Issue 24

[PDF] Over 130 National Security Agency (NSA) security/motivational posters from the 50s and 60s. 🔒 Localingual is an interactive website with voices from all over the world.

Jun 05, 2018

🌹 ALWAYS TAKE TIME TO SMELL THE PLAY-DOH

A global edition this week with sites that help you hear sounds from all over the globe.

A few botty links to keep you updated and on your toes.
If there's one word for robotic threats then definite is the word.

Tools and articles to make your life more interesting and your appearances cooler.

A few things from a future that's already arrived.

And, like all of life's best moments, we end with Play-Doh.

🕸️ The Cool Side of the Web

[PDF] Over 130 National Security Agency (NSA) security/motivational posters from the 50s and 60s. 🔒

A great cocktail of weird and surprising. There's a Santa Claus joke, people walking around with combination dials in their mouths, floating heads, and bad puns.

The riff on Saturday Night Fever (p. 64 if you're interested) is the highlight, for me at least.
Who knew the NSA was so...quirky?

governmentattic.org

Localingual is an interactive website with voices from all over the world.

A word of warning: some parts of the map have been ruined by trolls. Still, it is a pretty cool website.

localingual.com

Live radio streams from all over the world. 📻

radio.garden

[Long read] How everything on the internet became clickbait.

Tracks 300 years of media in America to show that the media has always had crappy elements. The internet is unique in how it manages to bring all of these elements together. In the final analysis, click-bait is the natural outcome.

Adapted from the author's dissertation on online communication.

theoutline.com

🤖 Robots et. al.

Cute, brainless, self-propelled robots could someday move around inside animals.

Researchers put them in some pens for a giggle. The brainless bots worked together to push a pen through a small opening in a wall.
Not at all comforting.

futurism.com

This skin-cancer detecting robot gets the diagnosis right 95% of the time. 🤖🗡️👨‍⚕️

theoutline.com

Honey! The cyborgs are here. Researchers put living cells in a robotic finger.

We are living in the time that future people will travel to so they can change history and save the world.
So, we've got that going for us, which is nice.

futurism.com

⚒️ Tools and Resources

Demolition Man UI recreated in CSS.

I include it in tools because I really hope someone finds a legitimate way to use it.

Also, shout-out for the How Did This Get Made Demolition Man episode. Sylvester Stallone impersonations anyone?

codepen.io

WTF - A terminal dashboard for those living their life in the command line.

It has everything you need to stay in touch without leaving the terminal. Google Calendar, GitHub, Jira, New Relic, weather, world clock...
And emojis. 😀

wtfutil.com

The GitHub evacuation center is a repo preparing for the post MS Git world.

If you won't stay on GitHub when it shifts to Microsoft, then this is a good repo to watch. It is still in its early days, but the goal is to help people find the best place for their projects once the sale is complete.

github.com

Looking for a color palette? Generate 9 random palettes with this SCSS pen.

codepen.io

🕷️ Design & Development Arena

[Video] id Software's philosophy of combat design in DOOM.

This video from the Game Developers Conference and includes great tips on product management. There is a good focus on the role of engineering in creating great user experiences.

youtube.com

Moz://a introduces us to DNS over HTTPS with cartoons.

I admit that I ❤️ any explanation with cartoons, but this one is quite good. The bit with the kids passing notes made me giggle.

mozilla.org

CodingGame is a multiplayer website which helps developers improve their skills. 🕹️

You have to write snippets that perform an in-game action. You can choose from multiple languages to practice with.

codingame.com

Advice dice for developers from Pretend Store. 🎱

If you find yourself in a trap on release day, the die will save you with advice like "It worked yesterday", "Try it now", "It works locally".
Bookmarked for Secret Santa.

Lifted from Chappell Ellison's Twitter round-up.

pretendstore.co

👩‍💻 Misc Tech

Great Scott! Scientists made a real-life flux capacitor.

Unfortunately, it will not make time travel possible. Something about quantum computers. Yada yada yada.

futurism.com

Massive Attack will live on forever in DNA storage project. 🎶🧬

Poetic. Mezzanine should be in humanity's DNA. This article is great for the explanation of how DNA storage works, but also for revealing the fact it could store everything from YouTube (about an exabyte) in 40g of DNA.

wolfcast.co.uk

The first blockchain religion is here.

Matt Liston announced his blockchain religion, 0xΩ, on May 19 at the New Museum in New York City.

futurism.com

🙃 Backwards talking dreams - Fun stuff

Hasbro has trademarked the smell of Play-Doh.

I have no legitimate way to link this to tech news.
Play-Doh has a scent?
It's been a few weeks since I used any Play-Doh, but I can't remember this scent at all.

theverge.com