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- I now understand the point of fur-lined hoods
And why it was very silly of me to think of them as mere adornments: The larger fur liner creates a larger boundary layer [a thin layer of air created by molecules bumping into each other]. (Cached: fur, no fur)…
- 4 Hours of Calming Ambient Music by Moby
Was looking for an alternative to my trusty “10 Hours of IceBreaker Idling in the Arctic” and found this. over the last couple of years i’ve been making really really really quiet music to listen to when i do yoga or sleep or meditate or panic. i ended up with 4 hours of music and have decided to…
- Thought Apple’s new iPhone Pocket looked familiar... (NSFW)
I read “iPhone Pocket” and got very excited about the prospect of an updated iPhone Mini (the best phone I’ve used). But lo, a $230 mankini for your fucking phone from a very unserious group of people at Apple: “Courage” indeed.…
- The Cutaway Illustrations of Fred Freeman
Like a lot of kids I loved cutaway books (if that’s what they’re called). I would pester my parents for these and had quite a collection. Couldn’t and still can’t imagine the skill it takes to make them. So when I came by these high-res images by an illustrator from the 30s named Fred Freeman, I ex…
- The Best Cookie Recipe I’ve Heard
In German so I needed a translation.…
Bookmarks
- Alegreya is a lovely serif typefacegoogle.com
- “The worst programming language of all time” is one of the best overviews of C++youtube.com
- Repomix will pack “your entire repository into a single, AI-friendly file”github.com
- A Set of Windows Themes for Linuxgithub.com
- A 10-Week Golang Onboarding Docnotion.site
- Dropover enhances drag-and-drop with a simple mouse shake gesturedropoverapp.com
- Ice is a menu bar manager and an alternative to Bartendergithub.com
- curlie = curl + httpiegithub.com
- DOSBian will let you run DOSBox, Windows 95/98 on your Raspberry Piwordpress.com
- Grumpy.Website is a list of UI/UX Abhorrencesgrumpy.website
- Hacker Laws: A Collection of Wise, Pithy, and Funny Laws for Nerdshacker-laws.com
- PostHog’s website looks like an OSposthog.com
- Some Amazing Things You can do with Modern CSSlyra.horse
- Pyro is a “Probabilistic Programming” Library for Pythonpyro.ai
- XSL Referencevgr.land
Copypasta
- No Time to Think by Unknown
- Trip-Hop A-Z by /r/triphop
- Parsing X/HTML with Regex by StackOverflow
- Men of Value by Robert Mitchell
- Our Crazy Calendar by @foone
- The State of American Healthcare by ThatsWhatXiSaid
- The Art of Node by maxogden
- Some Laws of Software Engineering by GlobalNerdy
- A Big Collection of Bog Bodies by Gabe Paoletti
- State of the Village Report by Donella Meadows
- Enterprise Software - A Camel is a Horse Designed by Committee by Arvind Narayanan
- How To Be A Snob: Drinking Alcohol by theferrett
- 45 Jokes from The Laughter Lover by John T. Quinn
- “Goodnight Dune” by Julia Yu
- “The Last Question” by Isaac Asimov, illustrated by Ryul