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  • Breakthrough of Digital Culture: Finland accepts Demoscene application

    Breakthrough of Digital Culture: Finland accepts the Demoscene on its national UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity.

    “Demoskene is an international community focused on demos, programming, graphics and sound creatively real-time audiovisual performances. [..] Subculture is an empowering and important part of identity for its members.”

    Source: Demoscene – The Art of Coding

  • GitHub is now free for all teams

    Github is on a spree to get hold of the entire developer ecosystem. Offering the service for free to all teams, it’s difficult for any development team to ignore the Microsoft based platform.

    GitHub today announced that all of its core features are now available for free to all users, including those that are currently on free accounts. That means free unlimited private repositories with unlimited collaborators for all, including teams that use the service for commercial projects, as well as up to 2,000 minutes per month of […]

    Techcrunch

    via: TechCrunch

  • Relative Importance In 2020

    This chart lays out the relative importance of certain things in our lives in 2020 from January to April. Some may shock you…haha

    via Accidental Fire

  • The KI wins

    The Servo to let the KI win
    The Servo playing the Dinosaur

    The KI wins: A servo and a sensor for the win. There are no fields that are not eaten by software. Now even a computer plays the Offline Dinosaur in Google’s Chrome.

    https://twitter.com/null4bl3/status/1247032404990210053
    The KI wins

  • Github acquires npm

    The article mentions the benefit for developers and the ecosystem. I’d rather be curious to understand the drivers that led to the M&A decision on the buying side.

  • CloudFront and Lambda at the Edge

    AWS OfficeHours with Woodrow Arrington and David Brown, both Senior Product Managers on the AWS CloudFront Team. They discuss the benefits of CDN technology and use-cases of Lambda@Edge. The video touches security related considerations.

  • Implementing feedback into our work culture

    Healthy organizations are places in which feedback is encouraged, even if it’s about issues that are not easy to hear. How does this work?

    Source: Implementing feedback into our work culture

  • Tintenfass

    Tintenfass: Mit dem Vorsatz, in Zukunft wieder mehr mit der Hand zu schreiben ist mir ein ein praktisches Problem entstanden. Der Füller ist entweder leer oder trocken. Zumal im Büro. Die Lösung ist einfach (affiliate link). Auf jeden Schreibtisch des mobilen Arbeitens ein Tintenfass. Das richtig mobile Arbeiten jenseits der drei Schreibtische ist damit nicht möglich. Außer ich beschließe noch irgendwann ein Tintenfass mitzunehmen. Aber damit hätte ich Sorge, mir irgendwann die Tasche und alle Klamotten zu versauen.

    Tintenfass
    Tintenfass

    daily, 02.03.2020, Update: actually late again.

  • Incredible Machines

    Incredible Machines: Grade kam mir Werbung für Makeway in die Timeline gespült. Das Produkt ist eine Murmelbahn als Bausatz. Durch das Video fühle mich ich sehr an Rube Goldberg Maschinen erinnert, obwohl das Prinzip hier viel einfacher ist.

    Trotzdem muss ich dem Drang, hier Geld einzuwerfen, gerade sehr widerstehen. Vor allem deshalb, weil ich dann auch einen größeren Kühlschrank anschaffen muss.

    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/makeway/makeway-create-intricate-courses-watch-your-marbles-soar