Category: English
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The magician’s assistant, by Ann Patchett
Review of Ann Patchett’s book, the Reading Club assignment for January 2019.
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Forest Dark, by Nicole Krauss
Review of Nicole Krauss’ book, the Reading Club assignment for January 2019.
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They came like swallows, by William Maxwell
A review of William Maxwell’s book, the Reading Club assignment for November 2018.
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The girl on the train, by Paula Hawkins
Review of Paula Hawkins’ book, the Reading Club assignment for June 2018.
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Scratch Map Summer 2018
After some epic trips in the past years, this is what our scratch map looks like by the end of 2018 Summer. Antarctica is in our todo list.
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Summer solstice
Depending on how you think about seasons, the summer’s solstice is the beginning of the summer or the middle of it – in either case, enjoy.
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Hallo Berlin!
Hallo Berlin! 🇩🇪 I’m in the city to attend this week CSS and JS conferences. The line-up is fantastic, and I look forward to meeting all the folks there.
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The kite runner, by Khaled Hosseini
Review of Khaled Hosseini’s book, the Reading Club assignment for May 2018.
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On JavaScript modules
A brief history of JavaScript modularity and why ESModules are the future. Includes a technique to make CommonJS modules work in browsers.
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The luxury of a desktop app
These apps are just little icons on my desktop bar. I don’t even have Bluetooth enabled. The amount of memory they consume is a luxury.
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Seamless offline docs
This combination of Zeal and Atom (with the dash package) seems to just work, and help you set up a seamless offline docs experience.
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Tempestades de sal, Sés
Sés is a Galician singersongwriter. Her stage presence and lyrics reminds me of what it means to grow in small villages by the periphery. I feel connected to that dignity and survival skills, because it embodies the attitude of the women I grew around. The Galician matriachy.
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UKL passed away
I’ve just learned that Ursula K. Le Guin is no longer with us. She left multiple worlds for us to play with and learn from. Two of them –The Left Hand of Darkness, and The Dispossessed– are my goto guides when it comes to imagining societies that take into account the role of self-management, genre,…
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JavaScript in use 2011-2017
According to the HTTP Archive, the top 1.000 websites download 5 times more JavaScript today than seven years ago – HTML grew 2x and CSS 3x. Combining that with the fact that the mobile web is more present than ever, the result is that the main bottleneck for the websites we create and consume is the CPU.
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Input lag: 1977-2017
Input lag: 1977-2017 is an essay about the time it takes several computers to display a character from a keypress. A lot of newer computers take 3 to 5 times more than 30 to 40 years old computers.