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
Techdirt Podcast #360: Can Interoperability Be Mandated?
99% Invisible #525: The Chinatown Punk Wars
Techdirt Podcast #358: Social Media In Chaos