Links
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Generating fantasy maps
A nice post on how the imaginary maps for @unchartedatlas are generated using JavaScript.
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Who Are All These Trump Supporters? - The New Yorker
A good read by George Saunders. “What unites these stories is what I came to think of as usurpation anxiety syndrome—the feeling that one is, or is about to be, scooped, overrun, or taken advantage of by some Other with questionable intentions.”
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Building with Make - Device Ready
A nice introduction to using Make to build your JS files, run other tasks, etc. (via Tom Taylor)
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Dashboards and journalism: why we need to do better | Online Journalism Blog
From 2015, a summary of some dashboard-type screens, mostly focused on the needs of journalists.
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A basic Celery on Heroku guide
This was also a nice write-up, with lots of handy tips, and barely out of date (a miracle, it seems).
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Python developer articles - Django celery setup
Some bits of this were useful. And start-to-finish, not too wordy, examples like this are nice.
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‘Once you can handle the insults, you begin’: inside Philippe Gaulier’s clown school | Stage | The Guardian
Lots of good nuggets about what it means to be on stage. And Gaulier’s manner sounds very like that of a teacher I had years ago, who was great.
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“I’ve never had a goal”
On the benefit of not setting yourself goals.
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German for English Speakers | A free online resource
Clear, helpful, simply laid out, no distractions. It’s odd, and a shame, that such virtues feel “old fashioned” on the web.
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“You carry a 00 number, it means you have License to kill, not GET killed!” | MetaFilter
Nice comparison of Bond with the full-time, permanent company man, versus Bourne as a freelance flexible worker.
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Turning your anxiety into excitement
I’ve only tried this with not-too-bad, low-stakes anxiety/nervousness but it seems promising so far.
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eject_all_disks
AppleScript to eject all ejectable disks with one click. (via @craigmod)
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A final response to the “Tell me why Trump is a fascist”.
Amazing list. (via @spongefile)
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The Satoshi Affair (London Review of Books)
An entertaining long read by Andrew O’Hagan about Craig Wright proving that he’s Satoshi Nakamoto.
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How climate change is rapidly taking the planet apart - flassbeck economics international
Summary of the situation. Only read with a stiff drink to hand. (via @paulpod)
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The Incomplete City — But what was the question? — Medium
Dan Hill on a fascinating week-long workshop at the Bartlett, with students creating a wall-sized 3D plan of a city.
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I’m With The Banned — Welcome to the Scream Room — Medium
Laurie Penny. A good read, but depressing. I don’t know what you, we, do when people who believe nothing get all the attention.
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Shaula Evans on Twitter: “Hey friends…”
On why you shouldn’t get the ‘Verified’ mark that Twitter now allows anyone to claim.
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Ryan A. Chapman — Vagrant: show port forwarding for all virtual machines
Annoying that there’s no built-in way to get this info, for all running VMs, but this appears to work.
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A Sense of Where You Are — Elegant Tools — Medium
Tom Broxton very good on gathering evidence about how long the designing and building of digital things actually take, so you can convince people your pessimistic-sounding estimates are accurate.
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In the US, Brexit has become a shorthand for ‘Sorry your country failed’ | Arwa Mahdawi | Opinion | The Guardian
I’m glad I haven’t been abroad since Brexit. British friends in the US are saying this has been their experience too.
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Why We Need to Pick Up Alvin Toffler’s Torch - The New York Times
About how futurism isn’t really done any more. Although he only talks to one (maybe) futurist. (via @MikeForester)
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Summertime.fm
Annual summery mix tapes from DJ Jazzy Jeff & MICK. (via Waxy)
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A-Z Index of Euromyths 1992 to 2016 (European Commission in the UK)
Hundreds of myths about EU rules. (via @dracos)
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That Summer Vacation Collar
On casual, summery, shirt collars.
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Thoughts on the sociology of Brexit - Political Economy Research Centre
Another good read on understandable reasons why people have voted for Out. (via @tomskitomski)
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‘If you’ve got money, you vote in … if you haven’t got money, you vote out’ | Politics | The Guardian
A good read for getting beyond “Out voters are all racists!” (via @tomskitomski)
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The Americans: Slate TV Club Insider by Slate Magazine on iTunes
Episode-by-episode from season three, for when we get there. (via Beeker)
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About 1999.io
New blogging service from Dave Winer. I know, but I made things with Userland Frontier back in the day so I have a soft spot for his stuff sometimes. (via @spongefile)
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The Untold Story of Magic Leap, the World’s Most Secretive Startup | WIRED
Kevin Kelly’s overview of Mixed and Virtual Reality systems is a good read if you haven’t been paying enough attention, like me.