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  1. No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons » “Humans”? They Weren’t Kidding.

    On why ‘Humans’ season one wasn’t that good. I mostly enjoyed it at the time but all this is true.

  2. Can we stop bad-mouthing CSS in developer talks, please? | Christian Heilmann

    On why CSS is complex and good enough not to deserve being put down by some developers. (via Jeremy Keith)

  3. MacDown: The open source Markdown editor for OS X.

    “The open source Markdown editor for OS X.” Seems nice. (via Infovore)

  4. How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016

    Yeah. Bonkers. (via FaveJet)

  5. Deutsch - warum nicht? | DW.COM

    German audio series for learning.

  6. TimeMapper - Make Timelines and TimeMaps fast!

    Make a timeline thing, including maps, using Google Spreadsheets as the data source.

  7. The HURRDURR Games — Dorian Taylor

    On why most hackathons are exploitative. Includes a calculator for whether it’s worth your time. (via Favejet)

  8. Hyperloop: exclusive look inside the race to build Elon Musk’s futuristic transport | WIRED UK

    My initial reaction is that crazy Silicon Valley nonsense is infecting more and more industries, but I suppose the early days of rail were this crazy too? (via @simonw)

  9. The State of the Presidential Debate - The New Yorker

    Interesting history of the debates and how they came to be what they are. (via @antimega)

  10. Cheat Sheet: Writing Python 2-3 compatible code — Python-Future documentation

    Because this is usually where I end up when googling for this stuff.

  11. Employee #1: Amazon · The Macro

    On building the first Amazon website. (via Kottke)

  12. WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio | DeepMind

    The babbling nonsensical speech in the “Knowi What to Say” section is really eerie. Like the sound of a computer becoming sentient moments before it decides all humans should die. (via @tomtaylor)

  13. webpack-howto

    I suppose I should be at least familiar with this season’s front-end build tool.

  14. Sunken Cities – BLDGBLOG

    I’m grimly fascinated with how places are going to adapt, while the can, to rising sea levels.

  15. Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee by Jerry Seinfeld - Michael Richards

    A really nice one.

  16. Inside The Federal Bureau Of Way Too Many Guns | GQ

    How the non-computerised method of finding out who bought a particular gun, from its make and serial number, works in the US. Crazy.

  17. Income and inequality historical data explorer

    Graphing the data for successive UK governments.

  18. Sheetsee.js

    “A client-side library for connecting Google Spreadsheets to a website and visualizing the information in tables, maps and charts.” Obviously requires JavaScript, but looks like a nice way to create easily-editable data, charts, maps.

  19. When Life Is A Product Hunt — Backchannel

    The technology enthusiast logs the URL of the insightful article into his archive in the belief this will either make the insights more memorable or, at least, make him appear more discerning to the other technology enthusiasts who see the URLs he archives.

  20. Lost & Found in Borough — Medium

    Ugh, the things people just throw out. Loads of 19th century plans, documents, etc thrown out by an estate agent on Borough High Street.

  21. YouGov | The leadership effect - how leaders can shift perceptions of parties

    Because I like charts showing the left/right position of parties and politicians over time.

  22. Email transparency

    From 2013, with a 2014, update on how Stripe have (most) of their internal email visible by everyone internally. (Lots of Google Groups.)

  23. Global/universal short-links for your Amazon content @ BookLinker

    I’ve often thought this would be a good idea, but hadn’t looked to see who did it. (One URL for a book, which redirects user to their country’s Amazon.) I find it odd Amazon doesn’t do it. Or have a single international page for a book.

  24. Olympic Races, in Your Neighborhood - The New York Times

    Very nicely-done (couldn’t be simpler) thing showing you how long and fast races are from your address. A bit like BERG’s old How Big Really.

  25. McMansions 101: What Makes a McMansion Bad…

    A nice summary of some architectural principles using McMansions as examples of how not to do it. The rest of the site’s great too. (via Kottke)

  26. Marp - Markdown Presentation Writer

    Open source, multi-platform. Might be worth a look as I found Deckset frustrating and a bit limiting. (via Brett Terpstra)

  27. 39 ways to save on theatre tickets - London Undiscovered

    Surprisingly, a not terrible list, with some things I didn’t know about.

  28. They Could Have Picked… (London Review of Books)

    Eliot Weinberger on all the Republican presidential candidates other than Trump. At this point it’s become easy to forget that they were *all* nutjobs. Still, makes me thankful to live in the UK.

  29. Jared Leto’s ‘Suicide Squad’ Performance Proves Hollywood Has Ruined Method Acting - The Atlantic

    More interesting than its title suggests. On the male Method actors who suggest you have to suffer for the role in order for it to feel like real work. And how differently female Method actors are treated.

  30. There’s No App for That: Adventures in Conserving Old Tech · SFMOMA

    About the difficulties of starting up a mint iPhone 1 and exhibiting it as a working thing. And HyperCard. (via @antimega)