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.
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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.
Browse good first issues to start contributing to open source - The GitHub Blog
Github are doing more to make it easier to find good issues to get you into contributing to projects. I like this idea and should make a point of looking at the possible contributions of projects I make use of a lot.
A Makefile for Emacs Packages « null program
Good blog post that talks about effective use of Makefiles when building and managing Emacs Lisp code.
GNU Guile v3.0.0
Guile v3.0.0 has been released.
Emacs Lisp Animations
Potentially useful and fun introduction to programming in Emacs Lisp, that actually gives results people might enjoy.
Tips for communicating with someone with BPD
This seems like an excellent overview on how to navigate communicating with someone with BPD when their disorder is in control.
Epic twitter thread about the genetics of cat coats
Different methods of arranging circles
Fascinating tweet (and thread) that shows all the different ways you can arrange a collection of circles without them overlapping.
Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors
A critical review of a book about sleep that I've seen lots of people uncritically rave about.
Things to know about mental health.
Twitter thread that invited people who have mental ill health, or disorders, to explain things that neurotypical types might not know, understand, or appreciate.
Bot Sentinel Dashboard ‹ Bot Sentinel
Tool for helping work out if a twitter account is a bot or not.
The Fundamental Problem in Python 3 | The Changelog
The Incredible Disaster of Python 3 | The Changelog
Surviving Domestic Abuse
Some excellent advice on moving from being a victim, to being a survivor, of domestic abuse.
Happy Hues - Curated colors in context.
Handy website that gives some great examples of colour palettes for web design (and other kinds of design too, I guess).
licensing - What can I assume if a publicly published project has no license? - Open Source Stack Exchange
Useful thread about what you should take away from a repository that's available on a forge (especially GitHub) and which has no obvious licence.
A crash course in machine learning
Google's crash course in machine learning.
Going further with Scottish Gaelic
Some good advice on progressing with learning Scottish gaelic.
How did the 5 bases get their names
Neat little twitter thread that outlines how the five bases (4 DNA and U for RNA) got their names.
0.30000000000000004.com
Handy web page that explains the issue of floating point numbers, as it relates to different programming languages.
How can we expect borderline personality disorder patients to trust mental health services when the staff don’t trust them? | The Independent
One of the worst aspects of BPD, when it comes to getting help for those who suffer it.