Frankenstein – Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds

The original 1818 text of Mary Shelley's classic novel, with annotations and essays highlighting its scientific, ethical, and cautionary aspects. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has endured in the popular imagination for two hundred years. Begun as a ghost story by an … | Continue reading


@mitpress.mit.edu | 5 years ago

Creating an animated SVG Neon light effect

Full Tutorial - From Illustrator to Sketch to SVG | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Fresh Linux Applications On Demand

Traditionally Linux users have relied on central distribution-maintained repositories to get new software. With six-month or longer spans between releases, this meant many users just put up with old versions of applications &… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 5 years ago

Don't feed the troll. Trolls encourage us to believe they want to be shown the truth, but in fact they don't. They just want to troll you. They want your attention, your energy, and they want you to draw more people to them. | Continue reading


@this.how | 5 years ago

Paid time off and the nature of science

Flexible work arrangements aren’t just a nice HR practice. They expose our brains to messy real-world patterns, which helps us find… | Continue reading


@towardsdatascience.com | 5 years ago

Data science career advice to my younger self

I don’t know if any of these ideas would have benefitted a younger me. I think they would have. | Continue reading


@towardsdatascience.com | 5 years ago

Expanding Our High-Performance Leadership with Focused 7nm Development

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@community.amd.com | 5 years ago

Waymo’s Big Ambitions Slowed by Tech Trouble

CHANDLER, Ariz.—Alphabet’s Waymo unit is a worldwide leader in autonomous vehicle development for suburban environments. It has said it would launch a driverless robo-taxi service to suburban Phoenix residents this year. Yet its self-driving minivan prototypes have trouble crossi … | Continue reading


@theinformation.com | 5 years ago

Smart Lights, Dark Purposes: Connected Lights Can Exfiltrate Your Data

According to Anindya Maiti and Murtuza Jadliwala, researchers from University of Texas at San Antonio, certain connected lights create a new attack surface | Continue reading


@sensorstechforum.com | 5 years ago

Slate Joining Group to Learn How Political Facebook Ads Are Targeting You, Help

Slate’s Use of Your Data | Continue reading


@slate.com | 5 years ago

Solar Power: Lots of Jobs per KWH Is Bad, Not Good

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@econlib.org | 5 years ago

The Story of the American Inventor Denied a Patent Because He Was a Slave

The world of invention is famous for its patent disputes. But what happens when your dispute wasn’t with another inventor but whether the Patent Office saw you as a person at all? In 1864, a black man named Benjamin T. Montgomery tried to patent his new propeller for steamboats. … | Continue reading


@paleofuture.gizmodo.com | 5 years ago

Spectrum of possibilities: a GUI color guide

Color is the master key to clear and compelling design communication, but UI designers must learn to wield its power wisely. The Go-To UI Color Guide simplifies core color theory concepts and shows designers how to use color with lightning-quick precision. | Continue reading


@toptal.com | 5 years ago

GlobalFoundries Halts 7-Nanometer Chip Development

After installing extreme-ultraviolet lithography, foundry finds it doesn’t have enough customers for it | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 5 years ago

Staying sane as a solo developer

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@volkermauel.de | 5 years ago

It's even worse than it appears. | Continue reading


@scripting.com | 5 years ago

A social wealth fund for America

A plan for a dividend-paying social wealth fund in the United States. | Continue reading


@peoplespolicyproject.org | 5 years ago

A Hacker's Guide to Git

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@wildlyinaccurate.com | 5 years ago

Uber’s Bundles

Uber had a good strategy, but its crisis meant Lyft had new life and the strategy was no longer workable. Now the company is pursuing something new, even though it is more complicated. | Continue reading


@stratechery.com | 5 years ago

The Darker Side of Open Source

A one-day event for Open Source sustainers | Continue reading


@sustainoss.org | 5 years ago

Design, remix, and share your neighborhood street

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@streetmix.net | 5 years ago

Salmon, a Python Mail Server

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@salmon-mail.readthedocs.io | 5 years ago

Figwheel 0.1.8

Figwheel Main provides tooling for developing ClojureScript applications | Continue reading


@figwheel.org | 5 years ago

Drought in Central Europe Reveals Cautionary 'Hunger Stones' in Czech River

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@choice.npr.org | 5 years ago

The best designed maps from the past two years

Published by the North American Cartographic Information Society, the upcoming 2018 Atlas of Design showcases 32 of the best maps | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 5 years ago

WideNES – Peeking Past the Edge of NES Games

If I write something interesting, it will probably be published over here! | Continue reading


@prilik.com | 5 years ago

MTN in partnership with Jay Z's music platform, TIDAL

MTN in Uganda 🇺🇬 to start offering TIDAL music streaming subscription membership as part of its mobile data bundles, this will roll out to other operations across Afrika. | Continue reading


@iafrikan.com | 5 years ago

Let’s be Transparent

Two years ago, we released the Firefox Hardware Report to share with the public the state of desktop hardware. Whether you’re a web developer deciding what hardware settings to test ... | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 5 years ago

Uppy 0.27: First Swing at React Native Support

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@uppy.io | 5 years ago

Product Vision, Trust, and Creativity

Every day on a project, decision after decision is being made to push the project team closer to the delivery of the final product. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Toyota invests $500M in Uber

The companies will work together to bring self-driving cars to the world. | Continue reading


@money.cnn.com | 5 years ago

Puzzling Mac download behavior

It's even worse than it appears. | Continue reading


@scripting.com | 5 years ago

To See How Levees Increase Flooding, We Built Our Own

We ran water through a room-sized river model to show how levees can make flooding worse. Try it yourself. | Continue reading


@projects.propublica.org | 5 years ago

Travel Back in Time with Stephen Hackett’s Aqua Screenshot Library

Ever wonder how much the Mac’s user interface has changed over time? Thanks to Stephen Hackett’s extensive collection of screenshots in each of the 15 versions of the Mac operating system, we can all trace the transition from Pin Stripes to Brushed Metal and relive the skeuomorph … | Continue reading


@tidbits.com | 5 years ago

Building Trending Activity Feeds Using GraphQL and Neo4j

Leveraging the Neo4j Community Graph For Social Discovery | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

GitHub extensions to boost your productivity

GitHub extensions provide additional functionality and allow us to boost our productivity | Continue reading


@dev.to | 5 years ago

Rm -rf remains

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@lambdaops.com | 5 years ago

On the Street…Summer Style, Copenhagen

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@thesartorialist.com | 5 years ago

How Different Cultures Understand Time (2014)

Time may seem universal, but different cultures interpret it very differently. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 5 years ago

T-Mobile Database Breach Exposes 2M Customers' Data

T-Mobile has suffered a breach that may have exposed personal data for 2.3 million of its 77 million customers, and one security researcher says the hacker appears | Continue reading


@databreachtoday.com | 5 years ago

Pittsburgh becomes largest US city without a daily print newspaper

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@thehill.com | 5 years ago

Damson Cake with Caramelised Almond Topping (Tosca cake)

Food blogger Izy Hossack shows you how to make a delicious damson cake with a caramelised almond topping known as 'Tosca cake' in Sweden. | Continue reading


@topwithcinnamon.com | 5 years ago

Some People Showed a Misunderstanding of Clothing at the IHeartRadio Awards

None of these are very good. | Continue reading


@gofugyourself.com | 5 years ago

Amazon RDS on VMware – Managed Databases in VMware and Hybrid Environments

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@aws.amazon.com | 5 years ago

GDPR: Basics, Principles and Tips for Compliance

You have probably heard about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a new European privacy law that everyone is concerned about. We already have an introductory article on this topic. So this time we are going more in detail and will focus on both–general aspects that ar … | Continue reading


@gbksoft.com | 5 years ago

Want to auto-generate Kotlin Spring Boot code? You can do it with just 1 command

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@mobile.twitter.com | 5 years ago

Two Weeks of Books

I was away from the house for two weeks, and in that time here are the books that arrived in my absence. There's several dozen books here, some of them even ones I've written: two of the boxes here are author copies. But a significant number are from other authors. I'll be postin … | Continue reading


@whatever.scalzi.com | 5 years ago

The Politics of Homeownership

Homeowners are more active in national and local politics than non-owners. This disproportionate involvement can potentially limit the economy and further divide our politics. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago