading news, entertainment and lifestyle blog about the East Village of New York City. | Continue reading


@evgrieve.com | 4 years ago

Migrating away from DevMate: redirecting Sparkle updates

DevMate is the service I use to gather download and install statistics for most of my apps. It also serves the update feeds for all non-Mac App Store apps. E... | Continue reading


@dangercove.com | 4 years ago

Cancer patients turn to crowdfunding to pay for medical care

Patients increasingly resort to crowdfunding websites to pay medical bills, a new UCSF study finds that online donations are sought for lost wages, child care and even occasionally experimental treatments. | Continue reading


@ucsf.edu | 4 years ago

Stand-Ups as a Whip; Agile Software Development as a Commodity

A brief discussion in which developers invent development; ‘agile methodology’ becomes something to sell and buy, and how this trickles… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

Axed adman brings a clown to redundancy meeting

Kiwi adman who brought a clown to a redundancy meeting speaks of his bizarre choice. | Continue reading


@nzherald.co.nz | 4 years ago

We may have a basic form of sign language in common with chimpanzees

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@newscientist.com | 4 years ago

JavaZone 2019, the Lean, Mean OpenJDK?

JavaZone 2019, Room 2 - Claes Redestad - The lean, mean... OpenJDK? | Continue reading


@pscp.tv | 4 years ago

What we’ve learned about satellite Internet after a year in the broadband desert—also known as rural New England. First lesson: Dig out that old DVD player. | Continue reading


@thewirecutter.com | 4 years ago

Students must be taught “how to fail” in life and their studies to succeed

Italian mathematician Alessio Figalli says falling short demonstrates the testing and unknowable nature of research | Continue reading


@timeshighereducation.com | 4 years ago

MyHeritage Acquires Promethease and SNPedia

MyHeritage Acquires Promethease and SNPedia. Company’s first acquisition in the consumer health space boosts its expertise in medical genetics. | Continue reading


@businesswire.com | 4 years ago

Product, Tech and Marketing – Watch pinpointed sessions to understand users

Many of you asked us this question. Session replays help me understand users better, but really, do I have to watch so many sessions. The question of ROI arises:Is the Work Involved > the value delivered‌Problem: Working with all of you we learnt that it is hard to | Continue reading


@browsee.io | 4 years ago

Show HN: Sarafan– AI-based product search tool which recognises items in videos

The story of how we taught Sarafan.AI to recognize products in videos | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

Why Vector Clocks Are Hard (2010)

April 5, 2010A couple of months ago, Bryan wrote about vector clocks on this blog. The title of the post was "Why Vector Clocks are Easy"; anyone who read the post would realize that he meant that they're easy for a client to use when talking to a system that implements them. For … | Continue reading


@riak.com | 4 years ago

SaaS: Proprietary Software Strikes Back

Slide 11 of 23 of Leaping the chasm from proprietary to open: A survivor's guide | Continue reading


@slideshare.net | 4 years ago

Making a Simple CRM: Contact Pipeline

Things can be simple and things can be complex. However, this is not the same as hard or easy. Because hard things are hard, no matter how you put it. Solving that math problem or figuring out how to get a product to market is hard. And on the other | Continue reading


@blog.wobaka.com | 4 years ago

Axios Edge

The stories that drive the business world, by Felix Salmon. | Continue reading


@axios.com | 4 years ago

How to take your talk slides to the next level

Slide decks are an important part of any technical talk. Here are some tips to help you create a clear and impactful deck! | Continue reading


@welcometothejungle.co | 4 years ago

I've spent 6 months learning type design. The result is called 'Marvin Visions'

Marvin Visions is a modern and consistent reinterpretation of Marvin, a typeface originally designed by Michael Chave. It has been revived and expanded by Mathieu Triay for the identity of Visions, a new science fiction magazine. | Continue reading


@readvisions.com | 4 years ago

Why Aren’t There More Conservative Anarchists? On Recovering a Consistent Philosophy of Conservative Anti-Statism

Both Dreher’s and Deneen’s projects impel vital questions: how can the Faith be preserved, and how can we protect ourselves from the progressive strain of liberalism? Perhaps a synthesis of anarchist and conservative postures can yield answers. | Continue reading


@frontporchrepublic.com | 4 years ago

The annual 9th Street Block Party is tomorrow (Saturday — on 9th Street)

EV Grieve is the leading news, entertainment and lifestyle blog about the East Village of New York City. | Continue reading


@evgrieve.com | 4 years ago

Polewa czekoladowa

Dwa niezawodne przepisy na pyszne i proste do przygotowania polewy czekoladowe. W zależności od tego jakie mamy składniki (czy czekoladę czy kakao) taką polewę możemy zrobić. Świetnie pasuje np. do naleśników czy gofrów, ale oczywiście do innych deserów jak ciasta, serniki też mo … | Continue reading


@kwestiasmaku.com | 4 years ago

Google Makes Big Change to Nofollow Links, Introduces 2 New Link Attributes

Google will use rel=nofollow, sponsored, and ugc as hints about which links to consider or exclude for ranking. Here’s what the changes mean for you. | Continue reading


@searchenginejournal.com | 4 years ago

How fast is the universe expanding? The mystery endures

Scientists have known for decades that the universe is expanding, but research in the past few years has shaken up calculations on the speed of growth—raising tricky questions about theories of the cosmos. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago