Map that breaks down religions within different areas of the UK
Essentially a political map of the UK, that also shows the main religious colour of each area. I'm actually kind of surprised by some of the results.
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Reddit App not refreshing on iPhone : r/ProtonVPN
Recently I had a need to finally use a VPN (no, not for that reason -- it was the opposite; I wasn't in the UK and needed to appear to be) and so gave Proton a spin. When using it I noticed that while the Reddit app worked, sometimes, it wouldn't update stories for hours.
Seems this isn't uncommon.
Reading QR codes without a computer!
Interesting page that details how a QR code works and how, if you needed to, you could read it manually.
Electronic Soundmaker & Computer Music Issues (All)
Back in my teens I was really into this magazine. For some reason it popped into my head the other day and I went looking online to see if there was any mention of it. This is what I found.
Lisp Logical Pathnames
A short and useful introduction to logical pathnames in Common Lisp.
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Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (with Carl Sagan)
The absolute classic from my childhood.
Dozens of pro-Indy accounts go dark after Israeli strikes
Sure correlation is not causation but sometimes it's hard not to think it is.
Project ECCO by Elliot Davis
RPGs aren't quite my thing, especially not "physical" ones; but this looks and sounds interesting.
JK Rowling called The National 'anti-woman' – here's my response
The National's response to JKR's nonsense.
“Don’t Mock What You Don’t Own” in 5 Minutes
An interesting article on what should and shouldn't be mocked when writing tests.
The Line of Death
The most important part of the web browser UI is...
If you are useful, it doesn’t mean you are valued
"As you progress in your career, understanding the difference between being useful and being valued is very important. At first glance, they might look similar because the signals you get are more or less the same: a promotion, a higher than expected bonus, a special stock award. This is why it’s important to dig deeper and try to detect subtler signals."
Hurkle
Rules for a simple game that I think might make for a fun terminal-based game.
How I take work notes as a developer
I'm a big fan of keeping notes as I work, as I develop software. I like to /try/ and take a lab notebook approach where possible. But, to this day, I've not really settled on the "one right approach".
Here's someone else's approach...
Common Lisp Strong Typing Example
As the title says: examples of strong typing in Common Lisp.
AI Hallucination Cases Database
AI will enslave us all eventually...
What is TSDoc? | TSDoc
A proposed standard for "docstrings" for TypeScript. Well, not docstrings in the Lisp/Python sense, but comments that can be used to document an API in place and allow for the generation of documentation from them.
Does employee happiness create value for firm performance?
Obviously the causation can’t be explained here, but there is unsurprisingly a correlation between employee happiness and company performance.
The question then becomes: does a company with happy employees perform better, or do better-performing companies treat their workers better?
A Scheme Primer
Nice little introduction to Scheme.
David Lord :python: (@davidism@mas.to)
Some dodgy GitHub behaviour from a RedHat employee.
Braindrop - flotte Terminal-Abfrage für den Bookmarkdienst Raindrop.io
An article discussing Braindrop and Raindrop.
artempyanykh/marksman: Write Markdown with code assist and intelligence in the comfort of your favourite editor.
An LSP server for Markdown.
quismi
Tool for making background wallpapers.
‘It’s better for them than being in a cage!’ Why are cat cafes suddenly so controversial?
News article about how some folk (and I do wonder how few folk really) seem to think cat cafes are a bad thing.
Ghostty Config
Very impressive and possibly very useful Ghostty configuration generator application.
How Broken OTPs and Open Endpoints Turned a Dating App Into a Stalker’s Playground
A pretty amazing and worrying story of one person's exploration of a data app's API.
Google TypeScript Style Guide
TypeScript style guide based on what's used inside Google. Looks worthwhile and might make a good reference for ideas.
Strudel REPL
A pretty amazing live-coding tool for creating music.
Asyncio Demystified: Rebuilding it From Scratch One Yield at a Time
How to do async in Python the hard way, as a way to learn how it works so you undersatnd things better when you do it the easy way.
Certifying a document
How to get a copy of a document certified in the UK.