Static site doesn't mean no dynamic behavior. This example shows how to attach event listeners to a static Hugo site.
Nick Szabo is a blogger. Longreads only, all very high quality.
For the engineers among us who understand that the obvious is not always the solution, and that the facts, no matter how implausible, are still the facts ...
This post presents WaveNet, a deep generative model of raw audio waveforms. We show that WaveNets are able to generate speech which mimics any human voice and which sounds more natural than the best existing Text-to-Speech systems, reducing the gap with human performance by over 50%.
"Banks, governments, credit card companies and fintech evangelists all want us to believe a cashless future is inevitable and good. But this isn't a frictionless utopia says Brett Scott, and it's time to fight back."
Draft of the new CSS Selectors Level 4 spec from the W3C!
Text transformations with Unicode for Facebook, Twitter, etc
CSS control of the appearance of images that can't load
Learning resource for Python Flask
Guide to the upcoming CSS grids spec, looks super useful
Explains how two people can publicly exchange information to construct a shared secret that an outsider cannot discern from intercepting their communications.
aka tips for the Mad Max apocalypse
We thought it was gone forever. We were wrong. Here’s why.
http://spritesmods.com/?art=tamasingularity&page=1
Based on the XKCD about a hive of happy Tamagotchi, Jeroen Domburg has made an AI-maintained hive to keep virtual Tamagotchis happy and fed.
Charity focused on directly giving money to the extremely poor. One of the most effective ways to help, by the numbers.
Basic CSS reference
Evolving Past Overlords to Centralize or Federate Design Decision-Making Across Platforms
Describes a very accessible way to get started building a pattern library, and a shared vocabulary for talking about its elements.
Like CanIUse but for web type
Do this but add strawberries to it, and top it with powdered sugar instead of frosting.
The resources and tools for learning about the practice of front-end development. Written by Cody Lindley, sponsored by Frontend Masters
A live style guide is a great tool, but after it's been in use for a while, as the applications that use it grow, certain pain points appear. The style guide becomes unmaintainable or ignored. Lonely Planet has faced these obstacles and talks about a way forward, to a live pattern library.