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I'm going to talk about my work today... to 4 year old kids at my daughter's school :)))
I hope my wet lab skills are good enough to isolate a DNA from banana!
#science #dissemination

Cory Doctorow, uncharacteristically humorous (rather than just sarcastic).
Also, as an American, I support his proposal.
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2026-01-13-not-sorry-mere-billions-40dd2b261390

When your form has a validation failure, you should show the submitted data prefilled in the form.
NOT erase the big textarea of information I just provided you that I didn't save to the clipboard before posting, assuming your web developers are competent.
Only unprofessional morons make sites that bad...
#WebDev

Many folks are reflecting on Prince’s extraordinary halftime performance, the greatest of all time. What you may not know is that it was a profound, nuanced statement and a powerful reclaiming of a proud Black music tradition. Some background: https://anildash.com/2021/02/05/how-pri…

How Prince won the Super Bowl
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…

Traits in #PHP are a limited purpose tool, but they do have a purpose.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/beyond-abstract

In the fall of 2021, after a remote year, I was teaching in person wearing a mask close to 100% of the time. A few weeks into one intro course, where the students didn’t already know me, I lowered my mask for a moment and there were audible gasps from the class. They’d never seen the lower half of my face!
“What did you •think• was going to be down there?!” I quipped. (Maybe they were picturing tentacles, like an Ood?)
But the gasp was genuine: after hours of looking at my masked face, they still had no idea what my •unmasked• face looks like.
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Senate unanimously approves installing Jan. 6, 2021 plaque (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/08/congress/senate-unanimous-approves-jan-6-plaque-law-enforcement-00717799
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p138#a260108p138

"Please provide the information in the following bulleted list, in the big textarea below."
Bro, do you even know how forms work?
#WebDev

Meta has announced plans to discontinue support for end-to-end encryption for chats on Instagram after May 8, 2026
https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/meta-to-shut-down-instagram-end-to-end.html?m=1

Meta to Shut Down Instagram End-to-End Encrypted Chat Support Starting May 2026
Meta will end Instagram E2EE chats May 8, 2026, reversing a 2021 privacy test and reigniting debate over encrypted messaging oversight.

from my link log —
High performance correctly rounded math libraries for 32-bit floating point.
https://blog.sigplan.org/2021/08/26/high-performance-correctly-rounded-math-libraries-for-32-bit-floating-poi…

High Performance Correctly Rounded Math Libraries for 32-bit Floating Point Representations
Everyone uses math libraries. Surprisingly, mainstream math libraries do not produce correct results for several thousands of inputs. Developers are seldom aware of them, which affects reproducibil…

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1211359 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Kleiner #Winterspaziergang im #Stadtwald im Februar 2021. Für wenige Tage gab es #Schnee. 😊
Für eine

I was just listening to "Strong Songs", one of my favorite podcasts, but it was re-airing an episode of "Aria Code", a podcast I haven't heard before, about single opera arias.
This half hour episode from 2021 is looking at Nessum Dorma, intersecting it tightly with vignettes by an ICU doctor describing moments from the first year of the pandemic. It's very much worth a listen - uplifting, emotional, hopeful. Vincero!

Puccini's Turandot: Hope Never Sleeps | Aria Code | WNYC Studios
“Nessun Dorma” has long been opera’s crossover hit. But in the last year, it’s become something more -- an anthem of hope.

Zugegeben - ein kleines bisschen stolz sind wir #Hessen schon auf unsere inzwischen sieben #UNESCO-#Welterbestätten.
2021 kam die Darmstädter

from my link log —
The Wendelstein 7-X fusion stellarator proves its efficiency.
https://www.ipp.mpg.de/5125328/05_21
saved 2021-08-17 https://dota…

The Wendelstein 7-X concept proves its efficiency
One of the most important optimisation goals underlying the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device at Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald has now been confirmed. An analysis by IPP scientists in the journal Nature shows: In the optimised magnetic field cage, the energy losses of the plasma are reduced in the desired way. Wendelstein 7-X is intended to prove that the disadvantages of earlier stellarators can be overcome and that stellarator-type devices are suitable for power plants.

from my link log —
The rise and fall of the OLAP cube.
https://www.holistics.io/blog/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-olap-cube/
saved 2021-07-05

The Rise and Fall of the OLAP Cube
A definitive history of the rise of the OLAP cube, how it's affected our industry, and what comes after.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
Wet Leg:
🎵 Chaise Longue (6 Music Session, 4 Oct 2021)
#WetLeg
https://longdissonance.bandcamp.com/track/wet-leg-chaise-longue
https://open.spotify.com/track/7iqAuZe5yS0suLQcFfVK39