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Update on FCC fake comments
Trump campaign staffers and Roger Stone involved
2019-01-31 fcc • politics • trump • ajitpai • scandal
Webpack, Rollup & Parcel
A reasonable summary of different Javascript build tools
2019-01-31 javascript • programming • web • webpack • tootme
rollup.js
A simple Javascript build tool
2019-01-31 rollup • javascript • webpack • bundle • tootme • programming
Behind Migrant Mother
The story behind the iconic Depression-era photo is way more complicated than it looks
2019-01-31 depression • photography • america • history • photos • tootme
Writing a systemd service
Simple tutorial
2019-01-31 systemd • python • programming • via:reddit • tootme • linux
Mapzen to the Linux Foundation
Details on the intellectual property situation
2019-01-30 samsung • mapzen • linux • opensource • license • mapping • tootme
No ethics for the Supreme Court
Lower court decides it has no authority to review the ethics of Supreme Court justices
2019-01-30 supremecourt • politics • justice • kavanaugh
Texas backtracks on voter rolls
Original report of 95,000 potentially fraudulent voters was way overblown
2019-01-30 texas • voting • votingrights • politics
Climate Change explained
Someone puts climate change in a context the President might understand
2019-01-30 president • trump • politics • funny • climatechange • globalwarming • russia
2020 Progressive Protest Vote
Sharp parody from McSweeney's about The Left
2019-01-29 funny • politics • parody • progressive • jacobin • tootme
Mariachi Harp
La Bamba played featuring a harp.
2019-01-29 music • mariachi • labama • harp • tootme
Brython
Run Python code in the browser with a 1MB Javascript shim
2019-01-29 python • javascript • browser • programming • web • tootme
Brian Krebs adventures
Some stories about the Internet security analyst / journalist
2019-01-29 internet • security • krebs • hacking • greyhat • tootme
atop
Linux system monitor, like top/htop/iotop but watches everything at once
2019-01-28 atop • top • linux • administration • sysadmin • tootme
Do You Still Have A Job At BuzzFeed?
The snark is intense
2019-01-28 buzzfeed • funny • media • tootme • meme • viral
23andMe life changing errors
Friend talks about discovering he's not who he thinks he was, then when 23AndMe "corrects" their data turns out he is afterall
2019-01-27 genetics • ancestry • 23andme • tootme
Hive
Archival pages from my graduate research in the late 90s
2019-01-27 mit • medialab • hive • gradschool • nelson • tootme
Satellite juggling in Tonga
Cable outage has folks with bandwidth working creatively
2019-01-26 tonga • polynesia • vanuatu • internet • network • satellite • tootme • via:hackernews
Facebook's Friendly Fraud
Damning internal communications about Facebook's online game ecosystem
2019-01-25 facebook • games • fraud
Marin 1930s transit
Streetcar map from the time that was
2019-01-25 marin • transit • bayarea • tootme • maps
Training AlphaStar
Some details on DeepMind's new game AI for Starcraft; interesting multiagent technique
2019-01-25 machinelearning • games • starcraft • deepmind • tootme • ai
Sex worker march, 1917
San Francisco history; prostitutes marched for their rights
2019-01-25 sanfrancisco • history • 1917 • civilrights • sexwork • tootme
The corrupt FCC
How the Republicans are deliberately avoiding doing any oversight, leading to abuses like the location sharing scandal
2019-01-25 fcc • privacy • politics • ajitpai
Ted Cruz vs Queso
Totally normal human talking about normal human food
2019-01-24 tedcruz • politics • funny • queso • texmex • texas
1984 Xerox PARC
A bizarre trip report from Rob Pike about the _bad_ things he saw at PARC, the place that invented so much of modern computing
2019-01-24 parc • xerox • computing • history • tootme
Intertwined quarter circles
Lovely generative art spin on truchet tiles
2019-01-24 truchet • javascript • visualization • generativeart • tootme
Tonga Internet down
Their lone cable feed broke, relying on slow satellite backup
2019-01-24 tonga • internet • pacific • tootme
Trump tweet threat
One of Trump's tools used to discourage Cohen's congressional testimony, one of many threats against his family
2019-01-23 cohen • trump • politics • corruption
Trump intimidates Cohen
The President of the United States has successfully intimidated a witness from testifying to Congress
2019-01-23 trump • politics • corruption • cohen
/r/heep
Pictures of modded Jeeps
2019-01-23 jeeps • cars • mods • tootme • reddit
Google's new chat product (2008)
Go Back to the Future with Google Lively
2019-01-23 google • lively • chat • hangouts • funny • tootme
Uranus features
Planet isn't as featureless as it first appears
2019-01-22 astronomy • uranus • weather • space • tootme
Tabasco, the company
Nice history and details on production
2019-01-22 cooking • tabasco • hotsauce • chili • chile • food • tootme
LiveJournal history
Big new article with interviews
2019-01-22 livejournal • blogging • socialmedia • internet • history • tootme
Bike elevators
More on the wacky transit option
2019-01-22 bikes • bicycling • trondheim • norway • tootme • transit
Cable car for bicycle
Crazy cool idea, an automated way to get a bike up a hill
2019-01-22 bicycle • lift • cablecar • transit • tootme
Trump's altered photos
His Facebook and Instagram accounts feature doctored photos to make his hands look bigger
2019-01-21 trump • photos • vanity • politics
Surveillance capitalism
A thoughtful take on where we are with advertising and behavioral targeting in tech companies like Google and Facebook
2019-01-21 privacy • google • business • tech • tootme • facebook • advertising
Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern
An old underground reservoir in Houston, looks amazing. /cc @SGHSRena
2019-01-21 houston • architecture • water • reservoir • cistern • tootme
MeToo backlash
Crazy shift in attitude of Trump-voting older women in attitude towards sexual harassment. A bad one.
2019-01-19 metoo • politics • trump • republicans • sexism • women
More family separations
Government doesn't really know how many children they stole from their parents, but apparently it's more than they've said so far
2019-01-18 politics • immigration • humanrights • trump
RIP Snoopy the cat
A friend's eulogy for his cat, it's very sweet
2019-01-17 cats • pets • tootme • obituary
ContraPoints: "Are Traps Gay?"
Latest video from the amazing performer / gender philosopher. It's intense, and complex, and I admire how Natalie is working at a higher level than any other media on gender I know about
2019-01-17 transgender • trans • lgbt • tootme
Riot Games still garbage
Strongly worded article about Riot's "new company values"
2019-01-16 riotgames • games • leagueoflegends • sexism
Location History Visualizer
Heatmap visualizer for Google Timeline data; kind of like my own Wanderings product
2019-01-16 wanderings • visualization • maps • heatmap • location • googletimeline
Florida Minorcan food
Amazing details of a regional American cuisine
2019-01-16 minorca • florida • food • cooking • tootme
VP wife's hate school
Wife of the vice president takes a job at a virulently anti-gay school
2019-01-16 lgbt • gayrights • pence • politics • religion
Trump is over - if you want it
The Yes Men take credit for the WaPo "Unpresidented" prank / parody. I helped fund this, apparently! (It was a blind GoFundMe)
2019-01-16 politics • parody • trump • yesmen • toot • me • unpresidented
Apple Maps: Web
DuckDuckGo is now publishing Apple Maps, this may be the first consumer web interface to Apple's maps
2019-01-16 apple • maps • cartography • duckduckgo • tootme
The Best Men Can Be
Sweet ad about what positive masculinity can be
2019-01-15 masculinity • gender • gilette • ad • tootme
Ajit Pai dodges congress
Refuses to explain why the FCC isn't protecting consumers from having their location data stolen
2019-01-15 fcc • politics • america • ajitpai • corruption • privacy
Marie Kondo 2035
It's funny
2019-01-15 funny • mariekondo • joy • tootme
Phil Are Go!
Funny parodies of 60s popular media
2019-01-15 funny • books • writing • tootme • parody
The fast food feast
A detailed analysis of the McDonald's, Burger King, and Wendy's the White House served to Clemson. (Trump lied about how many burgers were bought, inflating the number by 3x.)
2019-01-15 trump • politics • clemson • food • fastfood • america
Costs of the Confedracy
We spend $40M / year of taxpayer money on monuments to slavery and treason
2019-01-15 politics • confederacy • slavery • treason • america
Hashtag Murica
Donald Trump posing in the White House in front of a portrait of Lincoln, with an array of fast food laid out on the gilded table in front of him
2019-01-15 trump • politics • america • murica • fastfood • whitehouse
Puppet
A reminder Hillary Clinton called out Trump's being a Russian puppet back in October 2016
2019-01-15 puppet • trump • politics • russia • treason • clinton
Unthinkable
50 short essays on outrageous things President Trump has done
2019-01-14 trump • politics • outrage
Shutdown effects
Some basic charts showing the effect on the US government and economy that Trump can't even keep the government open
2019-01-14 government • politics • trump • shutdown
Electric shower head
Insanely dangerous water heating shower head. AC current gives "a tingling sensation"
2019-01-14 safety • electricty • brasil • brazil • shower • plumbing • batshitinsane • tootme
San Francisco scale model
On display for first time in years! In pieces in local libraries
2019-01-14 maps • models • sanfrancisco • urbanplanning • tootme
System Topologies Pt 2
Articles I wrote back in 2001 about centralized vs decentralized systems
2019-01-13 systems • architecture • oreilly • tootme • centralization • decentralization
System Topologies Pt 1
Articles I wrote back in 2001 about centralized vs decentralized systems
2019-01-13 systems • architecture • oreilly • tootme • centralization • decentralization
Tree Shaking
Modern Javascript build tools try to eliminate dead code. Kind of a mixed bag on how well it works in practice.
2019-01-13 javascript • optimization • webpack • tootme
Trump's secret Putin meetings
Unlike every previous president, demands there be no record of his face to face meetings
2019-01-13 putin • trump • politics
Donny Osmond, sparkle pimp
Famed white-bread singer tackles some funky David Bowiesque
2019-01-12 music • donnyosmond • funny • tootme
Destroying Fort Knocks
Eve Online players spend a year hiding battleships in a system to then pull the trigger and blow up a massive space station
2019-01-11 eveonline • eve • games • ccp • tootme
Stealing disaster money
Trump floats the idea of taking money intended for relief from natural disasters in California and Puerto Rico to fund his stupid wall
2019-01-10 trump • politics • wall
Mexico paying for the wall
A history of things Trump has said
2019-01-10 trump • politics • mexico • wall
Male genius creeps
Feynman and others who are lauded for their genius, but also treated women awfully
2019-01-10 sexism • gender • women • abuse • science • feynman
Ethereum fails
Simplest, biggest vulnerability in blockchain systems exploited for the second biggest cryptocurrency in the world
2019-01-08 blockchain • crypto • ethereum • hack • currency • tootme
RIP Blank Reg
William Morgan Shepard, character actor beloved for his work in sci-fi TV, has died
2019-01-07 obituary • scifi • maxheadroom • startrek • civilization • tootme • rip
Gaming while older
Thoughtful article on videogames and people getting older
2019-01-07 games • age • gaming • tootme
More on Ellie
The stupidity behind some men pretending to be women playing pro Overwatch. Perpetrator had been dropped because of bad behavior before.
2019-01-07 games • women • feminism • overwatch • scandal
Far Cry 5's fake fascism
Montana local takes Far Cry 5's politics seriously, finds them severely lacking in reality
2019-01-07 farcry5 • farcry • games • montana • fascism • tootme
Web performance overkill
Tom calls out some of the overengineered or broken things Google Chrome recommended websites do
2019-01-07 performance • optimization • web • programming • google • tootme
US ski maps
Interview with the artist behind most American ski maps
2019-01-07 maps • skiing • tootme
Berliner Schnauze
Berliners have a reputation for being not so friendly
2019-01-06 berlin • travel • tourism • tootme • germany • culture
Ellie was an impostor
Player that was the target of harassment turns out to have been an impostor afterall. What a shitshow.
2019-01-05 shitshow • games • overwatch • gender • harassment
iOS console logs on Windows
Blackberry of all people has a binary that lets you get access to iOS console logs on Windows.
2019-01-05 ios • logs • windows • iphone • hacking • programming • tootme
SF picking up federal trash
Because of Trump's shutdown local governments are having to do maintenance of federal lands
2019-01-05 government • politics • sanfrancisco • landsend • trump
Karen Sparck Jones
Pioneering computer linguistics researcher honored 10 years after her death with an obituary
2019-01-04 obituary • computerscience • women • computing • tootme
Woman bullied out of pro Overwatch
Monstrous "fans" doxx her and invent elaborate conspiracy theories because they believe a woman can't be good at a videogame
2019-01-04 gender • harassment • overwatch • gaming • games • feminism • blizzard
Advances in image recognition
Nice high level technical survey of why neural networks improved so much in the last 10 years
2019-01-04 neuralnetworks • machinelearning • ml • ai • imagerecognition • tootme
Birding in RDR2
An appreciation of the well-simulated wildlife of the game
2019-01-04 games • rdr2 • birds • simulation • tootme • birding
Against the Wall
A series of simple, rational explanations of why Trump's Wall is a bad idea
2019-01-03 trump • politics • wall
How Trump Got Bad at Twitter
An analysis on a shift in tone as Trump's job has changed
2019-01-02 trump • politics • twitter • tone
What Is Glitter?
I skipped this last week, which was a mistake. Great article!
2019-01-01 glitter • manufacturing • tootme