What Is React.js?
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Its proponents can be weird, it takes itself far too seriously, and its documentation is interminable. These are some ways that some people have described Christianity. This video is about React.js.
Links
luke8086/retronews
github.com
TUI browser for HN and Lobsters emulating classical Usenet and mail readers
Senator Merkley’s Picture Taken without Consent at TSA Checkpoint
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I’ve been hearing and reading about my senator’s pushback against this tech, but I didn’t really realize that the TSA intends to have a coast-to-coast facial recognition system. It seems obvious in retrospect, but it was good that he spelled it out.
A Philosophy of Software Design | John Ousterhout
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John Ousterhout, Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, discusses complex techniques on how to become a more confident coder.
Great talk and, perhaps unsurprisingly, well-delivered. I especially liked the built-in time for questions and lots of concrete examples, which show John’s experience in industry as well as academia.
Okjökull - Wikipedia
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In 2018, anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer of Rice University filmed a documentary about its loss, Not Ok, and proposed a commemorative plaque. The plaque was installed on August 18, 2019, with an inscription written by Andri Snær Magnason, titled “A letter to the future”, in Icelandic and English. The English version reads:
A letter to the future
Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.
Portland's brand new airport terminal reopens with stunning renovations
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It’s a ground-up rebuild for the airport’s main terminal, replacing and reconfiguring everything from the ticket counters and security lines to the vendor booths and lounge areas, all underneath a sprawling new wooden roof designed to let in plenty of natural light for the newly installed trees throughout the wide-open space below.
jakogut/tinyvm
github.com
TinyVM is a small, fast, lightweight virtual machine written in pure ANSI C.
terkelg/awesome-creative-coding
github.com
Creative Coding: Generative Art, Data visualization, Interaction Design, Resources.
Henderson Hummel on consumerism in electronics tinkering
henderson.lol
I look at it like a puzzle - how long can I work with what I have? You’d be surprised sometimes how well you can do without a purpose-built item, or even how eventually you might end up preferring whatever you started with. There’s a big social element to this, in that there can exist a culture within a hobby or professional circle about what is “required” and it can take a certain amount of “waking up” to realize that this is total bull.
Anyways, buying stuff: it’s a question of balance always. I can’t put a post like this out without encouraging balance.
Peace Vans ID Buzz solutions
peacevans.com
Very excited about this suite of solutions for the almost-here ID.Buzz. I’ve rented a Metris camper from them, had my Vanagon worked on, gone to events, and they are an all-around great company.