The 512KB Club is a collection of performance-focused web pages from across the Internet.

To qualify your website must satisfy both of the following requirements: It must be an actual site that contains a reasonable amount of information, not just a couple of links on a page; Your total UNCOMPRESSED web resources must not exceed 512KB

Captain Obvious Strikes

A "Keep Android Open" campaign is pushing back on new rules from Google that will reportedly block users from sideloading apps on Android phones

study from the Complexity Science Hub Vienna finds that as people's close social circles expanded from two to five friends around the rise of social media (2008-2010), polarization in society spiked

In my mind, "Apple" as a brand used to be synonymous with "attention to detail" but sadly, over the course of the last 8 - 10 years, their choices have become anything but detail oriented.

This year, things have gotten so bad that I'm starting to think they've stopped caring about user experience, accessibility, and detailed QA tests altogether.

study reveals that foreign suspects are mentioned three times more in German media than their actual share in police statistics, influencing public perception of crime and migration

patterns that arise in origami can be translated into a set of points that together form the amplituhedron

Tim Berners-Lee writes in a new article in the Guardian that "Somewhere between my original vision for web 1.0 and the rise of social media as part of web 2.0, we took the wrong path

The seventh edition of the report, which has been published every five years since 1995, found:

More than 80% of protected habitats are in a poor or bad state, with “unsustainable” consumption and production patterns driving loss of wildlife.

The EU’s “carbon sink” has declined by about 30% in a decade as logging, wildfires and pests damage forests.

Emissions from transport and food have barely budged since 2005, despite progress in other sectors.

Member states have failed to adapt to extreme weather as fast as risk levels have risen.

Water stress already affects one in three Europeans and will worsen as the climate changes.

Music
The Albums That Shaped Dubstep’s First Decade

From Burial to Skream, discover the records that built a genre

When designing software systems, do the simplest thing that could possibly work

The Swiss lived in splendid isolation for years. Tariffs have shattered that complacency

The software rights of users are continously (and often opaquely) being eroded by the desire of growth.
This website aims to push back against that by bringing transparency to FOSS software users

A debate has erupted in Denmark over the fate of a mermaid statue that is to be removed from public view after being decried as “ugly and pornographic” and “a man’s hot dream of what a woman should look like”

it's now estimated that the world is now installing one gigawatt worth of solar energy infrastructure every 15 hours — or about the output of a new coal plant

what??

huh, man

The "Grandma Exploit"

Plunging value and a content cliff edge: what’s gone wrong at Sky? Since Comcast takeover, broadcaster has slashed jobs and is losing the exclusive shows that drew subscribers

Curious about the current status of your beloved programming languages, frameworks, or tools?

I built a tool that assigns a "Deaditude Score" to various technologies, utilizing data from GitHub activity, Stack Overflow trends, Job offer, Reddit discussions and other sources