Pharmaceutical giant addresses critical health issue by rethinking its delivery trucks: 'Another milestone'

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


@thecooldown.com | 5 minutes ago

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Meaning

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


@smbc-comics.com | 5 minutes ago

Satya Nadella and the three stages of scientific truth

A textbook case in how good ideas are often initially throttled | Continue reading


@garymarcus.substack.com | 19 minutes ago

Why is joining Bluesky like buying an EV?

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


@memex.naughtons.org | 24 minutes ago

Thoughts of a wine shop, start with the VVV blog. Anything I can find in the phone, pictures. […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 31 minutes ago

Microsoft Signs Book Licencing Deal With HarperCollins For Training New AI Model

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


@goodereader.com | 33 minutes ago

OKKADY releases a great deal of love with debut LP “Hey Darlin'”

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


@lessthan1000followers.com | 42 minutes ago

Cozumel. 🏖️ | Continue reading


@manton.org | 49 minutes ago

The Silent Health Crisis: Why Toxic Stress Is the New Smoking

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


@scitechdaily.com | 52 minutes ago

Sweden’s Government-Issued Pamphlet for Surviving War Has a Long History

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has alarmed neighboring countries and Sweden's bringing back its guide to surviving war. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 hour ago

Why Physicists Changed Their Mind about Dark Matter Particles

Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science | Continue reading


@backreaction.blogspot.com | 1 hour ago

Home gardener shares mesmerizing photos of unusual landscaping design: 'Your garden is what I wish my garden was'

"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


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

"Pecan Pie Brownies" Are the Cozy Boxed Mix Hack I Make Every Thanksgiving

No one will miss the pie. READ MORE... | Continue reading


@thekitchn.com | 1 hour ago

Viral pet toy that entertains your furry friend all day hits lowest price of the season

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


@boingboing.net | 1 hour ago

Are microplastics really destroying our health?

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


@bigthink.com | 1 hour ago

Microsoft is testing a new in-game browser

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


@theverge.com | 1 hour ago

Art-pop band "The Dream Eaters" creates dark and funny earworms that are perfect for these difficult times

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


@boingboing.net | 1 hour ago

Billionaire-proof, day2

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


@scripting.com | 1 hour ago

How To: Use CSS Grid Layout to Make a Simple, Fluid Card Grid

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


@bryanlrobinson.com | 1 hour ago

3 Strategies for Getting Started with CSS Grid

If you're wondering how to start working with CSS Grid, here are three strategies for adopting it into your workflow. | Continue reading


@bryanlrobinson.com | 1 hour ago

CSS Tip: Use rotate() and skew() together to introduce some clean punk rock to your CSS

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


@bryanlrobinson.com | 1 hour ago

The 5 Stages of Grid Love

Looking back on the past year, I've identified the five stages of my love with the CSS Grid Specification. | Continue reading


@bryanlrobinson.com | 1 hour ago

How To: A CSS-Only Mobile Off Canvas Navigation

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


@bryanlrobinson.com | 1 hour ago

How To: Use CSS Grid to Mix and Match Design Patterns

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


@bryanlrobinson.com | 1 hour ago

Use CSS ::before and ::after for simple, spicy image overlays

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


@bryanlrobinson.com | 1 hour ago

Modern CSS: Four Things Every Developer and Designer Should Know About CSS

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


@bryanlrobinson.com | 1 hour ago

Starting a new journey with Code Contemporary

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


@bryanlrobinson.com | 1 hour ago

Dynamic Static Sites with Netlify and iOS Shortcuts

An experiment adding dynamic functionality to this site pushed via iOS shortcuts and Netlify functions | Continue reading


@bryanlrobinson.com | 1 hour ago

Top 3 uses for the ::before and ::after CSS pseudo elements

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


@bryanlrobinson.com | 1 hour ago

Practical CSS Grid - Launching My First Course

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


@bryanlrobinson.com | 1 hour ago

Build Trust on the Web incorporating User Worries with your User Stories

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


@bryanlrobinson.com | 1 hour ago

2019 The Year of Markup-First Development

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


@bryanlrobinson.com | 1 hour ago

Refactoring CSS into a Sass mixin

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


@bryanlrobinson.com | 1 hour ago

The Tech Barrier to Entry

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


@bryanlrobinson.com | 1 hour ago

What Can We Learn from CERN's WorldWideWeb rebuild?

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


@bryanlrobinson.com | 1 hour ago

Let's bring Fan Sites and webrings back!

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


@bryanlrobinson.com | 1 hour ago

Grid vs. Flex: A Tale of a "Simple" Promo Space

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


@bryanlrobinson.com | 1 hour ago

Using Eleventy's (11ty) JavaScript Data Files

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


@bryanlrobinson.com | 1 hour ago

Three JAMstack movements to watch in 2020

This article covers three topics I think will help define the JAMstack in 2020. | Continue reading


@bryanlrobinson.com | 1 hour ago

Type-safe environment variables in Astro 5.0

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


@bryanlrobinson.com | 1 hour ago

New Website, but really is it?

Launched a new version of the website... it's still pretty much the same, but way less complicated | Continue reading


@bryanlrobinson.com | 1 hour ago

Netlify Durable Cache: Caching for a third-party world

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


@bryanlrobinson.com | 1 hour ago

WHOOP 4.0 Strap Review: 2024 Update

WHOOP 4 Review : Don't want to waste your money? Every PRO and CON - plus the biggest discount available anywhere today The post WHOOP 4.0 Strap Review: 2024 Update appeared first on the5krunner • tri bike run. The full post can be read now at the5krunner • tri bike run. | Continue reading


@the5krunner.com | 1 hour ago

This Lenovo Chromebook Is Only $149 For Black Friday, And it Can Replace Your $1,000 Old Laptop

If you're using your laptop mainly for browsing the internet, this is the best deal you can get. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 hour ago

International Space Station evades space junk

LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Earlier this week, Progress 89, an uncrewed Russian supply ship docked at the International Space Station, used a 5-minute and 31-second burn to move the ISS to a higher orbit. — Read the rest The post International Spac … | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 1 hour ago

The Great AMD Ryzen 7 5700X Processor Is 50% Off, Now at an All-Time Low Price

It is rated 4.8 out of 5 based on over 7,000 reviews on Amazon. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 hour ago

After A Long Wait, Zimbabwe’s Utility-Scale Solar PV Sector Is Starting To Grow

Zimbabwe has an installed electricity generation capacity of close to 3,000 MW, but there is a huge problem. The Zimbabwe Power Company’s (ZPC) main thermal plants are very old and keep breaking down. There were also three small coal power plants in Harare, Munyati, and Bulawayo … | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 1 hour ago

For Black Friday, Babbel Is The Smartest Purchase You Can Make (78% Off Lifetime)

This lifetime subscription to Babbel is a great way to invest in yourself. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 hour ago