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Wednesday 8th January, 2020 #

  • Lab-grown food will soon destroy farming – and save the planet - Cheaper, healthier, better for the environment, better for non-human animals and enough food to feed everyone on earth
  • The Cornell Note-taking System - Seems like a pretty good notes taking strategy, simple and easy to remember
  • Notes on Can Tho - Urban life in the Mekong Delta - James Clark shares another great photowalk, this time of Vietnam’s 5th largest city - “Can Tho is a big city that still has a rural heart”
  • Firefox 72 - Mozilla have moved to a 4 week release cycle so expect releases more often but with less features in each release, also the javascript nullish coalescing operator looks useful, and a bunch of css stuff that I do t quite understand but sounds cool
  • Swissted is a project by Mike Joyce where he redesigned old punk, hardcore, and indie rock show flyers into Swiss modern posters - This is an attempt to bring the Sonic Youth poster to life with animation
  • Opera 66 initial release makes it easier to reopen closed tabs and to access extensions
  • ICANN’s founding chairman joins the battle to keep .org out of private hands
  • Probably a lot of people are not aware of the fact that Node.js is written in the C++
  • The Lost Landscapes of San Francisco - A Benefit for the Internet Archive - This fund raising event looks pretty fun, I wish I had more time to explore some of the historical footage on the internet archive
  • The stack I use to run this blog - I'm always impressed by the quality and quantity of the writing from Flavio Copes, so it's interesting to read about his setup
  • How to start a blog using Hugo