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People often ask me for recommendations for front-end development conferences. Picking my Top 3 would be challenging, but I know that beyond tellerrand in Germany is one of them. Location in Düsseldorf Web developers love the beyond tellerrand conference (BTConf), although the event isn't a typical web dev conf. The organizer, Marc Thiele, a lovely and special person, has a strong web dev background and affiliation. That's why many talks …

[Rewilding is] a fundamentally cheerful and workmanlike approach to what can seem insoluble problems. It doesn’t micromanage. It creates room for “ecological processes [which] foster complex and self-organizing ecosystems.” Rewilding puts into practice what every good manager knows: hire the best people you can, provide what they need to thrive, then get out of the way. It’s the opposite of command-and-control. Worth reading: “We Need To Rewild The Internet”, an …

Singapore City Map Singapore is unlike any other place in Asia. It’s a city with a lot of unusual rules: littering is illegal here, as is chewing gum, spitting, not flushing the toilet, singing in public, and feeding the pigeons. But as a result, it’s an extremely clean and very wealthy city, so well-maintained that it’s often compared to Disneyland. Singapore was featured in the movie “Crazy Rich Asians,” where …

Five academics review "Cowboy Carter" from different angles: genre, place and community, politics and the market, and the boldness of Beyoncé herself. Continue reading → The post Five Scholars Discuss Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” appeared first on Aesthetics for Birds.

When somebody agrees to do something for you, you usually expect them to keep their word. Do you expect the same when you make a promise to yourself? So what if I don’t keep that promise? It may be deceptively easy to convince yourself that promises you made to yourself are like borrowing money from yourself – it squares out in the end: If I disappoint somebody, they will be …

Do you know those autostereograms with the hidden 3D pictures? Images like the Magic Eye pictures from the 1990s that look like noisy repeating patterns until you defocus your eyes just right?ChatGPT can generate them!At least according to ChatGPT.I've seen people try making Magic Eye-style images with other image generating models, but I hadn't thought to try it with ChatGPT until reader Pippin sent me the suggestion and I generated …

Apple recently changed the App Store rules to allow emulators, which means we’re now seeing emulators for classic video game consoles available for download! This is great news for a retro gamer like myself. Delta is one such emulator that currently focuses on Nintendo platforms: NES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, SNES, N64 and DS. I thought it would be fun to play my favourite Nintendo DS game: MaBoShi. This …

Mid April, and the season is balanced with one foot leaping into spring, and the other (booted) foot still planted firmly in winter. I am absolutely loving these lengthening days though, especially since the clocks went forward into BST at the end of March and we have light evenings back again. All these extra hours of daylight are making me really happy and it goes a long way towards balancing …

La Fleur en Papier Doré (Het Goudblommeke in Papier) is a Brussels estaminet with a surreal twist that forms part of Belgium's Café Society. The post La Fleur en Papier Doré appeared first on Belgian Smaak.

The long awaited discussion between Graham Hancock and archaeologist Flint Dibble on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast is now available. Here are my thoughts after listening to the whole four and a half hour thing, and after following many more social media threads on this than I wanted to. First, people are interested in the past, they are interested in using evidence to evaluate claims, and they want to hear …

The bartender came over."Would you two lovebirds care for another round?""What?" said Miss Alcott, who had been gazing at the minstrel band, her head swaying with the music."Another round, Lou?""Oh, yes, Bret," she said, "another one of these delicious Amontillados for me and a fresh tankard of sarsaparilla for my friend Milford."You got it, babe," said Bret the bartender."And it's on my tab.""No!" said Milford. "Please, Miss Alcott, let me …

18 April 2024 Projects by IF new home page You used to be able to confidently predict that the future would look more or less like today: many things getting a bit better, some a bit worse, but all of them essentially recognisable and understandable. Progress was a process of incremental improvement, each step building on the last. But we don’t live in that world any more. AI and new …

The Joy Hotel, a musical collective hailing from Glasgow, has unveiled news of their inaugural album, “Ceremony,” alongside their debut single, “Jeremiah.” The track delves into the intricacies of grappling with uncertainties and navigating through conflicting emotions, particularly when faced with the inevitability of mortality. Having experienced the band’s captivating live performance last year, I sensed something truly exceptional about them. “Jeremiah” encapsulates their distinctiveness; it’s a sweeping, cinematic debut …

By: Stuart LoweWe've done a lot of work with hex cartograms over the years. The tools we've made are often aimed at developers or those who can make a web page. Some people have used our hex map builder tool but that was more for designing hex layouts rather than data visualisation. Now we've created a simple, cut-down, hex map visualisation tool that should make it easier to put data …