How to make a blockbuster movie trailer I saw this a couple of weeks ago and really should have linked to it then. Auralnauts shows us How to make a blockbuster movie trailer, and it’s epic. Trump wanted to downplay coronavirus In early February, Trump knew the dangers of COVID-19 and in March, he said he always …

Save The Food Via Recomendo, Save The Food is a site that offers Recipes, food storage tips, and more to help avoid food waste.

Arwes sci-fi/cyberpunk framework Arwes is a React-based set of components and sounds to create sci-fi-like user interfaces.

mmhmm video calling fanciness Presenting live on the internet has been a big deal for a while and is, of course, an even bigger deal during the pandemic. mmhmm is an amazing-looking app (currently in beta) that gives you virtual backgrounds plus slides that you can put up behind you. Plus, you can move yourself around …

RSSHub lets you get a feed from anything RSSHub is a feed aggregator with a large number of available sources. Redditvids Think YouTube could use some competition in the discover-new-videos space? Redditvids is an entirely client-side app that provides a UI for browsing videos on Reddit.

ROBLOX is a MUD Felipe Pepe has written a detailed look at MUDs through history and it’s awesome. These games have had quite a run. Wage theft and prisons Dave McKenna wrote this excellent Twitter thread about how much of crime isn’t punished in the same way we punish lower-impact crime. Wage theft happens …

Ent is a graph-based ORM for Go Ent provides a graph-based ORM for Go, which can seem a little strange given that relational databases do provide relations, but not necessarily graphs. Regardless, it looks nice on the surface (as a lot of ORMs do), and seems like it would pair well with GraphQL. This originated with …

Why write ADRs? Over on the GitHub blog, there’s a post by Eli Perkins called Why Write ADRs. ADRs provide documentation for Architecture changes, and I think they are enormously useful. At Khan Academy, we’ve been using ADRs since the middle of 2017. Our implementation of ADRs combines the document with …

Free vector animations Pixeltrue offers a useful set of Art Resources with a set of vector animations (both free and paid).

Surface transmission of the coronavirus seems rare An article in The Atlantic complains about hygiene theater and the fact that it pulls attention and effort away from the meaningful actions against COVID-19. Something important in the article, though, is a note on research showing how rare fomite (surface) …