2019, February

  • 7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI (Updated for 2019) - Part 1 - A guide to visual aesthetics, written by a nerd (Erik D. Kennedy).
  • 7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI (Updated for 2019) - Part 2 - The second part of Erik D. Kennedy’s guide.
  • Ant species cultivates coffee for accommodation - Scientists on the island of Fiji have discovered a type of ant that plants, fertilizes and guards its own coffee crops. More on that discovery is shown on the article.
  • Could an astronaut’s corpse bring new life to another world? - This article from Astronomy talks about the possibility of a corpse of a dead astronaut to bring life to a new world.
  • Creating distraction-free reading experiences - Adrian Zumbrunnen’s reflections on how to create pages on which the content is the main attraction and is treated with due respect.
  • CSS Reference.io - Learn by example - It’s a free visual guide to CSS. It features the most popular properties, and explains them with illustrated and animated examples.
  • Do Not Eat, Touch, Or Even Inhale the Air Around the Manchineel Tree - Meet America’s deadliest tree on this article.
  • Evidence that birds sleep in mid-flight - Many birds fly non-stop for days or longer, but do they sleep in flight and if so, how? This Nature’s scientific article discuss about this fact.
  • Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News - Interesting article pointing out that following the news doesn’t necessarily makes you a better citizen and could be taking some precious time of yours.
  • Google teaches “AIs” to invent their own crypto and avoid eavesdropping - Ars Technica’s 2016 article talking about Google Brain’s creation of two AIs that managed to create a cryptographic algorithm good enough to protect their exchange of messages from a third AI.
  • It’s Official: A Brand-New Human Organ Has Been Classified - It’s an article from 2017, but still is pretty new, comparing to other organ discoveries.
  • Music for Programming - A collection of playlists to aid in prolonged periods of intense concentration.
  • Sweden’s six-hour working day is ‘too expensive’ and could be scrapped - This article describes the results of a 2-year pilot of a 6-hour working day experiment.
  • Ten CSS One-Liners to Replace Native Apps - Proving the functionality of CSS Multi-column Layout and CSS Figures, Håkon Wium Lie, the CSS proposer back in 1994, shows 10 CSS one-liners that try to replicate some of the common designs that are seen on native apps.
  • The triumphant rediscovery of the biggest bee on Earth - Ars Technica’s article on the rediscovery of the Wallace’s Giant Bee
  • Wat - a humorous take on programming. Short and funny talk.
  • What Do My Testicles Do All Day? - If you ever wondered about this… Well, this post has the answer.
  • Which Language Uses the Most Sounds? Click 5 Times for the Answer - The New York Times’ article talking about the peculiarities of the Taa language.
  • You’re an Adult. Your Brain, Not So Much. - The human brain reaches its adult volume by age 10, but is it really finished? This article talks about this.