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Link: The Best Active Forums

The good humans at Aftermath.site have done the good work to find all of the most lively and vibrant forums across the internet (English language only)

https://aftermath.site/best-active-forums-internet-today

What a treasure!

Public Work by Cosmos

Public Work is a visual search engine for public domain content. Explore 100,000+ copyright-free images from The MET, New York Public Library, and other sources

Source: Public Work by Cosmos

Shade Map: show the shadows

Use this map to see when and where it gets shady!

Helps you identify those pesky valley shadows.

Tixy: visual code golf

https://twitter.com/aemkei/status/1323399877611708416

One Tenth of a Second 

The basic thesis is that between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period of time — 0.1s — acquired a weirdly powerful role at the heart of science, and indirectly, in the shaping of all modernity.

The tldr of the book might even be: the failure to come to terms with the 0.1s limit in human cognition gave birth to modernity, with all its inherent tensions, via a set of parallel crises.

Source: One Tenth of a Second – by Venkatesh Rao

Dan Coe Carto – 4K Rivers

An ongoing series of vibrant river and delta images from North America and other parts of the world. The images are constructed using high-resolution elevation data. To learn more about the rivers and to download the 4K-resolution versions, use the links at the bottom of the page.

Source: Dan Coe Carto – 4K Rivers

Office Upgrades

Next Level Desk

Next Level Accessories For Home, Office & EDC. Minimalist + Function. Designed & Crafted to Last. Handmade in Portland, USA. Elevate Your Work Now!

Source: Grovemade

Sigil Generator

150,000 Botanical and Animal Illustrations Available for Free Download from Biodiversity Heritage Library

Colossal | Art, design, and visual culture
— Read on www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/01/biodiversity-heritage-library-free-download/

Action Mailbox and Mandrill: How to get them to play nice

Turns out, if you want to setup a new inbound email from Mandrill, you need to first set your ingress api token to “test-webhook”, and have the url working at the production url.

Once you’ve set it up, you have to then go into the mandrill dashboard, find the “web hooks” section, then find your new web hook and update the ingress api token to match the one listed and redeploy.

Fun.


2020 Update: I contributed to rails! You no longer need to do this song and dance to get things to work. It *should* just be instamagic.

Ernst Haeckel- Protists

Source: Ernst Haeckel- Protists | Graphicine

How to run a small social network site for your friends

This document exists to lay out some general principles of running a small social network site that have worked for me. These principles are related to community building more than they are related to specific technologies.

Source: How to run a small social network site for your friends

M1 Messenger – SDR Traveller

An ultralight, all-weather EDC. Made from Expedition Grade Dyneema® for exquisite performance, with features stripped down to the bare essentials.

Source: M1 Messenger – SDR Traveller

An introduction to Wardley (Value Chain) Mapping

Bits or pieces?: An introduction to Wardley (Value Chain) Mapping
— Read on blog.gardeviance.org/2015/02/an-introduction-to-wardley-value-chain.html

Trash Plastic

How to live better with less plastic. Simple tips, swaps, and plastic-free alternatives for everything in your home.

Source: Trash Plastic

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