TIL: The Democratic Republic of Congo is now the second-largest producer of copper in the world, ahead of Peru but behind Chile. Last year, according to the DRC Ministry of Mines, the country’s copper production amounted to approximately 2.84 million tonnes.
Nicole Froio on Black Brazilian activists maintaining its history in the nation's tech future
“We have to preserve this memory, so [slavery] never happens again”
Remember eWorld, Apple’s attempt at an ISP?
Apple Online didn’t really work out that way.
The results of the first State of HTML survey are in...
Web components were a big topic.
What happens if you drop sodium metal into a toilet? This was so satisfying to watch.
The pelagic zone
I’d like to hear LL Cool J write a song about the pelagic zone!
Welcome back Archie, the Internet’s first search engine
All Archie, no comics!
What is the Richat Structure?
The Eye of the Sahara.
A meteor in the Portuguese sky, caught on video by Milena Refacho on Instagram. Scientists claimed that the meteor traveled at more than 100,000 miles per hour and the bright blue-green* flash came from its metallic composition; the most common metallic meteors are iron-nickel, so green is a typical color.
I’ve just been reading on the Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal, where Sony BMG distributed about 22 million CDs with DRM software that created exploitable vulnerabilities.
When to use var, let, and const in JavaScript
Don’t LET VAR be a CONSTant issue in your learning!
Nearly half of the Web's traffic is a mix of good bot/bad bot, according to Imperva
Robots? More like NObots, amirite fellas?
Danny Gonzalez on the weird image AI scams that boomers fall for on Facebook
Okay, boomer!
‘No Web Without Women‘: a website dedicated to the innovations of women in computer science and tech by Selman Design. It’s nice to see a mix of women from different races and ethnicities, including Marie Van Brittan Brown who invented the first home security system in 1966 with her husband.
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.