That time when an orange juice company dumped 12k tons of orange peels on barren soil in Costa Rica
What a remarkable orange-ment!
John D. Cook wrote an interesting blog post on mentally multiply by π should you not have access to a calculator. As someone who remembers π to 11 decimal places and used it as a chat-up line once (it kinda worked), this resonated with me.
I found this site via wiby that showcases a ton of vintage computer product designs from the 80s, 90s, and early 00s. What a time to be alive.
Jamaica's bauxite problem
What is theirs is mined.
Terry Callier: the computer programmer
Gives a new meaning to double consciousness, huh?
Harry Roberts asks why would you use blocking=render in your style and script elements: The short answer is: generally, you wouldn’t. Unless you know you need this behaviour, you don’t need it. But how do you know if you do need it?
The Real Python Podcast, featuring Jay Miller from Black Python Devs
We outchea, Python coding!
Kiara Tymec of Kiara's Workshop made a working Poké Ball
It’s a whole new world we live in!
Shout out to Ashwin Sah and Mehtaab Sawhney on their big number proof
The proof is in the… inputting?
The Microlino
It’s like Brum but for the 21st century. And Italian.
Jay Hoffmann on the significance of a ‘cool URL’ and how link rot is affecting them: Links give greater meaning to our webpages. Without the link, we would lose this significant grammatical tool native the web.
TIL: PS3 clusters were used as cost-effective supercomputer networks
If you had a couple of million dollars in the late 00s, you could have built a supercomputer of your own.