Opening up government ministers’ meetings with lobbyists
https://www.mysociety.org/2023/02/16/opening-up-government-ministers-meetings-with-lobbyists/ #ukpol
Chrome just opted you into a load of ad tracking bullshit. Don't forget to go in and turn it all off, if you're a #Chrome user.
A great analogy of the chaos of cell biology. "Some of the hammers have screwdrivers or saw blades poking out of the back of their handles…" https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/building-house-building-cell #biology
Happy CSS Naked Day to all who celebrate!
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/04/this-blog-strips-off-for-css-naked-day/
Happy Easter. Here’s an article where I interviewed the first programmer to ever hide an Easter Egg in software way back in 1968:
https://www.acriticalhit.com/make-love-not-war-first-software-easter-egg/
Newspeak House in that London are looking for resident fellows for their next cohort! If you're interested in tech and making things less bad, think about applying! Scholarships available: https://newspeak.house/residency
New update for my "learn-morse" website.
https://fildon.me/learn-morse/
New features:
- Both morseToText and textToMorse lessons now
- Better styling (still very minimal though!)
- Minor lesson scheduling changes which let you focus on fewer new cards at a time
Now that WebGPU is shipping(!), I want to share some thoughts on the API.
Please note that as an editor of the spec, I'm literally as biased as you can get. So take my words with a massive grain of salt, but my intent is to encourage people to try the API for themselves, not accept my opinion verbatim. #WebGPU
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/webgpu-release/
Shipwreck finds go on display at Southend Central Museum - including a fun knot-tying display
https://www.southend.gov.uk/news/article/2820/stunning-finds-from-the-london-wreck-to-go-on-display-at-southend-central-museum #southend
They’ve figured out the secret of ancient Roman concrete’s durability! And it’s really cool! https://news.mit.edu/2023/roman-concrete-durability-lime-casts-0106
Open source software is free and enables people to do great things with it. This is the #opensource software/data I've been using to create maps, process images, make animations etc. related to #NASA's #Mars2020 mission:
#GIMP : https://www.gimp.org
#Geogebra : https://www.geogebra.org
#ImageMagick : https://imagemagick.org
#QGIS : https : https://www.qgis.org
#Stellarium : https://stellarium.org
@kevinmgill's and @stim3on's flats: https://github.com/kmgill/mars-raw-utils-data/tree/61a3b4477b541d4749c66b348c2098a931369d93/caldata
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Vinyl record press (with LukHash soundtrack) https://youtu.be/KqB57ecgjko #music
The infrastructure that keeps the modern world going: a local telephone exchange https://flickr.com/photos/h2g2bob/52389503114/ #internet
Just as "serverless" means you are using more than one server, see "driverless"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-65175447 “They will have two members of staff on board.
A safety driver will sit in the driver's seat to monitor the technology, and a so-called bus captain will help passengers with boarding, buying tickets and queries.”
Unexpected consequences of small businesses being exempt from VAT
https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/01/30/vat_brake2/ #uk #economics
Our first Bleak Weekend was a great success. I can thoroughly recommend staying in a motorway service station for a weekend https://rowanmanning.com/weeknotes/127/ #WeekNotes
🗳️ Local elections are taking place across England and Northern Ireland this May.
🙋 8,519 councillors are to be elected, the largest number since 2019.
📝 Nominations for England close on 4 April. Our volunteers will be collecting these over the following days and publishing them for voters on WhoCanIVoteFor.co.uk.
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https://democracyclub.org.uk/blog/2023/03/02/whats-up-for-election-in-2023/
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