warner/magic-wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely
Handy tool for transferring stuff from one machine to another
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Low Culture 4: Death Stranding
Rather good essay about playing Death Stranding.
Time to rethink mandatory password changes | Federal Trade Commission
Why forcing users to change their password every N weeks is generally a terrible idea.
A set of free MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons for UI development.
Handy set of svg-based icons, ideal for websites and web-based apps.
Getting Started With Org Mode - YouTube
Very good gentle introduction to Org-mode.
Free online bioinformatics course
Many biomedical research graduate programs have been compelled to “go online” with little or no notice due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since many professors are distinctly uncomfortable in front of a camera, students may not get exposure to some of the topics that they might have expected. Since my move to South Africa in 2015, I have tried to deposit video on YouTube (and PDFs of the slides to Google Drive) every time I have delivered a lecture for students. Since I teach a fairly broad range of coursework, the catalog of topics may be useful for students working from home or for departments that are trying to ensure their students get the training they need. This page indexes the series of lectures I have made available. I hope you enjoy watching them as much as I have enjoyed creating them!
Programming Algorithms
Book that describes various programming algorithms, all based around Lisp.
Body Fat Calculator
Handy body fat calculator
15 Git tips to improve your workflow
Small number of handy git hints from GitLab.
COVID-19 3D Visualisation
3d visualisation of the spread of COVID-19 around the globe.
7 Years of Abuse and I Had No Idea I Was in an Abusive Relationship | Psychreg
The tweet that suggested hashtags, before they wete called hashtags
From what I've been able to see on the Net, this is the tweet that first suggested using a hash and a symbolic name to group together tweets by subject.
I can remember, back in the day, using this and an external website to then search particular tags on Twitter. Sadly I forget the name of the website.
Coronavirus Live Map UK
"Live" map of confirmed cases of CoVID-19 in the UK.
Bill Drummand and Zodiac Mindwarp try to save the world
A mad wonderful thread on twitter
A Medical Worker Describes Terrifying Lung Failure From COVID-19 — Even in His Young Patients
Article that describes the more extreme symptoms of contracting CoVID-19. It also highlights that it can and will affect those who are younger.
The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2 | Nature Medicine
Some informed speculation as to the origin of SARS-CoV-2.
This is how science happens
An article exploring, in some part, the idea that science works as well as it does because failure is a feature and is (or should be) embraced.
I wish software development would do this more too.
Exploring Emacs chart Library
Despite using it since the mid 1990s, I'd never noticed that Emacs had acquired a pretty good charting library. This blog post is a pretty good introduction to it.
Does alcohol kill coronavirus? The biggest myths, busted | WIRED UK
Some early myth-busting regarding SARS-CoV-2. As of the time of writing this description, it all looks so terribly out of date. Quite a bit of the advice has changed. :-/
Glad to Be Gay - Tom Robinson Band — People Powered Playlists by musicto
Wonderful history of the evolution of a great protest song. Easily one of my absolute favourite protest songs.
Yes, it is worse than the flu: busting the coronavirus myths | World news | The Guardian
Early(ish) article busting some of the myths about SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19.
List of 45 facts about male victims of domestic abuse
Fairly comprehensive list of facts about male victims of domestic abuse.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 isolate Wuhan-Hu-1, co - Nucleotide - NCBI
Genbank data for SARS-CoV-2.
Are We Right to Assume that Women Perpetrate Domestic Violence in Self-Defence? | Psychreg
Article discussing the issue of how, as a society, we often see domestic violence carried out by women as a self-defence thing. It's a trope that is very unhelpful to male victims of domestic abuse.
Expert analysis: Why the Caroline Flack case placed CPS in a difficult position - Mark Brooks
A sober take on a terrible situation. The case itself had serious implications for how victims of abuse are believed, even if they don't wish to report the abuse (which often can be the case because an abuser can convince the victim that the abuse isn't real, or there's a reasonable cause).
Think Julia: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
Free online book about getting to know Julia.
On the performance and design of BioSequences compared to the Seq language | BioJulia
Interesting article that compares Seq to Julia, and in doing so results in speed improvements in a bioinformatics library for Julia.
Agile as trauma
Great article that nicely puts into words many of the things I find problematic about agile.
UoE Cafés nutritional information
Portal that provides access to the nutritional information of all meals at the UoE cafes.
Excalidraw
Simple online drawing tool that generates diagrams that appear to be hand-drawn.