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Toot of the Week
[AI enters the room] Artists: Please stop. We love art. Programmers: Please continue. We hate programming. — @olafurw@mastodon.social
Tech
- How To Distort Text With SVG Filters (henry.codes)
Henry Desroches explains how to apply SVG filters to text for cool effects.
- Recommended File Formats for Digital Preservation (library.duke.edu)
Duke University Libraries has file format recommendations for digital preservation in 17 categories, each with three levels.
- A closer look at Acorn, our open source precision farming rover (community.twistedfields.com)
Taylor explains the parts of the open source Garmin robot they're building.
- Lesser Known Techniques for Attacking AWS Environments (tldrsec.com)
Scott Piper explains four less known attacks on AWS resources.
- Rust 2023 (by Yosh) (blog.yoshuawuyts.com)
Yoshua Wuyts reflects upon 2022 for Rust and looks into next year.
- Faster Go code by being mindful of memory (f4t.dev)
Arthur Busser explains how they sped up their Advent of Code puzzle in Go.
Cutting Room Floor
- Why the super rich are inevitable (pudding.cool)
An interactive article that explains the yard sale model with concrete examples.
- Sound (ciechanow.ski)
Bartosz Ciechanowski wrote another one of their incredible interactive articles, this time explaining how sound works.
- Why fusion ignition is being hailed as a major breakthrough in fusion – a nuclear physicist explains (theconversation.com)
Carolyn Kuranz from the University of Michigan explains the recent fusion ignition breakthrough and when we can expect clean fusion energy to power our homes.
- Caught on Camera, Traced by Phone: The Russian Military Unit That Killed Dozens in Bucha (nytimes.com)
An investigation from 8 reporters shows evidence that the Bucha massacre was intentional and which people were part of it.
- Hands On With Flipper Zero, the Hacker Tool Blowing Up on TikTok (wired.com)
Dhruv Mehrotra explains their experience with the Flipper Zero.
