Bioicons - high quality science illustrations
Handy collection of biology-related icons.
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The Highway Code: 8 changes you need to know from 29 January 2022
Main changes to the highway code in the UK in early 2022.
IDE for Interlisp and Common Lisp
Online IDE for Interlisp (and Common Lisp).
Translating slang and corporate-speak
Fun thread with some translations of slang, but also translations into corporate-speak too. Good chuckle here.
TV Technical Difficulties [With Download Links (MP3/MP4) | [COPYRIGHT FREE]
Handy video to drop into another video when there's "technical difficulties".
How to reset AirPods, remove AirPods Apple ID - 9to5Mac
Quick tutorial on how to reset AidPods, including how to remove them from an account.
Contact myself
The seething overbelly of reflexive pronoun-abusing, spam-driven recruitment. In other words: snarky breakdowns of stupid recruitment contacts.
BPD Loved Ones: What media do you use to cope?
Thread about music and stuff that people use to help cope with being a victim of a pwBPD.
Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it (like on Linux) · mmazzarolo.com
How mindfulness can make you a darker person
Mindfulness can be a useful tool, and is rightly suggested as a tool in the toolbox of good mental health. But like all tools it can have its problems if not used correctly.
To quote form the start of the article:
"Mindfulness is thought to have multiple benefits – but it can also make you less likely to feel guilty about wrongdoing and derail your moral compass."
.plan
Online plan/finger site, which actually supports finger. Actually really rather neat.
Open plan offices are terrible for you
The evidence is overwhelming: open plan offices are absolutely terrible. For everyone. They make employees stressed, decrease team communication, and lower productivity. While there has been a lot of anecdotal evidence on this, recent studies have shown the real impact...
Penicuik Tesco opening hours
New UUID Formats
Proposed new UUID formats.
Ante
A low-level functional language, for exploring refinement types, lifetime inference, and algebraic effects.
The Documentation Triangle (or, why code isn't self documenting)
"My code speaks for itself" is the usual gate-keeper kind of nonsense trotted out by people who just can't be arsed to document their stuff but want to sound like they do it because they are so 1337. This blog post, in not very many words, gives a nice explanation as to why that's rather silly.
Git from the Bottom Up
A tutorial/reference that covers a lot of detail about git.
Amazing OBS Recording Settings 1080p 60fps – ULTIMATE Beginner Guide
A guide to setting up OBS to record 1080p and 60fps.
Why the Apple logo has a bite out of it
I forgot where now, but the other day I saw something where someone stated as fact that the Apple logo was a homage to Turing. That didn't feel likely and... seems my gut was right.
How to pronounce imgur.
There’s only one correct way!
LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe - Divinations - Every
LinkedIn is the real hellsite of the Internet.
Card punch emulator
Fun little punch card generator site -- makes an image of a punch card.
Penumbra - colour scheme
Penumbra is a mathematically balanced colour scheme constructed in a perceptually uniform colour space with base colours inspired by the shades of colour occurring in nature due to the light of the sun and the sky. It cleanly separates the perceptual properties of colours while optimally utilizing the available colour space of typical displays.
macOS defaults list
Lots of useful information about the macOS defaults command.
IP Geolocation and Threat Intelligence API
How dodgy does your IP address look?
How to make a VR game - Unity XR Toolkit 2022
Tutorial series on building for VR with Unity.
Iceberger
How would that iceberg really float? Lots of illustrations that show "the $FOO iceberg" show a berg floating in an orientation that's very unlikely. This site lets you draw the vague outline and see how it might really end up.
Setting up gpg on the Mac with pinentry and the like
How to create a Python package in 2022 | Mathspp
Musings on Python Type Hints
As a huge fan of type hinting in Python, I feel this is a good article introducing the sorts of things you should think about, and the benefits you should derive from using type hints.