The folks at Cruncher wrote a blog post on how to write sheet music with CSS Grid. It’s amazing what you can do with just the cascade.
Shameless plug as I work for Impression but worthy of sharing, nonetheless. A few of my colleagues wrote a great piece on the importance of accessibility on airline websites and how to improve UX to give EVERYONE a better experience, whether you’re booking a flight or checking flight statuses.
IEEE's 'Jamaica Section' held a STEM workshop at the University of Technology in Kingston
‘[…] the country plans to launch STEM schools that integrate science, technology, engineering, and math subjects because “that’s where the magic happens.”’
512 Pixels on the Apple Jonathan concept computer
Built different.
CHM Live hosted a talk on the Apple Mac at 40 in January this year, featuring Bill Atkinson, Steve Capps, Andy Cunningham, Andy Hertzfeld, Bruce Horn, Susan Kare, Dan’l Lewin, and Mike Murray. As well as talks from insiders and experts on the computer’s impact on the industry and society overall.
For Rest of World, Victoria Turk analyzed 3,000 Midjourney images to see how they portrayed different countries, cultures, and races: for example, ‘An Indian person’ [the prompt] is almost always an old man with a beard
while ‘A Mexican person’ is usually a man in a sombrero.
Two Redditors tried to capture the most ridiculously detailed image of the entire Sun they could
and ended up with a 140 megapixels image.
Gorgeous photos of the Moon in May 2021
Will you shoot the moon with me?
Williams Racing's James Vowles calls teams car parts Excel spreadsheet 'a joke'
Putting the formula into Formula 1!
Some links about pi for Pi Day
A celebration of transcendental numeration, no matter how you slice it.
The einstein tile: a never-repeating pattern made from a 13-sided shape
Genius, honestly.
Which is your favourite variable naming conventions?
Not quite an open and shut case.
What is frisson?
A fancy word for chills.
TIL: Pakistan is home to more than 7,000 known glaciers, and therefore has more glacial ice than any other country (excluding the polar regions).
Johannes Max Brückner was a German geometer, best known for his amazing collection of polyhedral models which you can read in his book, Vielecke und Vielflache, Theorie und Geschichte (via Present & Correct, Colossal, and Sidebar)
Casimir Funk (born Kazimierz Funk) was a Polish biochemist best known for formulating the idea of vitamins and Google has honoured his 140th birthday with a Google Doodle today.
The Banff Wildlife Crossings Project
A great way to save some animals.
From Space.com: Humanity is slowly losing access to the night sky, and astronomers have invented a new term to describe the pain associated with this loss: ‘noctalgia,’ meaning ‘night grief.’