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from the fan-participation-in-culture dept Walled Culture has written a number of times about the true fans approach – the idea that creators can be supported directly and effectively by the people who love their work. As Walled Culture the book explains (available as a free ebook), one of the earliest and best expositions of the concept came […]
This offer is available from Amazon as a “limited time deal”. Again, it’s a record-low price we’ve never seen before, and the sale has a limited availability. As of the time of writing, 11% of the available units have been claimed. Again, the Garmin inReach Messenger Handheld Satellite Communicator has never been as affordable as […]
After a rudderless year and an exodus of around 4,000 employees due to Trump administration cuts, NASA got what may be its first piece of good news recently. On December 17, the Senate confirmed billionaire Jared Isaacman as the agency’s new administrator. He now holds the power to rehabilitate a battered engine of scientific research, […]
Water reclaimed at the factory’s sewage treatment plant is used in the facility’s restrooms.ZAKIR HOSSAIN CHOWDHURY It’s a good start, but Bangladesh’s $40 billion garment industry still has a long way to go. The shift to environmentalism at the factory level hasn’t translated to improved outcomes for the sector’s 4.4 million workers. Wage theft and […]
Dec 29, 2026Ravie LakshmananHacking News / Cybersecurity Last week’s cyber news in 2025 was not about one big incident. It was about many small cracks opening at the same time. Tools people trust every day behave in unexpected ways. Old flaws resurfaced. New ones were used almost immediately. A common theme ran through it all […]
From Adam, prototyped in Chrome Canary 145: h1 { text-grow: per-line scale; } Danny discussed this a while back when looking at different approaches for fitting text to a container, spelling out the syntax (text-shrink included) that you can find in Roma Komarov’s explainer: text-grow: ? ?; text-shrink: ? ?; per-line: For text-grow, lines of text […]
Wolf escapes enclosure at Tokyo Zoo, visitors flee Anadolu Agency Those Curious Naturalists Wild Information I No Longer Think GLP-1s Are the Answer MedPage Today French cinema legend Brigitte Bardot dies at 91 France24 Climate/Environment ‘Ghost resorts’: as hundreds of ski slopes lie abandoned, will nature reclaim the Alps? The Guardian ‘When you plant something, […]
Get Data Lakehouse Books: Lakehouse Community: The open lakehouse is no longer a concept. In 2025, key Apache projects matured, making data warehouse performance on object storage a practical reality. This post walks through the most critical developments in four of those projects: Iceberg, Polaris, Parquet, and Arrow. Each is building a critical layer for […]
[Ed. note: While we take some time to rest up over the holidays and prepare for next year, we are re-publishing our top ten posts for the year. Please enjoy our favorite work this year and we’ll see you in 2026.] The Stack Overflow Developer Survey is full of new insights about technology, tools of […]
There is what looks like another maddening design fail, with the Switch’s left shoulder buttons, L and ZL, positioned on the right of the Mini Arcade Pro’s eight-button layout, with the right-hand R and ZR buttons to their left. However, this is actually a trick borrowed from other console arcade sticks, and it works surprisingly […]
