If you have control of the servers belonging to Visa or MasterCard, you have control of Sweden… In the meantime, we will have to keep giving our money to the banks, and hope they don’t go bankrupt – or bananas.
Issue One of an offline-only magazine of commentary, fiction, and poetry that is only viewable when you disconnect from the internet.
Well, they had me at ‘poetry’.
But that wouldn’t stop me from viewing the source, which is a single line of minified HTML. If the site is going to be a built on JavaScript components (that need to be minified for size which is completely legit), why does the HTML also need to be minified? How many bytes will that save? It feels like obfuscation, when it really is just default ‘toolchain behaviour’. HTML development has long reached a point where a HTML/CSS n00b just cannot view-source, copy, and learn anymore.
(Anyway, if you’re a n00b and want to know how they detected the offline state, your convoluted journey of discovery would start here.)
Why wouldn’t you want to see Instagram images in ASCII?
Actually, World War III in space is a truly scary prospect.
(Also worth reading: 1967 Outer Space Treaty.)
Random blogger surfing is post-modern digital archeology.
The push away from liberal arts and toward workplace skills is championed by conservatives who see many four-year colleges and universities as politically correct institutions that graduate too many students without practical job skills — but with liberal political views.
Tachyons is a fast, atomic CSS library that’s currently one of my favourite things now. Equally indispensable is the Tachyons Cheatsheet, an excellent reference for the property class names.
So Math.random() is also considered AI? Really?
See the Pen Red Zone by Dave Kwiatkowski (@davekwiatkowski) on CodePen.
Super trippy.
Two myths currently limit our collective imagination: the myth that advertising is the only possible business model for online companies, and the myth that it’s too late to change the way platforms operate. On both points, we need to be a little more creative.
1991: I wanted these so bad but I couldn’t afford them.
2018: But S$209 can pay for 2 months’ worth of utilities. So nope.
Yes, I still use an RSS reader in the year 2018. (How else does one keep up with XKCD?) My mistake, after the Google Reader shutdown, was to use a another free product. Kicking the can down the road never works out, I hear you say and rightly so.
Once upon a time, I had a hand-rolled RSS reader built on Magpie RSS. Putting aside the fact that it was PHP, it worked well enough to present the web in a chronological format. Maybe it’s time party like the 90s and roll my own reader again. I’m sure there’s an NPM library for that. (And sure enough.)