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Friday, December 4, 2020

In This Edition:
COVID safe Christmas, 52 things learned in 2020, measuring Mt Everest, using prefers-reduced-data, accessible data picker, and thoughts about reading!

Researchers at the CRAC atmospheric chemistry research lab in UCC created this useful graphic with tips on how to be COVID safe at home during Christmas.

52 Things Learned In 2020

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Tom Whitwell is back with another 52 fascinating facts that he learned in 2020, including a fully dressed man of the 20th century wore 78 buttons, and the Chinese have term that translates roughly to "Revenge bedtime procrastination".

Podcast of the Week: NPR Shortwave on Measuring Everest

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NPR Shortwave have a very informative episode about the difficulties in accurately measuing the height of Mount Everest. It turns out there are quiet a few caveats that need to be accounted for.

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Using prefers-reduced-data

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The Polypane blog posted a great how to article on using the new prefers-reduced-data media query when creating websites. Support for the new prefers-reduced-data is on the way in browsers, and it let web developers specify lower size resources and omre efficient methods of operation for users with lower bandwidths.

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Accessible Datepicker

Image: Tommy Feldt

Tommy Feldt has created an accesible data picker which also accepts natural language specification for dates, such as "tomorrow" or "in 5 days".

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Thoughts About Reading

Image: Ivaylo Durmonski

Ivaylo Durmonski shares some fascinating insights he has discovered having read 100 books. He talks about how his relationship with books and reasons for reading have changed, and how to get the most of out reading.

About Found This Week

Found This Week is a curated blog of interesting posts, articles, links and stories in the world of technology, science and life in general.
Each edition is curated by Daryl Feehely every Friday and highlights cool stuff found each week.
The first 104 editions were published on Medium before this site was created, check out the archive here.

Daryl Feehely

I’m a web consultant, contract web developer, technical project manager & photographer originally from Cork, now based in London. I offer my clients strategy, planning & technical delivery services, remotely & in person. I also offer freelance CTO services to companies in need of technical bootstrapping or reinvention. If you think I can help you in your business, check out my details on http://darylfeehely.com

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