severak
16.8.2024 17:33:56
The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine - First Draft | Books in Progress
Books in Progress is what we call a “public drafting tool”: Drafts will be made available for comment from the public, allowing for direct collaboration between author and reader.
severak
12.8.2024 16:43:47
Poetry Was an Official Olympic Event for Nearly 40 Years. What Happened?
Pierre de Coubertin hoped the modern Games would encourage the ancient Greek notion of harmony between "muscle and mind"
severak
9.8.2024 22:03:58
What are the Olympics Shooting Competitors Wearing On Their Faces? - Core77
If you happened across the Olympic Air Pistol event for the first time, you might've been puzzled by the competitors' wearables: So those are mechanical irises. Shooting competitors fine-tune them to bring their gunsights into sharp focus. Here's an example of one by manufacturer Gehmann:
severak
29.7.2024 02:26:36
Italy’s “Sun Motorway”: the story of an exceptional infrastructure
May 19 1956 marked the laying of the first stone of the A1 Milan-Naples: check the gallery Domus and discover the story of the Sun Motorway in Italy.
severak
27.7.2024 15:17:45
A Forgotten Athlete, a Nazi Official, and the Origins of Sex Testing at the Olympics
In 1936, the Czech track star Zdeněk Koubek became world-famous after undergoing surgery so that he could live openly as a man.
severak
25.7.2024 09:44:12
Every company should be owned by its employees
Central States Manufacturing as a model for employee-ownership.
severak
22.7.2024 23:48:43
#120 INVCEL | Reply All
How a shy, queer Canadian woman accidentally invented one of the internet’s most toxic male communities.
severak
22.7.2024 18:39:05
compudanzas — permacomputing
permacomputing is a holistic approach to computing and sustainability inspired from permaculture.
severak
22.7.2024 18:38:00
What might degrowth computing look like?
from https://criticaledtech.com/2022/04/08/what-might-degrowth-computing-look-like/
severak
22.7.2024 18:07:12
The computer built to last 50 years
The computer built to last 50 years par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
severak
22.7.2024 13:07:54
Was BASIC that horrible or… better?
from https://retrofun.pl/2023/12/18/was-basic-that-horrible-or-better/
severak
19.7.2024 15:42:40
Deepfakes Can Be Detected by Borrowing a Method From Astronomy
It's all in the eyes.
severak
19.7.2024 15:20:31
PowerKit | Повербанки, ліхтарі та зарядні станції для військових
official site of NGO 'PowerKit volunteer', that was created with the purpose of providing information about the activity of organization.
severak
19.7.2024 15:08:59
Here’s how a bridal photo captured a single person in three poses at once
What is a photo? In this case, it’s a stitched panoramic shot.
severak
18.7.2024 17:31:28
Data Formats: 3D, Audio, Image
Paul Bourke - Data Formats: 3D, Audio, Image
severak
18.7.2024 14:03:58
Personal Data Warehouses: Reclaiming Your Data
I gave a talk yesterday about personal data warehouses for GitHub’s OCTO Speaker Series, focusing on my Datasette and Dogsheep projects. The video of the talk is now available, and …
severak
18.7.2024 14:00:52
Datasette—an ecosystem of tools for working with small data
This is the transcript and video from a talk I gave at PyGotham 2020 about using SQLite, Datasette and Dogsheep to work with small data. I really like the term …
severak
17.7.2024 16:55:36
Important Women in CS Who Aren't Grace Hopper
I’m tired of hearing about Grace Hopper, Margaret Hamilton, and Ada Lovelace. Can’t we think of someone else for once? I went ahead and compiled a bunch of really important women according to some fairly arbitrary rules: There’s a specific thing you can point to and say “That. That’s their contribution.” This leaves out a lot of really qualified people who made lots of general contributions, but I wanted to keep this list fixed on soundbites.
severak
16.7.2024 15:55:57
Rye language
Rye is a work in progress dynamic language with some new ideas
severak
16.7.2024 15:36:17
The science behind an iPhone dumb phone.
A breakdown of recent research supporting tactics for dumbing down your iPhone (as I've discussed previously). Dumbing down your iPhone can lead to a wide range of benefits, including improved attention, reduced stress and depression, improved wellbeing and reduced anxiety.
severak
16.7.2024 15:10:37
The science behind an iPhone dumb phone.
A breakdown of recent research supporting tactics for dumbing down your iPhone (as I've discussed previously). Dumbing down your iPhone can lead to a wide range of benefits, including improved attention, reduced stress and depression, improved wellbeing and reduced anxiety.
severak
16.7.2024 11:34:33
Toolbox languages
A toolbox language is a programming language that’s good at solving problems without requiring third party packages. My default toolbox languages are Python and shell scripts, which you probably already know about. Here are some of my more obscure ones. AutoHotKey Had to show up! Autohotkey is basically “shell scripting for GUIs”. Just a fantastic tool to smooth over using unprogrammable applications. It’s Windows-only but similar things exist for Mac and Linux.
severak
13.7.2024 01:38:57
Horor u Vondráčkové: Pod gaučem našla obřího hada. Museli přijet hasiči | TN.cz
Krásný den na hausbótu se proměnil v noční můru. Helenu Vondráčkovou ve čtvrtek na jejich lodi vyděsil velký had, který se doplazil až pod její sedačku v obýváku. S přáteli netušili, jak ho odtamtud dostat, zasahovat proto museli hasiči. Had prý naštěstí nikoho neuštkl.
severak
11.7.2024 21:41:13
Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany
We’re gonna need a bigger printer.
severak
11.7.2024 19:02:15
A Society That Lost Focus
A Society That Lost Focus par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
severak
9.7.2024 15:51:10
The War on Estonian Forests
Originally published in Estonian World on 11 April 2022. It’s a cold spring morning and I’m watching a tour guide in the Old Town of Tallinn. With her back to a park built on a city block destroyed in World War 2 and facing a set of mediæval buildings not far from the old town square, head in a warm beanie, she’s explaining Estonia to a group of cruise ship tourists.
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