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"A frustrated sigh, a squeal of delight, a gasp of terror and more."

A nice demonstration of why one of the trendiest web design features is TERRIBLE for your users...from 2014.

"In the age of “meeting the reader where they are,” mission-driven news orgs say they’re looking beyond the pageview — plus other lessons from ONA 2024."

"Between August 21 and September 3, 2017, unusual twilight phenomena could be observed in widespread parts of Germany. In most cases, the sky turned into a bright yellow short after sunset..."

WASM port, useful for testing.

"A bundle of Eleventy releases, blog posts, sites, and resources. Over 1,100 posts from more than 350 authors across more than 45 categories."

Despite solving the problem of scurvy in the 1700s by mandating lemon juice on long ocean voyages, in the 1800s the British switched to lime juice...which had less vitamin C. It seemed OK at first, because travel was faster. But when it became clear lime juice wasn't doing the trick, they decided it must have been something else that was causing/preventing the disease, and dropped citrus juice entirely...to the detriment of several polar expeditions that took completely wrong measures as a result.

"The actions against Telegram and Twitter/X are about sovereignty, not speech"