Even though it’s a bit cold and muddy outside, today, while we’re still living in Kassel, we took the opportunity to take another look at the city from above. This time from the Bismarck Tower. | Continue reading
Peer review is a central feature of academic work. It's the process through which research ends up published in an academic journal: independent experts scrutinize the work of another researcher in order to recommend if it should be accepted by a publisher and if and how it shoul … | Continue reading
This new fuel will be used in more than 500 DHL deliveries to 10 countries on an annual basis. Pharmaceutical giant addresses critical health issue by rethinking its delivery trucks: 'Another milestone' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
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1. More on Shostakovich’s Fifth (New Yorker). 2. On French music. 3. RFK Jr. may cut Medicare payments to doctors for surgeries. 4. Jason Furman on AI regulation (WSJ). 5. John Gray reviews Jordan Peterson. 6. All of Abbey Road, for piano. 7. Animal welfare advocates nominated to … | Continue reading
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Meaning is for 18 year olds. I'm ready for peace. Today's News: | Continue reading
A textbook case in how good ideas are often initially throttled | Continue reading
Look, don’t get me wrong: Bluesky is interesting and a great alternative to Twitter/X. It’s a pleasure to use and it’s not toxic. And Elon Musk is nowhere to be seen. All big pluses. But it’s still social media. I’ve … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Thoughts of a wine shop, start with the VVV blog. Anything I can find in the phone, pictures. […] | Continue reading
Microsoft has entered into an agreement with HarperCollins that will give the software giant access to content from the publisher to train its AI models. As per the terms of the agreement, the Redmond-based company will only have access to non-fiction titles. HarperCollins furthe … | Continue reading
The term "social distancing" spread out across the public vocabulary in recent years as people around the world changed habits to combat the COVID pandemic. New research led by UT Professor Alex Bentley, however, reveals the practice of organized elbow room could date back approx … | Continue reading
Love, quite possibly the largest emotion known to us, is so vast that it's very difficult to put it all into music. OKKADY tackle a smaller part of the whole thing dedicated to partnership, a romantic relationship between two lovers. | Continue reading
Microsoft is now testing WebAuthn API updates that add support for support for using third-party passkey providers for Windows 11 passwordless authentication. [...] | Continue reading
Chronic stress accelerates aging and contributes to severe health issues, but effective management through lifestyle changes can mitigate these effects. The recognition and treatment of stress, especially through targeted programs, show promising results in improving overall heal … | Continue reading
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has alarmed neighboring countries and Sweden's bringing back its guide to surviving war. | Continue reading
A team of marine biologists from Norway, the U.S. and Denmark has conducted the first hearing test of a live baleen whale. For their study published in the journal Science, the group corralled a pair of wild minke whales and recorded their brain waves. | Continue reading
"So hardy, no maintenance, bloom all summer long." Home gardener shares mesmerizing photos of unusual landscaping design: 'Your garden is what I wish my garden was' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
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TL;DR: Your cat or dog will love the self-rolling Cheerble ball, now $19.97 with this early Black Friday sale. Pets get bored quickly, but this interactive pet toy keeps things fresh and exciting with its unpredictable movements and engaging play modes. — Read the rest The post V … | Continue reading
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In 2022, scientists found microplastics — pieces of plastic less than five millimeters long — in human blood. Since then, they’ve been discovered throughout the human body, including in our lungs, kidneys, livers, hearts, and brains. So, why do we have all this plastic in us, wha … | Continue reading
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! My current musical obsession is New York-based art project/band called "The Dream Eaters," who describe themselves as "The Carpenters meet Slayer." With an uncanny ability to rock both goth and preppy clothes and makeup … | Continue reading
Microsoft’s new Game Assist browser overlay can automatically surface tips and tricks for you. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft has announced that Microsoft Edge Game Assist, a new Edge-powered in-game browser overlay, is available for beta testing in Windows 11. The “game-aware” ove … | Continue reading
Given that the conversation has rightly turned to billionaire-proofness of Bluesky, if they allow devs to build on Bluesky with RSS in and out, that's enough to alleviate the concern about it being billionaire-proof. They already support outbound RSS. Now just let us get into the … | Continue reading
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to take one of the most common tropes of web design -- the card grid -- and make it fluid. | Continue reading
If you're wondering how to start working with CSS Grid, here are three strategies for adopting it into your workflow. | Continue reading
Looking back on the past year, I've identified the five stages of my love with the CSS Grid Specification. | Continue reading
I'm still convinced that taking inspiration from punk rock design of the 70s and 80s is going to be a trend. If you want to start small, introduce some angles to your design. This is a simple trick to angle a stripe of content without adding awkward white space. | Continue reading
Mobile navigation and the "hamburger nav" pattern aren't going away. In this tutorial, I'll walk you through creating a mobile off-canvas navigation with only CSS and HTML. | Continue reading
Contrary to popular belief, CSS is an absolute delight. Many developers I talk to think the phrase "Modern CSS" is an oxymoron. If you haven’t been watching the growth and maturity of CSS in the past 5 years, you’re doing yourself a disservice. | Continue reading
Use :after elements to create the simplest HTML possible to render useful and fun overlays on top of background images. Then extend them with blend-modes! | Continue reading
In a previous tutorial, I described how to create a simple fluid card grid with CSS Grid. In this tutorial, we'll take it a step farther and create promotional spaces that morph in interesting ways. | Continue reading
An experiment adding dynamic functionality to this site pushed via iOS shortcuts and Netlify functions | Continue reading
It’s no secret that I'm a fan of ::before and ::after pseudo-elements. I use them to great effect for creating darkened overlays in this previous post. They have so many uses beyond that, though. Here are my top 3 uses for them in my every-day development process. | Continue reading
I'm beginning my new journey as an independent creator. I've left the comfortable confines of agency life to see what I can do creating resources for designers and developers. I'll be writing, recording, speaking and consulting. Much of this will be under the headi … | Continue reading
It struck me recently as I was writing a new Sass mixin that there may be designers and developers out there that haven't translated vanilla CSS into a Sass function. In this article, I want to show how to take often-used CSS and convert it into a DRY (Don't Repeat Your … | Continue reading
Late last year, I took the plunge and began to work full time on my passion - education. That has led to today. Today, I officially launched my first online course - Practical CSS Grid! | Continue reading
The web is suffering from a crisis of trust. Every week there’s a new story posted about a data breach or untrustworthy practices (I’m looking at you, Facebook). How can we fix that? When we create user stories for new features, shouldn’t we also create user worries about them? | Continue reading
The state of the web in 2018 has been heavy into the world of JavaScript. We've made amazing advancements in the way our sites work. Every site has the ability to feel like an application. Without HTML, though, our fancy future may have a dystopian layer right beneath the su … | Continue reading
I'm grateful for my unique journey to find my professional niche. It's taken a lot of twists and turns. Is my journey replicable in this era of developer tooling and convenience? | Continue reading
Have you ever wanted to go back in time and see what it was like to browse the web using Sir Tim Berners-Lee's first web browser? I have. Apparently so did the team at CERN. For the 30th anniversary of the world's first web browser, The European Organization for Nuclear … | Continue reading
In the days before the web was mainstream, it was a place of creation. First for education, then for every random idea that any creator had! As the web transitioned from a network of educational institutions to the consumer force it is today, the early adopters were technologists … | Continue reading
I love the new layout modes in CSS. Grid and Flexbox are both amazing features. They each have their place. What if I told you that if you used the "wrong" one, you could double your CSS and HTML? Let's take a look at what appears to be a simple promo grid. | Continue reading
I enjoy building workflows for pure static sites. I enjoy ingesting data into my build process instead of loading my client-side with fetches. In this example, we'll use Eleventy's ability to use a JavaScript file, to execute code to fetch data on site build, negating t … | Continue reading
This article covers three topics I think will help define the JAMstack in 2020. | Continue reading
In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at setting up Netlify’s Durable Cache on a third-party API with (artificially) slow returns. We’ll use a proxied dev.to API, throttle it a bit, and see the effects of durable caching on the responses. We’ll also build a function to clear specif … | Continue reading
Astro’s 5.0 beta has released a stable version of its astro:env module. This allows for developers to configure a schema for their environment variables and then take advantage of new feature this opens. | Continue reading