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Modern Font Stacks is a collection of CSS font stacks organised by typeface classification. It's beautifully organised with great comparison tables and GIFs in the GitHub repo.

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Time zones are already pretty complicated, lets make them more complicated by adding a new lunar time zone

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Everything you need to know about Plutonium - The most dangerous substance known to man?

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Twitter announces, with a mere one weeks notice, the end of free access to the Twitter API and with it the death of thousands of useful bot accounts. Goodbye Twitter

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Be curious. Have an open mind. Strong opinions, weakly held. Or as @sivers puts it - Lose every debate

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Well Chronophoto is a fun little game, it's like GeoGuessr but you have to guess when the photo was taken rather than where.

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Thanks to MAME & the Internet Archive, you can now emulate calculators right in your browser.

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Why is there more than one 'North' 🤷‍♂️ Why three 🤷‍♂️ And why are they aligning over the UK 🤷‍♂️

Watch North by North-North to find out

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Wordle - A fun new word-a-day game

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Telcos & 5G as a brilliant example of why outscourcing sucks

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Mars? Mars Sucks!

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Learn to use console.log() like a pro

Making software is hard, making software at scale is even harder

What makes a great technical interview process? Factorio does

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Git is your friend, even as a solo delevoper

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A great list of resources to help you become an awesome CTO

Rockstar hasn't fixed GTA Online loading times, so someone else tried

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I'm sure there's an actual reason for using pixel shaders in Windows terminal, but I can't think of one.

If you have a SaaS product, you should have no free plan

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Yesterday @bradtaunt's launched 1MB Club which celebrates sites which download less than 1MB of resources. I figure we should have a stick to work with his carrot, so here's 10MB Club. A 'hall of shame' for site requiring over 10MB of resources.

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An argument for publishing DKIM private keys, once they've been rotated out — Ok Google: please publish your DKIM secret keys

Lets find out how Spotify codes work

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The Blockchain is an amazing solution for almost nothing

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DeepFaceDrawing turns any free-hand face sketch in to a photo-realistic image

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Untools - tools for better thinking

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The untold story of Marcus Hutchins who stopped the 2017 WannaCry ransomware, before being arrested by the FBI.

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Sometimes you're damned if you do, damned if you don't