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"It wasn’t that scientists didn’t recognize the declining fish populations. It was just that they didn’t realize how significant the decline was. Pauly noted that each generation of scientists had a different baseline to which they compared the current statistics, and that each generation’s baseline was lower than that of the previous one."

"A bunch of teens at picnic tables were the first people to track Sputnik I."

"All the major elements in a solar panel can be reclaimed using less energy."

"Convert a WordPress XML export to a new 11ty Blog. Contribute to jmhobbs/wp-to-11ty development by creating an account on GitHub."

How Père David's deer went extinct in the wild, but was restored from off-site backups.

Previously part of SerenityOS, now targeting Linux and macOS

Sometimes you can just use different combinations of the same few Unix tools in a 10-line shell script instead of building super complicated distributed apps with the latest tech stack.

The original Tux logo?

Just before Covid went global.

2020: "People used to think the crowdsourced encyclopedia represented all that was wrong with the web. Now it's a beacon of so much that's right."