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AI is getting good at a lot of things, except perhaps understanding how to eat spaghetti

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The much-loved Dark Sky was shut down at the beginning of this year after Apple acquired it and rolled it into iOS. While the data sources and algorithm may live on, the app was more than just it's data. A Eulogy for Dark Sky digs in to the little design details that really made it so loved.

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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