Sunday 27th September, 2020 #
- New Field Recording: Motorbike Sales Guy 1
- 16,000 BBC Sound Effects are made available by the BBC in WAV format to download for use under the terms of the RemArc Licence
- How Amazon’s Luna cloud gaming service compares to Stadia, xCloud, and GeForce Now - Interestingly the iOS version of Luna is a progressive web app so they don’t have to pay Apple 30% or use their payments provider, also because it’s a progressive web app, it is completely cross platform and you can switch between any devices mid-game just by opening a URL
- Elon Musk slams Microsoft exclusively licensing OpenAI's text-generating software - I like that Elon is standing up for openess, but I’m not sure what the best approach is for AI, on the one hand the power gained from these new AI technologies is in such a massive scale that it might be quite dangerous, but is it safer to have all that power in one (or a few) company, or just have it widely available to everyone and hope that everything balances out for the better
- The failed promise of Web Components - Based on the title, you would think this article was a bit of a downer as far as web components go, but it’s actually quite a good read, with some good points made and some constructive suggestions, and it has resulted in some interesting discussion in the comments
- Vime is a customizable, extensible, accessible and framework agnostic media player - Pretty cool library if you are looking to integrate a media player to play videos from multiple places like Vimeo, YouTube etc, based on web components, should be easy to integrate into most frontend frameworks
- Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums 2003 vs. 2012 vs. 2020 - Really liked this list, very fun