He’s writing his list, he’s checking it twice, he’s going to find which API’s nice. Santa Claus is coding to town!
Paul Ford on the climate change as a new dot-com bubble
What better way to launder money that was made from the climate crisis than to use it to ‘solve’ it.
4 AMSR videos featuring marine biology
Enjoy 4 ASMR videos all about marine biology and marine life.
Sylvester James Gates Jr. looks back at his career during the 2021 MIT Compton Lecture
‘Those of us who read history are not surprised by where we are now.’
New York Times on Loretta Staples, a pioneering UI designer
“She’s still thinking like a designer, just applying it in a different way.”
AI: the greatest Pokémon master
People have tried to beat Pokémon with artificial intelligence but to no avail. The Third Build explains his processes and pitfalls in training his AI to become a decent VGC player.
The Arctic is losing its soul
The melting ice paints a worrying picture for the Arctic.
Sharon Levy asks if animals get PTSD
Fear is prevalent in the animal kingdom and arguably more than we know.
Jess Romeo on the male-dominant world of computer science
‘While the nerd, guru, sorcerer, hacker, and bum don’t seem particularly “manly,” these identities granted programmers a perceived mastery over their discipline and the ability to monopolize competence, as well as to establish steep barriers of entry.’
The Ergast Developer API: an API of historical F1 data
Vroom vroom with the data.
An ode to a pixel
What’s in a pixel? That which we call a graphic by any other pixel would smell just as sweet.
That time Bill Gates got pie in his face
Everyone has a plan until they get pie in their face.