Newsworthy
- The man who built Ikea has died – Press F to pay respects
- How a malicious seed generation website stole $4 million – Can’t trust an anonymous entity to not store information and then steal all of your crypto. The worst things that happen with any cryptocurrency is when it is CENTRALIZED. A lot of work went into this post and it is a great read.
- Coalfire Establishes Labs Research and Development Team to Drive Industry Advancements in Cyber Security – Open source projects like this mean that we all win.
- Washington Bill Would Make it Illegal to Sell Electronics That Don’t Have Easily Replaceable Batteries – The “right to repair” is an interesting concept but I don’t know if a bill like this would be pushing it in the correct direction.
- 2nd teen in ‘Slenderman’ stabbing gets 40 years in mental institution – Interesting finale
- Stem Cell Fillings Trigger Teeth To Repair Themselves, Research Study Claims– Large if Factual
Videos
- A Boy Ate 3 Laundry Pods. This Is What Happened To His Lungs. – I really enjoy the way these videos are done. Heavily researched and presenting information in a very enjoyable way.
- How To Make Your Own Subway Sandwich – Comedy video lambasting the way that Subway sandwiches are made. The way that they are able to extract any love put into the sandwich making procedure has always fascinated me.
- What Would Happen If You Replace All Drinks with Water? – Stay Hydrated.
- Life Hacks Are Only Getting Worse – Good video of the absolute state of lifehacks
- How Horse Sounds are Made for Movies – Neat idea on practical audio effects
Worth a Read
- n-gate.com – excellent blog with a really entertaining perspective on tech.
- How to Be a Lawyer Without Going to Law School – Professional Law as a Professional Trade via apprenticeship
- Self-Crashing Cars With apologies to Elon Musk – Ponders the idea that if we go through with autonomous networked cars, when they are hacked they can be used as weapons of mass destruction. The author wrote a tl;dr on twitter that summarizes the article quite well
Tools that I am testing
- Inoreader – Better version of Feedly from what I can tell,
- Letterboxd – Keep track of the films you consume, might just create a blog post / page and update it manually as for a paid site the main feature is curation that you can get for free