Ire Aderinokun at bitsofcode put together a nice overview of website performance metrics, such as First Contentful Paint (FCP), along with the ideal times for each metric.
Researchers at ETH Zurich have demonstrated a proof of concept solar power hydro-carbon production system which uses mirrors to heat reaction chambers that harvests CO2 and H2O from the air and converts them into liquid fuels like kerosene or methanol. If the technology was scaled up, 3.8 square kilometers of desert filled with these mirror converters could fuel a daily return flight from New York to London.
The Climate Clock shows that on the current emissions trend, we have 10 years before the planet hits +1.5 degrees warming. Net Zero by 2050 is too late.
Nathan Yau over at Flowing Data plotted the IMDB ratings of the longest running TV shows, number one being The Daily Show with 4000 episodes and The Bill with 2402.
Algorithm Wiki is a repository of algorithms categorised by family which came about when scientists at MIT decided to measure how algorithms have improved over time.
The latest edition (25) of the extremely useful Technology Radar is out now. The radar plots a range of the latest tools, platforms, techniques & languages in the categories of Adopt, Trial, Assess & Hold, based on the vast experience of the consultancy company in using them all every day.
With the large amounts of remote working in place now, many proponents of a return to the office talk about missing the spontaneous productivity of casual in person meetings in the office. Seth Godin gives a different view on how remote work allows so much more equitable collaboration and that productivity can and does still happen, it just requires effort.
Yasas Sri Wickramasinghe put together a great list of extremely useful tips and tricks in Chrome Developer Tools that you may not have seen yet, such as the CSS overview tool, and the CSP violation detector.
