estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017
"What could have been a teachable moment for students of American public policy quickly morphed into something that was mostly (although not entirely) an empty exercise," says Mike Godwin
https://slate.com/technology/2020/07/antitrust-big-tech-hearing-apple-amazon-google-facebook.html
In the mid-20th century, colleagues-turned-rivals Maria Telkes and Hoyt Hottel engineered new ways of heating American homes. https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/the-sun-queen-and-the-skeptic-building-the-worlds-first-solar-houses
Interactive Comparison of Map Projections https://bl.ocks.org/syntagmatic/ba569633d51ebec6ec6e
A list of the 50 most impactful books by Black writers published in the last 50 years. https://www.essence.com/entertainment/50-black-books-black-authors/
Arnold Schwarzenegger was asked if he wanted to upgrade to Windows 10.
He replied, "I still love Vista, baby."
"A misconfigured cloud server at global cosmetics brand Avon was recently discovered leaking 19 million records including personal information and technical logs." https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cosmetics-giant-avon-leaks-19/
Civil rights protesters did workshops before protests to ensure protesters stayed peaceful. That way no one could dismiss them as vandals or arsonists, and the news would only show the police acting as aggressors. That's how you win. https://www.life.com/history/life-and-civil-rights-anatomy-of-a-protest-virginia-1960/
A postcard helped solve a Van Gogh mystery. The location depicted in the artist’s final work, Tree Roots, is now thought to be in the French village of Auvers-sur-Oise. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53568021
New to me: Amazon Alexius, a Latin-speaking digital assistant https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=u4nx6A6tVos&feature=emb_logo
The fascinating story of African American print culture; its authors, editors, journalists, printers and publishers. https://ilovetypography.com/2020/07/11/black-print-first-african-america-printer-publishers/
'While going through Charles Petzold's "Code" book again, I was looking for an easy-to-use online assembler and simulator for the classic Intel 8080 CPU, but couldn't find anything that fit my needs exactly.' https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2020/an-intel-8080-assembler-and-online-simulator/
A Brief Introduction to the Ancient Art of Paper Marbling https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=jeGqnicNS2A&feature=emb_logo
"Every week or two the entire racing team locates to another track, and takes their mobile data center with them." And they have to keep it secure. Here's how they do it. https://www.forbes.com/sites/waynerash/2020/07/28/williams-racing-needs-world-class-performance-on-the-track-and-security/#25daf2ed5db3
A 1985 perspective on the shift of "home" from physical space to the network, rendering geographic location irrelevant and changing relationships. https://microship.com/life-in-dataspace/
Here’s Trump’s Plan To Regulate Social Media
Not sure what's going on? As usual, Rob Pegoraro connects the dots. As he summarizes the situation: A proposal to make the FCC rewrite a law through administrative rulemaking would threaten small social sites and generate vast amounts of new business for trial lawyers. Expect some of the people who denounced net-neutrality regulations to cheer it on.
"A toxic influencer is a person that covers a useful role in a community, but at the same time creates a toxic environment around them that can become bullying in some instances."
Wow, I recognize this description.
https://intenseminimalism.com/2020/the-impact-of-toxic-influencers-on-communities/
Open a window somewhere in the world. https://www.window-swap.com
The Postman Always Pings Twice
Postman is a handy tool that can help you do full stack integration testing of your APIs. Learn how to use it without requiring any panic flips.
https://www.functionize.com/blog/the-postman-always-pings-twice/
Renault gave every single resident of Appy, France an electric car, and asked in return only that they keep Renault up to date on how they like owning an electric vehicle. It's part of an experiment to prove the electric lifestyle really does work. https://www.businessinsider.com/renault-gives-french-town-free-zoe-evs-lease-france-electric-2020-7
estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017