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They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines—and Started a Cold War | WIRED
wired.com/story/they-hacked-mcdonalds-ice-cream-makers-started-cold-war/Secret codes. Legal threats. Betrayal. How one couple built a device to fix McDonald’s notoriously broken soft-serve machines—and how the fast-food giant froze them out.
How Fit Can You Get From Just Walking? | GQ
gq.com/story/get-fit-from-just-walkingWalking is good for you, obviously. But can it whip you into shape?
Opting your Website out of Google's FLoC Network - Paramdeo Singh
paramdeo.com//blog/opting-your-website-out-of-googles-floc-networkA lightweight commenting system using GitHub issues.
Internet Search Tips · Gwern.net
gwern.net/SearchFinally, you can always try to contact the author. This only occasionally works for the papers I have the hardest time with, since they tend to be old ones where the author is dead or unreachable—any author publishing a paper since 1990 will usually have been digitized somewhere—but it’s easy to try.
Basic Music Theory in ~200 Lines of Python | Manohar Vanga
mvanga.com/blog/basic-music-theory-in-200-lines-of-pythonA basic introduction to Western music theory using the Python programming to derive scales, chords, and modes in every key.
The Ultimate Guide to Copywriting
neilpatel.com/blog/ultimate-guide-to-copywriting/Killer copy is the backbone of marketing. In this post you'll learn some copywriting tips and find out how to create copy that converts visitors into customers.
Gnome shortage: Lockdown and Suez canal blockage blamed - BBC News
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-56748561A garden centre "boom" coupled with supply chain delays are making the ornaments hard to come by. + https://www.lemonde.fr/big-browser/article/2021/04/17/penurie-de-nains-de-jardin-au-royaume-uni-apres-les-confinements-successifs_6077134_4832693.html
Webamp · Winamp 2 in your browser
webamp.org/Winamp 2.9 reimplemented in HTML5 and JavaScript
Is content moderation a dead end? — Benedict Evans
ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2021/4/13/is-content-moderation-a-dead-endFacebook struggles with harmful content just as Microsoft struggled with malware 20 years ago. Content moderation is the new virus scanning. But virus scanning wasn’t the answer - instead we changed the whole model, moving to mobile and the cloud, and leaving Microsoft behind. So do we change the social model as well, or is this Gin Lane?
Remote to who? A working letter
tinyletter.com/aworkinglibrary/letters/remote-to-who-a-working-letterIt was probably inevitable that sitting through a whole lot of job interviews and considering several offers would mean I would end up spending a disproportionate amount of time these past months thinking about what work means to me. This is a topic I am predisposed to (witness the title of this newsletter), and the activity of applying for jobs pretty much made everything else unthinkable. What I’m sharing today is some very rough thoughts about one corner of the way we talk about w...
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uncut.wtf/Open source typeface catalogue, focusing on somewhat contemporary type