Recent links I found that were interesting:
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DON'T YOU LECTURE ME WITH YOUR THIRTY DOLLAR WEBSITE - A little sequencer with miscellaneous sounds, sounds are rearrangeable and represented with little images. Fun, and the 6 year old likes it because it is simple and some of the sound effects are the same ones that his favorite YouTubers use. But... emoji in the URL? 🙄
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How the gut tells the difference between sugar and artificial sweeteners
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Is HTML a programming language? This person decided to make a javascript library that turns HTML into a programming language for sure. (Okay, 5 points for being clever, but do we really need another HTML templating language?)
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Documenting APIs: A guide for technical writers and engineers - A full course on the subject!
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New third party battery gives over 700 miles of range in an otherwise stock Tesla
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Foundations of Functional Programming/The λ-cube - "The λ-cube is a set of eight type theories which combine three different type system features in all the possible ways." - super math/computer science nerdy
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Why Galesburg has no money - Good summary of the issues frequently covered in Strong Towns. With some ideas that folks have had to break out of the cycle, still everything is a mess though. (I should really make my own whole page about this because I think about it a lot)
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Simplest Arduino UNO clock ever - This guy claims to have a good mechanism for monitoring and handling clock drift in an UNO so you can run a clock without a crystal (mostly). I'm skeptical of some of his hardware claims, and I haven't tested any of this code, I'm mostly putting it here so I can remember and reference this in an upcoming project I'm working on.
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The biggest secret in political science - Political parties rarely actually influence what legislation gets passed. Increases in partisanship are more like, warring sports teams.