Adobe is acquiring Figma. So I expect to see a lot of articles like this.
https://stackdiary.com/figma-alternatives/

'What people do in a crowd is fundamentally connected to questions of what the crowd is (its “identity”) and what it stands for or represents (its values and norms, for example).' https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-keeps-a-crowd-from-becoming-a-mob/

How to avoid the most overused words in business: Unless its opposite could possibly have something to recommend it, a word is too woolly to be truly helpful. https://www.economist.com/business/2022/05/14/the-woolliest-words-in-business

Instead of focusing on the player's performance, they developed DDA agents that adjusted the game's difficulty to maximize one of four different aspects related to a player's satisfaction: challenge, competence, flow, and valence. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-scientists-adjusts-video-game-difficulty.html

>“Everybody knows the fight was fixed. The poor stay poor, the rich get rich,” Leonard Cohen sang in his 1988 hit “Everybody Knows”.

>Blackstone — the private equity titan whose chief executive, Stephen Schwarzman, made more than a billion dollars last year — not only owns rights to that song, but has packaged it up with a host of others and securitised it as collateral against hundreds of millions of dollars of debt.

https://www.ft.com/content/e879f856-3ec3-4bd7-b564-ada5b590e3ef

The Nikon Small World in Motion contest delivers a mind-bending array of videos highlighting the microscopic world. This year features psychedelic salts, a nightmarish feeding session and a spectacular depiction of neural cells in a fish embryo. https://newatlas.com/photography/nikon-small-world-in-motion-winners-2022-gallery-videos/

The cultural reference that people are most likely to misremember is the famous exchange between Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars film "The Empire Strikes Back." https://today.yougov.com/topics/entertainment/articles-reports/2022/09/01/measuring-mandela-effect-false-memory-yougov-pol

I laughed aloud https://twitter.com/davidmackau/status/1567894552744271872

My Amazon review of Killers of a Certain Age
by @deannaraybourn 5 stars. Escapist fiction at its finest. Recommended! #cosobooks https://amzn.to/3xnzh70

The last person standing in the floppy disk business https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/we-spoke-with-the-last-person-standing-in-the-floppy-disk-business/

Want to stay up to date on Redis techniques and related trends? On Twitter, follow #Redis techies who know what they’re talking about, including @Nick_Craver @marcgravell @redisson_ruigu @itamarhaber @cjus @roilipman @dannydevmo @bsbodden @antirez @yftachsh... and many more

https://redis.com/blog/21-redis-experts-to-follow-on-twitter/

Sim Nimby, a version of Sim City where it's impossible to build stuff for increasingly stupid reasons.
I don't care if this is actually good. I think the premise is hysterical.
https://opoulos.itch.io/simnimby

I think the tl;dr of this is, "You think I'm smarter because I don't fit in. Up to a point."

"People confer higher status and competence to nonconforming rather than conforming individuals."

But the positive inferences disappear when the observer is unfamiliar with the environment, when the nonconforming behavior is depicted as unintentional, and in the absence of expected norms and shared standards of formal conduct. https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx

A useful headline tool, for those of us who stumble on capitalization styles.
Yeah theoretically I know all the rules, but that doesn't mean I always get it right. https://capitalizemytitle.com/style/AP/

Common Misconceptions About Object-relational Mapping

Most software developers are familiar with object-relational mapping (ORM), a coding technique that creates an abstraction layer between object-oriented programming languages and databases. But despite its value, ORM isn’t ideal in all situations – particularly when programmers make wrong assumptions about its use. We debunk several such mistaken beliefs so that you can use ORM the right way.

https://redis.com/blog/object-relational-mapping-misconceptions/

It all started with a celebration. On the 28th of January, 1393, a masquerade ball was held to celebrate the third marriage of one of the ladies-in-waiting of the queen. https://www.historicmysteries.com/ball-of-the-burning-men/

Cakeculator: custom cake recipes based on cake flavor, size, flavor frosting, frosting type. https://cakeculator.sugarologie.com

"For Smalltalk’s 50th anniversary this year, we spoke with Adele Goldberg, who codeveloped the language along with Alan Kay and Dan Ingalls." https://spectrum.ieee.org/qa-adele-goldberg-on-the-legacy-of-smalltalk

A woman is accused of beating her husband half to death with his guitar collection.

The judge looks down at her and asks, "First offender?"

The woman replies, "Nope, first a Martin, then a Gibson, then a Fender."

"Two competing fire brigades ran alongside horse-drawn apparatus. It’s not too far of a stretch to believe, as they arrived on the scene, that they immediately knew the fire was going to be one of epic notoriety. So of course there was the obligatory brawl for first dibs to fight it." https://lithub.com/draft-riots-tammany-hall-and-a-fire-at-barnums-museum-the-birth-of-the-nyc-fire-department/