Shifting baselines David Roberts writes about how shifting baselines form a generational amnesia, which makes it possible for climate change’s effects to hit us and not spur us to action.

ACT and SAT during coronavirus CNN reports that 2 students tested positive for COVID-19 a day after taking the ACT. The ACT and SAT have been on my mind because I have a child at the right age for those tests (who was, in fact, scheduled to take the test in April). I don’t see how we can safely have kids in a room …

Audiomass is an online audio editor AudioMass is another example of how much more capable the web has become in recent years, allowing you to edit audio files without installing something on your local computer.

3D Book Image CSS Nifty Publishing tool: a 3d book cover image generator that uses CSS rather than generating images! This is really cool, because you don’t need to make a separate image file for each book.

Chirr for posting to Twitter Chirr is a webapp for posting to Twitter more conveniently. Specifically, it deals with the pain of creating threads by allowing you to edit the whole thread at once and have the app resplit as needed.

Backlinks 2020-07-16 Chirr is a webapp for posting to Twitter more conveniently. Specifically, it deals with the pain of creating threads by allowing you to edit the whole thread at once and have the app resplit as needed.

Twitch live coding setup Jordan Lewis provided a detailed look at his Twitch streaming setup. This particular setup is useful to look at for me because it’s Mac-based, uses OBS (something I’ve never tried), and also even includes an iPad for whiteboarding.

Cakes everywhere This is definitely a moment in time. Twitter is aflutter with cakes. But first, bagels cut the wrong way and, in reply, a pumpkin pie cut even wronger. Tasty’s viral cake video that started it all and more Viral Memes Notado I’ve essentially been bookmarking here, and I’ve also been a …

hnrss gives you feeds for Hacker News Hacker News has a lot of links roll through. I generally visit the home page a couple of times a day to keep up. hnrss provides a useful assortment of RSS feeds for HN. I’m going to try the frontpage feed. I saw a suggestion for https://hnrss.org/newest?points=10 which will …

Backlinks 2020-07-09 Hacker News has a lot of links roll through. I generally visit the home page a couple of times a day to keep up. hnrss provides a useful assortment of RSS feeds for HN. I’m going to try the frontpage feed. I saw a suggestion for https://hnrss.org/newest?points=10 which will catch a bunch of …