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Interesting look at pre-colonial land management and the impact of small, controlled burns.

"The following applies to minimal websites that focus primarily on text. It does not apply to websites that have a lot of non-textual content."
"My hope is for readers to consider a subset of this page the next time they build a website, and address the trade-offs they make when they deviate."

Making paint with structural color instead of pigment

Way back when Instagram (before Metastasis) first introduced their Android app and the iPhone-only userbase freaked out about *those* people being on Instagram

"We are all human. We all make mistakes. This is true of everyone, including leaders in free software communities.We often end up needing to apologize after we hurt another person. Harming someone with your words or actions is mortifying and embarrassing.Your first reaction may be to explain your reasoning — why you did what you did. You understandably want to explain that you didn’t intend to cause harm."

"an opinionated nit-picker for static websites"

"Yaupon tea, a botanical cousin to yerba maté, is now almost unknown."

Rubenerd: "Well recently I’ve started tinkering with Alpine Linux! It’s been recommended to me for years, so I’m finally getting around to checking it out. There’s a lot to like if you come from BSD, which we’ll dig into here."

Tool to import appropriately-licensed photos from Flickr to Wikimedia Commons

"If you work on open source software, especially command-line tools, I want you to know about newly available research reports and design guidance, and a user research HOWTO, that you can pick up and reuse.The … | Cogito, Ergo Sumana | Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder"