Newsletter - October 20th 2024
My newsletters are a handful of articles I’ve read that I think are interesting enough to share. Enjoy!
XOXO Talk - Molly White
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTaeVVAvk-c
A call to arms from the ever brilliant Molly White.
The Static Site Paradox - Loris Cro
https://kristoff.it/blog/static-site-paradox/
The fast, modern web is only available to the tech-savvy. Everyone else is stuck with Wix or Wordpress. We’ve built a two-tiered web where it’s very difficult for your average user to learn basic html and get a creative, fun personal site up. Loris Cro examines why this is.
The British Pathe Archive - Jason Kottke
https://kottke.org/14/04/the-british-pathe-archive
An old post, but one I only came across recently. Ten years ago, British Pathe uploaded their entire 85,000 film archive to YouTube.
Biological Scaling Laws - David Meyer
https://mathstodon.xyz/@dmm/113266196321649852
One of the things I love about Mastodon is that it’s a constant firehose of interesting things in bitesize form. I came across this post by David Meyer about how nature scales itself.
Summer Eternal
The art collective and game studio Summer Eternal rises from the ashes of ZA/UM, the makers of Disco Elysium. Let’s hope they get back to making best-in-class RPGs without the dodgy executives. The manifesto makes it clear that’s what they want.
The ABCD Family Tree - Starkey Comics
https://starkeycomics.com/2018/12/11/the-abcd-family-tree/
An infographic showing the relationship between different scripts used in languages across the world and how they all evolved from Eygptian Hieroglyphs. Everything on the Starkey Comics site is interesting, this is just one post.
Embedded Rust in Production ..? - Michael Lohr
https://blog.lohr.dev/embedded-rust
A great write-up of a real-world embedded Rust. Not something I’ve ever worked on but I love reading these kind of pros and cons posts from people who have actually built something meaningful.