Write alternative text as if you’re describing the image to a friend.

Good advice. I learned a lot. https://cloudfour.com/thinks/write-alt-text-like-youre-talking-to-a-friend/

How many lies would Pinocchio have to tell before his nose was so heavy that it broke his neck? https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/jist/article/view/743

HHS Strengthens Privacy of Reproductive Health Care Data
The Biden Administration is issuing new regulations designed to protect women and their healthcare providers from law enforcement investigations when performing abortions or other reproductive procedures that are lawful in the states where they’re performed.
https://securityboulevard.com/2024/04/hhs-strengthens-privacy-of-reproductive-health-care-data/

NASA managed to fix Voyager One remotely, sending the interstellar spacecraft updated computer code to route around a hardware failure via a radio transmission that took 22.5 hours to arrive. Imagine rebooting a server over ssh, but the server is more than fifteen billion miles away and you don’t have a tech on-site in case something goes wrong. This team is a first-ballot shoo-in for the Ops Hall of Fame.

(I stole this write-up, but the achievement is admirable.)
https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/

"The Federal Trade Commission issued a final rule to promote competition by banning noncompetes nationwide, protecting the fundamental freedom of workers to change jobs, increasing innovation, and fostering new business formation." https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-announces-rule-banning-noncompetes

The Center for Railroad Photography & Art has a digital archive of railroad imagery. https://railphoto-art.org/center-unveils-digital-railroad-photo-archive/

Every time you click this link, it sends you to a random Web 1.0 website
https://wiby.me/surprise/

Well, then! https://theshovel.com.au/2024/04/23/elon-musk-dead-at-52-misinformation-laws/

White oaks are in trouble, and it’s a big deal for the bourbon industry, which relies on fresh wood barrels. https://modernfarmer.com/2023/10/the-bourbon-industry-relies-on-white-oaks-which-are-in-decline-now-theyre-all-in-on-saving-them/

Five Things Linus Torvalds Has Learned About Managing Software Projects
as told to @sjvn in 2008
https://www.cio.com/article/276384/open-source-tools-five-things-linus-torvalds-has-learned-about-managing-software-projects.html

While the journey wasn't without its headaches, writes Tim Stevens, the iX was a perfect companion. It delivered stellar range through an EV-charging black hole, had plenty of cargo space for two telescopes plus a weekend's worth of food and luggage, and was calm and smooth the entire way. https://insideevs.com/reviews/717010/bmw-ix-winter-update-test/

The best thing about this list of "cybersecurity women to follow” is that I didn’t know any of them — which means I have new people to learn from! https://securityboulevard.com/2024/04/the-10-women-in-cybersecurity-you-need-to-follow/

From table hacks to CSS kludges, these are some of the techniques that helped web developers get their fancy pages on the internet. https://tedium.co/2023/11/24/weird-html-hacks-history/

I listened to someone today who described their company's product as "an end-to-end solution." And all I could think of was Dorothy Parker's quote:

“If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.”― Dorothy Parker

I've never made this cake, but it occurs to me that it's kosher for Passover. Should that matter to you.
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/apple-and-almond-cake

In honor of Earth Day, take a look at Emily Dickinson’s “Herbarium,” her collection of flowers. She began it at around the age of 8. By the time she was 14 years old, she had filled it with around 400 specimens. https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:4184689$4i

Ah, those were the days! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgPuQFa7HdE

Using old insurance fire maps, researchers have enabled a machine-learning system to recreate 3D models of neighborhoods that no longer exist. https://news.osu.edu/turning-old-maps-into-3d-digital-models-of-lost-neighborhoods/