Keith Wagner

Reading Log - August 4, 2023 (#38)

This week we look at the danger of KOSA, a new dark matter telescope, and the dangers of climate change.

👨🏼‍💻 Software Development & Design

Just normal web things. - Heather Buchel

I'm betting on HTML - catskull.net

Seven Things I Wish I Knew When I Started as a Software Developer - Beth Pritchard

Tailwind CSS Tips and Tricks Worth Knowing - Yoav Ganbar

GitHub Repository Rules are now generally available - Patrick Knight

Shrinking VS Code with name mangling - Matt Bierner


🖥 Technology & the Internet

How the Kids Online Safety Act puts us all at risk - Casey Newton


🔬 Science

AI improves breast cancer detection rate by 20 percent - Ashleigh Furlong

Prospects for Future Human Space Flight Missions to Near-Earth Asteroids - NASA

Europe’s dark matter-hunting space telescope nabs its first test images - Wes Davis

A killer ocean heatwave is decimating Florida’s corals - Justine Calma

NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2 - Laura Dobberstein

How We Can Adapt to Live with Extreme Heat - Daniel Cusick


🎮 Gaming

Microsoft keeps pushing toward repairability, now with Xbox controller parts - Kevin Purdy

Nintendo’s Switch successor is already in third-party devs’ hands, report claims - Samuel Axon


📈 Business & Finance

We’re now finding out the damaging results of the mandated return to the office–and it’s worse than we thought - Gleb Tsipursky

Startups are producing real dairy without a cow in sight - The Economist

New Georgia reactor is a test case for nuclear power - Kimberly Adams


🎧 Podcasts

Hardcore History #69: Twilight of the Æsir

ShopTalk #553: TypeScript, DX, GripeScript, and Astro v2 with Fred Schott

WTF with Marc Maron #1411: Michelle Yeoh

Radiolab: Golden Goose

Techdirt Podcast #360: Can Interoperability Be Mandated?

99% Invisible #525: The Chinatown Punk Wars

Techdirt Podcast #358: Social Media In Chaos


🎵 A Song to Leave You With

The Wonder Years - You In January (Acoustic)