This ebook, which I wrote back in 2017, explores guidelines that can help you make crucial "right item, right time" decisions and assist in the integration of new technology into existing business processes.
I'm still proud of it.
https://www.oreilly.com/content/guidelines-for-keeping-pace-with-innovation-and-tech-adoption/

I shall be thirty-one next birthday. My youth is gone like a dream; and very little use have I ever made of it. What have I done these last thirty years? Precious little.

Charlotte Brontë
Letter to Ellen Nussey
24th March 1847 (7 months before Jane Eyre was published)

Ice water and water submersion should be avoided, as these methods can lead to extreme drops in body temperature https://www.futurity.org/dogs-heat-heatstroke-temperature-2950432-2/

How often has a top 5 hit been written only by women in the last 10 years? It’s likely rarer than you think. https://pudding.cool/2023/07/songwriters/

Meet the Arizona Queen of the Night. This twiggy-looking cactus is difficult to encounter in the wild when it's not in bloom. The Garden captured a time lapse of one subspecies opening its flower.
https://dbg.org/queen-of-the-night-in-bloom/

"However, [the Twitter meltdown] is also useful for my purposes as a medieval historian in that it serves as a really excellent way of explaining to people what happened in the early medieval period."
https://going-medieval.com/2023/07/26/on-successor-states-and-websites/

This genuinely surprised me. https://www.thekitchn.com/best-way-to-store-tomatoes-23557385

Paris is getting close to the end of a $1.5-billion-dollar effort to clean up the Seine, meaning people will be able to swim in it again for the first time in a century
https://time.com/6261729/seine-clean-up-paris-olympics-2024/

A game to learn how to kern type
I suck at this.
https://type.method.ac

An early guide, written by a Christian missionary, on communicating in the language now known as Plains Indian Sign Language.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/indian-sign-talk/

Hive mind: What do you look for in choosing a monitoring tool, particularly for #microservices development?

A colleague and I are working on a blog post that aims to give useful, non-obvious guidance. What should we be sure to include... and why do you include that?

Note that we aren't aiming to recommend or endorse any particular monitoring tool. This is purely an effort to help techies identify the criteria so they can make a good choice, based on expert opinion. With you being the expert.

If scientists at the Oregon Hatchery Research Center have their way, some chinook salmon will be chasing a very different scent: the rich, beery bouquet of brewer’s yeast. https://hakaimagazine.com/news/how-far-will-salmon-swim-for-a-craft-beer/

In 2020, after being pursued by law enforcement for years, Runner was arrested in Spain and extradited on 18 counts...for orchestrating one of the biggest mail-order scams in North American history.
https://thewalrus.ca/the-greatest-scam-ever-written/

It's always been about the conversation. The platform is simply where it happened to occur.

I certainly have added to my paleo cookbook library since 2016, but I continue to cook from all of these. https://www.canadapharmacyonline.com/blog/7-Cookbooks-for-Getting-Started-with-A-Paleo-Diet.html

If you're contemplating social media post-Twitter, maybe you'll be entertained by this 2015 story that @sjvn wrote. https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/before-the-web-online-services/

"...So she convinced her paper to buy a bar. They would staff it with newspaper workers, run it like any other watering hole (with some notable exceptions that included concealed photographers), and wait to see what happened." https://www.topic.com/the-story-behind-the-chicago-newspaper-that-bought-a-bar

I had no idea this existed.
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/meet_gay_bob_the_worlds_first_gay_doll_for_everyone--penis_included