Your App Should Have Been A Website (And Probably Your Game Too): Modern web browsers are powerful and capable.

“Efficientize” is not a real word but even so: never ever efficientize the things you like doing

The beautiful sentence that is the web: ‘In web development, HTML is the noun, CSS is the adjective that describes the noun, and JavaScript is the verb that makes it do something.’

World endures ‘decade of deadly heat’ as 2024 caps hottest years on record: ‘The top 10 hottest years on record have happened in the last 10 years’.

Quitting social media gave me a new creed: only disconnect: ‘…our virtual selves are not our inner selves, but behaviours drawn out from us by the social media platforms’.

Is Immersion the Best Way to Learn a Language?: It’s helpful, but only if you proactively engage with it.

2024’s most costly climate disasters killed 2,000 people and caused $229bn in damages, data shows

Scientist’s ‘ruthlessly imaginative’ 1925 predictions for the future come true – mostly: How much did Prof Archibald Montgomery Low get right?

Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates: Apparently it’s easier to rewrite science that get Excel to stop auto-converting “MARCH1” into a date.

Scrabble, Anonymous: The life of a Scrabble addict.

I’m Tired of Pretending Physical Media Isn’t Still Better Than Streaming Digital: I’m too clutter-phobic to indulge in much physical media, but its hard to deny you tend to get a higher quality and less annoying experience if you do.

Revealed: 1.5m children in England studying in unfit school buildings: Years of insufficient budgets mean that buildings used for services like education, health and justice in the UK are literally crumbling.

Todayspaper | The Guardian: Some of the stories that make up the physical version of the Guardian newspaper, updated each day the paper comes out.

Joyful, joyful: The tradition of door-to-door carolling does sound extremely weird when put like this.

‘Wild west’: experts concerned by illegal promotion of weight-loss jabs in UK: Companies are effectively flouting the ban on marketing prescription drugs direct to the public.

Older music has been getting a second life on TikTok, data shows: An increasing amount of TikTok videos use music that’s at least 5 years old.

Indian Ocean tsunami: how survivors found love after Boxing Day disaster: Life in Indonesia, 20 years later.

Scientists Quantified The Speed of Human Thought, And It’s a Big Surprise: Apparently our brains process information at the minuscule rate of 10 bits per second - to be fair I regularly feel like a 1970s computer could best me.

AdGuard Mail — a new AdGuard product to protect your email: AdGuard enters into the cadre of services like SimpleLogin and Addy by offering a product designed to keep your email private.

Just 2% of some key trains on London to Manchester line run on time: The worst offender being the 8:53am from London Euston to Manchester Piccadilly.

£100m spent in England on failed efforts to block children’s Send support: Only 1.2% of council’s decisions to refuse to provide special educational funding for children are supported by courts when appealed.

making a website is hard: cathode ray dude bemoans the lack of a modern Microsoft Frontpage or Dreamweaver equivalent.

Welcome to Britain’s Victorian Christmas, where volunteers in Santa hats fulfil the basic functions of the state: A decent country would not rely on the whims of charitable donations to meet the basic human needs of its population.

Photographs reveal first glimpse of uncontacted Amazon community: Photos of the Massaco emerge - one of 60+ Amazonian communities who have no contact with the outside world.

Proud to be a blockhead: Doctorow covers several important concepts, including that of vocational awe: ‘People make art because it matters to them, and this trait makes workers terribly exploitable’.