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Where the Minutes Are Longer: The Weird Science of Telling Time on Mars - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/08/where-the-minutes-are-longer-the-weird-science-of-telling-time-on-mars/260967/

I really should make a martian clock. It should somehow be political though.

 
Added 7 months ago
Halsema krijgt vanwege 750 jaar Amsterdam een speciaal jasje – en het wordt op de Nieuwmarkt en de NDSM gemaakt | Het Parool
https://www.parool.nl/ps/halsema-krijgt-vanwege-750-jaar-amsterdam-een-speciaal-jasje-en-het-wordt-op-de-nieuwmarkt-en-de-ndsm-gemaakt~b0b6e1e0/

Natural colours, coloured landscape in Amsterdam

 
Added 7 months ago
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. | MIT Technology Review
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/

Depressing stats about using ridiculous amounts of energy

 
Added 6 months ago
Why and How to Write Minimal and Valid HTML, a Link Guide · Jens Oliver Meiert
https://meiert.com/blog/minimal-and-valid-html/

A list of resources about minimal(ist) HTML. As with all minimalism, in a way it continues removing stuff until it is broken, and then it stops, which is one step too late. It should stop before it is broken. In this case: keep HTML readable for humans when viewing source.

 
Added 5 months ago
Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist
https://gizmodo.com/wall-streets-ai-bubble-is-worse-than-the-1999-dot-com-bubble-warns-a-top-economist-2000630487

One of many people warning for a bubble

 
Added 5 months ago
A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online
https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/

Very, very nice article about the independent web. For my students.

 
Added 1 month ago
How Sonic DNA Connects Generations of Music
https://pudding.cool/2025/04/music-dna/

Interesting tool to see how music is linked. Works the same with all kinds of creativity and art of course, we could use more of these visualising tools

 
Added 6 months ago
Counting Photons
https://letterror.com/articles/counting-photons.html

Absolutely fantastic article that calculates the amount of photons that reach the eye from a single, printed letter.

 
Added 7 months ago
(optional.is) Latency and the Sea
https://optional.is/required/2025/07/03/latency-and-the-sea/

Fun exercise that compares internet speeds to nerve-speeds in animals.

 
Added 5 months ago
Don't Inherit the Box Model | OddBird
https://www.oddbird.net/2025/09/04/box-model/

Excellent explanation of why box-sizing: content-box can be useful.

 
Added 3 months ago
Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders
https://leanrada.com/notes/css-only-lqip/

Oof, what.

 
Added 5 months ago
Software Development at 800 Words Per Minute | Dickson Tan's blog
https://neurrone.com/posts/software-development-at-800-wpm/

Very detailed explanation about how to develop software using a screenreader.

 
Added 5 months ago
A Few Things About the Anchor Element’s href You Might Not Have Known - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/href-value-possibilities/

Some excellent nerdy and niche HTML knowledge about the href attribute value.

 
Added 3 months ago
Luister naar moslimvrouwen, zegt schrijver Houria Bouteldja. ‘Een vrouw met hoofddoek zegt tegen witte mensen: ik behoor jou niet toe’ | de Volkskrant
https://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/luister-naar-moslimvrouwen-zegt-schrijver-houria-bouteldja-een-vrouw-met-hoofddoek-zegt-tegen-witte-mensen-ik-behoor-jou-niet-toe~bc577135d/

Bovendien is het moeilijk voor te stellen hoe radicale gelijkwaardigheid eruitziet, het is onbekend terrein. Ik weet ook niet hoe een wereld zonder uitbuiting eruit zou zien, maar de huidige wereldorde leidt tot oorlog en geweld, dus het is het onderzoeken waard.

 
Added 5 months ago
Do you speak typography? » Fontstand News
https://fontstand.com/news/essays/do-you-speak-typography/

Very interesting article about the work that went into creating Words of Type.

 
Added 7 months ago
Brutal Types | The home of Interwar Period fonts
https://www.brutaltypes.com/

Interesting “brutalist” typefaces

 
Added 6 months ago
Hoe meer wapens Europa koopt, hoe onveiliger het wordt, stelt deze onderzoeker - De Correspondent
https://decorrespondent.nl/16200/hoe-meer-wapens-europa-koopt-hoe-onveiliger-het-wordt-stelt-deze-onderzoeker/4ea38a6d-8d80-030d-0142-70bcbc94e852

Pacifisme is de oplossing.

 
Added 5 months ago
Python: The Documentary | An origin story - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=GfH4QL4VqJ0

Nice docu. Interesting insights about how to run things, and how to do inclusion.

 
Added 5 months ago
Friction and not being touched
https://tante.cc/2025/07/30/friction-and-not-being-touched/

AI is an everything machine, which fits perfectly in a frictionless dystopia. A plea for more friction. I agree fully.

 
Added 5 months ago
The sound of inevitability | My place to put things
https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/

Some interesting ideas here, most notably that you should decide what the discussion is about. At the moment, silicon valley decides and that’s bad.

 
Added 5 months ago
About Contracts
https://letterror.com/articles/contracts.html

Excellent advice for creative professionals about contracts. It’s written for people who make fonts, but it’s solid advice for more creatives.

 
Added 7 months ago
Fonts In Use is not active on Instagram - Fonts In Use
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/63903/fonts-in-use-is-not-active-on-instagram

When people say it’s hard to leave insta or whatever, this is a good link

 
Added 5 months ago
Is HSL really easier to use? • Chris Lilley
https://svgees.us/blog/hsl-bad.html

So there is no scientific proof that hsl is easier to use. But it does resemble the way human describe colours, much more than rgb.

 
Added 7 months ago
Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations – Retraction Watch
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/springer-nature-book-on-machine-learning-is-full-of-made-up-citations/

It's easier to do sloppy work nowadays.

 
Added 6 months ago
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