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Dec 11, 2023 from Darek Kay

Video subtitles, captions, audio descriptions and transcripts

The difference between subtitles, closed captions, audio descriptions and transcriptions, including related accessibility guidelines.

Dec 11, 2023 from nutcroft

Applied anthropology

On my way to an anthropology lecture today, I learned much more about humans than I could expect of the lecture. To clarify: the content of the lecture was great yet, with respect to understanding ...

Dec 10, 2023 from Outside the Asylum

Understanding Subjective Probabilities

Does it make sense to talk about the probability of a future event that's more complicated than a die roll or coin toss?Traditional entry-level math education leads people to many misconceptions in...

Dec 09, 2023 from Home on Random effect

Small commands for a more usable Gnus

I’ve written a bit about Gnus on the blog before, but if you are just now starting to follow along, all you need to know is that Gnus is kinda like Outlook, but it’s highly user-configurable, it su...

Dec 07, 2023 from Silence Calling

Books

These books chatter on my shelf day and night

Dec 07, 2023 from Ishan Das Sharma

To A Man With `jq`, Everything Looks Like JSON

Featured Photo by energepic.com I’ve had a love-hate relationship with Bootstrap for a long time. While I love how fast it lets me get going, I absolutely hate the cookie cutter vibe of most of the...

Dec 04, 2023 from Tim Bachmann's Blog

My Selfhosting Setup

A short overview on how I self-host.

Dec 04, 2023 from ~gallant

A Consideration of SQL ORMs

Conventional wisdom in modern software development generally endorses the use of an ORM. "Any project that doesn’t use an ORM will end up with a poorly implemented partial ORM." Most developers are...

Dec 04, 2023 from William Lyon's Blog

Finding The Perfect Christmas Tree With USFS Motor Vehicle User Map Data, QGIS, & SedonaDB

Using aerial imagery and Spatial SQL to explore Forest Service road networks

Dec 03, 2023 from Benny Powers: Web Developer

Leaving Mastodon

Mastodon is probably a great idea, but is extremely hostile to Jews, so I'm out

Nov 30, 2023 from Coding Horror

I Fight For The Users

If you haven’t been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year, I don’t blame you. There’s a lot going on right now. It’s a busy time. But let’s pause and take a moment

Nov 29, 2023 from Outside the Asylum

The Worst Crime

I contemplate what's the worst thing a judge could do.

Nov 28, 2023 from Outside the Asylum

Prediction Markets Are Not Polls

Prediction markets have been growing in popularity lately, and I address a common point of confusion.

Nov 28, 2023 from Ishan Das Sharma

Accidentally deleted your .bashrc?

When beginning to use the terminal, we might accidentally delete our .bashrc file. What is the .bashrc file? The .bashrc file is a configuration file used by the bash shell. It contains all the env...

Nov 26, 2023 from Remote Synthesis

Updating Your Netlify Functions to 2.0

Netlify Functions 2.0 offer some important improvements, but, to take advantage of them, you'll need to make some simple updates.

Nov 25, 2023 from Muffin Man

Moon Phases • Art

It is incredibly hard to take a good photo of these. Colors have metallic reflection which I wasn’t able to capture, but it is very prominent in person. They are plotted using five different color ...

Nov 22, 2023 from Silence Calling

Compulsions

Like the desire to drink liquor Or the irresistible pleasure of sex

Nov 22, 2023 from unixdigest.com

Upgrading to FreeBSD 14 - how to fix a broken BIOS bootcode

A lot of people running ZFS zroot have managed to break their FreeBSD systems upgrading from 13.2 to the new 14.0 release because of a broken BIOS bootcode. In this tutorial I'll show you how you c...

Nov 21, 2023 from Remote Synthesis

Building a (Virtual) Events Site

What does it take to build and run a site that hosts virtual events? Let's dig into how mine is set up.

Nov 19, 2023 from Sagar Tiwari's blog

Build static websites using ReactJS and ConstexprJS

Describes how reactjs can be used to render static websites