Ryan Broderick on Twitter: “We built a thing! I’m part of a group called @digivoidmedia and we recently teamed up with @wttdotm to build what we’re calling the Super Fungible Token. Simply put: You feed it a link to any image (or NFT) on the internet and INDEX — Deep Sea Diving on the Web […]
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Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-01-16
The Einstellung Effect – Futility Closet Psychologist Abraham S. Luchins discovered a discouraging phenomenon in 1942: When people find a problem-solving strategy that works successfully in multiple trials, they’ll tend to adopt the same strategy even in situations when more efficient solutions are available. –explains a lot about issues we have with technology analytics.usa.gov | […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-01-09
John Schreiber on Twitter: “Keep hearing of train burglaries in LA on the scanner so went to #LincolnHeights to see it all. And… there’s looted packages as far as the eye can see. Amazon packages, @UPS boxes, unused Covid tests, fishing lures, epi pen This whole thing is crazy . . . including the Twitter […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-01-02
Tech Startup Wants To Gamify Suing People Using Crypto Tokens The new company plans to let everyday Americans bet on civil lawsuits by buying and trading associated crypto tokens in “initial litigation offerings.” The Website Obesity Crisis “This poignant story of two foods touching on a hospital plate could almost have been written by Marcel […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-12-26
SurveillanceU – When Virtual Proctoring Goes Wrong After petitions against virtual proctoring launched across the U.S. and YR’s own coverage of this trend, we built a simulator to show how virtual proctoring can flag normal behavior as suspicious. This isn’t an exact replica of the software, but it’s real close. No worries, this interactive does […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-12-19
Ethereum Emissions This analysis of the energy and emissions of the Ethereum network relies on current and historical data, including: hashrate, hardware overhead and typical worker configurations, datacenter overhead, grid loss, hashing efficiencies, power supply efficiencies, mining hardware mix, worker locations and pool distributions, and international emissions factors. It does not factor in the price […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-12-12
Historic Tale Construction Kit – Bayeux from this twitter post https://twitter.com/profannieoakley/status/1357768408671027202 humanmade/publication-checklist: Run checks and enforce conditions before posts are published. Built and designed for the WordPress block editor. Run checks and enforce conditions before posts are published. Built and designed for the WordPress block editor. A bit about PURLs I guess PURL is the […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-12-05
Remove Custom Taxonomy Metabox from Custom Post Type Screen – WordPress Development Stack Exchange register_taxonomy( ‘your_custom_taxonomy’, array( ‘your_custom_post_type’ ), $args ); $args = array( ‘show_ui’ => true, ‘show_in_quick_edit’ => false, ‘meta_box_cb’ => false, ); jasonsnell/gcal-to-slack: Takes upcoming items from a Google Calendar and posts them to Slack. Might be a model for something down the […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-11-28
Tom Woodward on Twitter: “@NOAADigCoast I was hoping you could tell me who developed the https://t.co/dreFyO5dC6 site. It’s really incredible.” / Twitter A little example of the nice side of social media with NOAA> ENOW How This All Happened · Collaborative Fund If you fell asleep in 1945 and woke up in 2018 you would […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-11-21
Modern PHP Cheat Sheet – Front Line PHP Seeing The Web As it Looks Without Image Alt Text – CogDogBlog How do death rates from COVID-19 differ between people who are vaccinated and those who are not? – Our World in Data […]