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Hacking your keyboard with karabiner · Kaushik Gopal's Site

kau.sh/blog/hacking-your-keyboard/
Curated thoughts on various topics like programming, technology, music, life and personal stuff from Kaushik Gopal. Friends call me kaush.

MrScraper — A hassle-free web scraper to extract without getting blocked

mrscraper.com/
The easiest web scraper with proxy rotation, infinite pagination, real browsers using JavaScript, and a built in scheduler.

Bank payments: slow and shallow experiences

builtformars.com/case-studies/ux-banking-chapter-9
In this chapter on the UX of Banking, we'll cover the experiences of domestic payments. You'll see that they're largely slow and shallow.

Poline — esoteric color palette generator

meodai.github.io/poline/
poline is lightweight, dependency free and fast JavaScript function written in TypeScript. It draws lines between anchors over polar coordinates to generate pleasing color palettes.

The Market for Lemons - Infrequently Noted

infrequently.org/2023/02/the-market-for-lemons/
New web services are being built to a self-defeatingly low UX and performance standard, and existing experiences are now pervasively re-developed on unspeakably slow, JS-taxed stacks. At a business level, this is a disaster, raising the question: why are new teams buying into stacks that have failed so often before?

Etiquette Rules for Tipping, Parenting, Friends, and Work

thecut.com/article/tipping-rules-etiquette-rules.html
Expert advice on how to text, tip, ghost, host, hook up, parent, friend, and survive online and at work. Got questions? We have answers.

Insulation: first the body, then the home - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE

lowtechmagazine.com/2011/02/body-insulation-thermal-underwear.html
You could fill a library with reports and books describing the importance of energy-efficient heating systems and home insulation. However, not a word has been said or written about the energy savings potential of clothing, even though there has been a lot of progress in this area too. Modern thermal underclothing offers the possibility to turn the thermostat much lower without sacrificing comfort or sex appeal. The potential energy savings are huge; the costs are almost nil. This ar...

How Airports Catch Illicit Radioactive Cargo

wired.co.uk/article/heathrow-radioactive-cargo-screening
Hidden screening devices are used to track the movement of dangerous materials—and recently caught a shipment of uranium at London’s Heathrow Airport.

What time is it on the Moon?

nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00185-z
Satellite navigation systems for lunar settlements will require local atomic clocks. Scientists are working out what time they will keep.

Home | endoflife.date

endoflife.date/
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WiFi Routers Used to Produce 3D Images of Humans

vpnoverview.com/news/wifi-routers-used-to-produce-3d-images-of-humans/
Carnegie Mellon researchers may have come up with a breakthrough technique to detect and map humans in space via WiFi transmitters.

The Radical Design of PizzaExpress

vittles.substack.com/p/the-radical-design-of-pizzaexpress
How one chain changed the way we eat. Words by Digby Warde-Aldam; Illustration by Sinjin Li

‘That Girl is Going to Get Herself Killed’

longreads.com/2022/11/15/death-in-national-parks/
Krista Diamond | Longreads | November 2022 | 16 minutes (4,342 words) In 2012, I was working at a hotel in Glacier National Park when a man I’d just met invited me for a day of tubing and drinking beer on the river. L