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wednesday
16 Jun 2021
Community Interaction and Conflict on the Web snap.stanford.edu

A small number of communities initiate most conflicts, with 1% of communities initiating 74% of all conflicts. The image above shows a 2-dimensional map of the various Reddit communities. The red nodes/communities in this map initiate a large amount of conflict.

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Community Interaction and Conflict on the Web
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Scaling relational SQL databases stribny.name

Many applications today still rely on traditional SQL databases like MySQL, MariaDb or PostgreSQL for data storage and data processing. With the growing amount of data and new workloads that are made with this database systems, we often find ourselves in situations where we need to think about scaling such systems.

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Development
This is Loaf. Animated SVG icons getloaf.io

SVG animations as easy, as copy and paste.

Production ready, in-built accessibility, instant search, one-click export and so much more.

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This is Loaf. Animated SVG icons
Design
Why bother with old technology? retrotechnology.com

Indeed, there is growing interest in hobby robotics as a literal "nuts and bolts" environment. But there are also moves by Microsoft and other large companies, to introduce very complex and large software tools into robotics. They claim these are "efficient" tools, but their motives are simply to grab market share with tools that you can't escape from. Whereas, if you know the fundamentals, and your tools are fundamental, you can always use other tools or adapt YOUR tools for other purposes. Knowing the basics makes you flexible, and I'd argue flexibility is still an advantage today.

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Why bother with old technology?
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bee-san / pyWhat github.com

🐸 Identify anything. pyWhat easily lets you identify emails, IP addresses, and more. Feed it a .pcap file or some text and it'll tell you what it is! 🧙‍♀️

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bee-san / pyWhat
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The UX of video game tutorials uxdesign.cc

What decisions a designer will run into while designing learning experiences.

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The UX of video game tutorials
Design
Say Hello To CSS Container Queries ishadeed.com

I haven’t been more excited for a CSS feature like I’m now in the past six years I spent as a front-end developer. The prototype of container queries is now available behind a flag in Chrome Canary. Thanks to efforts from smart people like Miriam Suzanne and other folks.

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Say Hello To CSS Container Queries
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Media Queries in Times of @container mxb.dev

With container queries now on the horizon - will we need media queries at all? Is there a future where we build responsive interfaces completely without them?

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Media Queries in Times of @container
Development
Introducing Astro: Ship Less JavaScript astro.build

There's a simple secret to building a faster website — just ship less.

Unfortunately, modern web development has been trending in the opposite direction—towards more. More JavaScript, more features, more moving parts, and ultimately more complexity needed to keep it all running smoothly.

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Introducing Astro: Ship Less JavaScript
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tuesday
15 Jun 2021
How to Get Yourself to Do Things raptitude.com

I have a special sympathy for sufferers of a particular human problem, and I get more emails about it than just about any other topic.

The moment you start acting on something, you are at the beginning of the end of the anxiety associated with that thing.

The two most important insights, however, are the first ones:

  • Ignore your “stuff”; focus only on things
  • When you don’t know what to do, get one of your things past the starting point
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How to Get Yourself to Do Things
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