Our algorithms exploit the human brain’s attraction to divisiveness.
WSJ: Facebook Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make the Site Less Divisive
If you are still using Apache, time to bust out that .htaccess file.
RewriteEngine On
# Map http://www.example.com to /mynewfolder.
RewriteRule ^$ /mynewfolder/ [L]
# Map http://www.example.com/x to /mynewfolder/x
# unless there is a x in the web root.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/mynewfolder/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /mynewfolder/$1
# Add trailing slash to directories within 'mynewfolder'
# This does not expose the internal URL.
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^mynewfolder/(.*[^/])$ http://www.example.com/$1/ [R=301]
Once you get your hands in soil—really get dirty with it, feel it under your fingernails—there’s a change in perspective, and you’re someone different. You’ve opened the tiniest of windows onto the ecological reality of the forces that sustain human existence, the biogeophysical relationships of water, sunlight, air, earth.
The Pandemic Has Turned Us All into Gardeners
I’m re-discovering Basquiat after seeing his painting on the album cover of the new Strokes’ album (which is really good.)
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
Preface to the Wizard book