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Things to Do Before Asking “Is This Accessible?” — Adrian Roselli

adrianroselli.com/2024/08/things-to-do-before-asking-is-this-accessible.html

Action Produces Information - Commoncog

commoncog.com/action-produces-information/

The Games People Play With Cash Flow - Commoncog

commoncog.com/cash-flow-games/

Zed - The editor for what's next

zed.dev/
Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

Interviewing the Interviewer: Questions to Uncover a Company’s True Culture

praachi.work/blog/questions-to-ask-in-a-job-interview
Uncover the true culture of a tech company by asking the right questions during your interview. Learn how to assess company values, employee support, and growth opportunities to ensure the perfect fit.

An underrated software engineering interview question – Jake Zimmerman

blog.jez.io/bugsquash/
I love bug squash interviews.

The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud - Bert Hubert's writings

berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-gigantic-unregulated-power-plants-in-the-cloud/
Recently a Dutch hacker was able to take control of 4 million solar panel installations (FTM (Dutch), Euractiv, Victor Gevers). And this wasn’t the first time something like this has happened either (PV Magazine). As usual, huge thanks are due to the many beta readers and experts who helped improve this article with their feedback, valuable insights and knowledge! This post was machine translated (not too well) from the original Dutch version, which was also more focused on The Nethe...

“The Door Problem” – Liz England

lizengland.com/blog/2014/04/the-door-problem/

Toasts are Bad UX – Max Schmitt

maxschmitt.me/posts/toasts-bad-ux

qsv.dathere.com - CSV data wrangling toolkit

qsv.dathere.com/
qsv is a data-wrangling toolkit built with Rust to slice, dice, and analyze your data in seconds from the command line. Designed for very large data sets.

jless - A Command-Line JSON Viewer

jless.io/

We now know how kestrels stay perfectly still while hovering | New Scientist

newscientist.com/article/2443209-we-now-know-how-kestrels-stay-perfectly-still-while-hovering/

Rive Editor

rive.app/editor
Want a Lottie alternative that is faster, smaller, consumes less memory, and is fully interactive?

29,000 Feet Up Mount Everest with DJI Mavic 3 Pro

youtube.com/watch
Experience the success of capturing the full Mount Everest climbing route with the DJI Mavic 3 Pro 🗻Equipped with a 4/3 CMOS Hasselblad camera, tri-camera s...

A/B testing mistakes I learned the hard way

newsletter.posthog.com/p/ab-testing-mistakes-i-learned-the

Can astrologers use astrological charts to understand people's character and lives? Our new study put astrologers to the test

clearerthinking.org/post/can-astrologers-use-astrological-charts-to-understand-people-s-character-and-lives-our-new-study-pu

oTranscribe

otranscribe.com/
A free HTML5 app to take the pain out of transcribing interviews. Useful for journalists, academics and anyone else transcribing audio. And it's open source, too.

How to avoid losing items? Holding pens. | Alex W.'s Blog

blog.alexwendland.com/2024-07-07-holding-pens/

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mushroomcoloratlas.com/
In this dynamic Mushroom Color Atlas, explore the colorful universe of fungi through the spectrum of colors from dyeing with mushrooms.

Simply | The best apps to set your creativity free

hellosimply.com/
Feel the joy of playing piano and guitar, or discovering your singing voice, with Simply. The best apps for learning musical instruments.