has anyone written a history of spreadsheets?
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has anyone written a history of spreadsheets?
As a taster, you could check out www.bricklin.com/history/sai.... which discusses VisiCalc
Image of handwritten text that reads as follows: Beautiful Soup is just a tool. It isn't good or bad on its own. But I chose to make this tool instead of a different tool. I choose to work on it now instead of doing other things. - - - I can't use "just a tool" as an excuse. If I'm going to feel pride about the good people do with my software, I have to share some responsibility for the bad.
In 2017, author and programmer Leonard Richardson wrote a zine called "Tool Safety" about what he learned from writing Beautiful Soup, one of the most impactful Python libraries ever. I think often about "the best use of the power we have as computer programmers."
www.crummy.com/software/Bea...
As a taster, you could check out www.bricklin.com/history/sai.... which discusses VisiCalc
Knowing in one's bones (1) what you stand for, and (2) that you are already loved, probably goes a long way
Being and feeling rock-solid secure in one's values, as well as feeling emotionally/psychologically safe
Pretty good Mamdani speech on launching the first 2,000 seats of free childcare for 2-year-olds
www.youtube.com/live/J1yv7Dp...
Also, at 25:01, transitioning from the speeches to Q&A, we get about 11 seconds of Tracy Chapman's "Talkin' Bout a Revolution"
What would be the weirdest noodles to use in a pasta salad?
I’ll go first:
Vermicelli
Hello, book people! I am the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and speculative books coming out in the second half of the year! If you have an adult or YA SFF/H book out July-Dec (or publicist), share the link/info here!
Project For A New Inexplicable Century
I enjoy books which contain a bunch of biographies on a single theme: Parallel Lives (Phyllis Rose), Square Hauntings (Francesca Wade), The Husband Hunters (Anne de Courcy). Any suggestions gratefully received, particularly for more modern lives.
I had a similar reaction when I watched it for the first time (within the last couple years)
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Hey, I know various projects have waxed and waned on this front over the years, but are there currently any trackers (or anyone tracking) how close various next gen covid vaccines are to being available to the public?
I decided to stop using Canvas this semester (due to all their shady OpenAI connections and, you know, the fact that they're working to end teaching and learning) so we're doing it all on paper, and a curious effect of that is that I am WAY more caught up on my grading than I used to be
A receipt for a cappuccino. The name field reads “MAN WITH COOL HAT”.
Oh my coffee’s here.
and the most recent Festivids included *two* fun Hamlet fanvids archiveofourown.org/collections/...
Hope this list gives you a few that you enjoy!
"They'll Be Waiting at the Lab" is a "The Good Place" fanvid to "Buzzer" by Dar Williams. archiveofourown.org/works/31906468
"Losing My Mind" is a ST:TNG fanvid about all the stuff Deanna Troi goes through archiveofourown.org/works/34104094
Amazing critique vids by @eruthros.bsky.social , such as archiveofourown.org/works/14793695 "Straightening Up the House: Commemorating more than ten years of queer characters (not) appearing in Marvel films." & archiveofourown.org/works/17687393 "Field Work (Imperial March): It belongs in a museum."
archiveofourown.org/works/11592786 "This Is a Trent Reznor Song" satirizing the ST reboot movies
archiveofourown.org/works/78622921 a phenomenal Steerswoman vid that reuses footage from several sources to construct what feels like the world Kirstein writes bsky.app/profile/sand...
DTWOF: archiveofourown.org/collections/... tags include "Finding Meaning in Oppression" & "A triumphant blow to the alienating corporate forces that are steadily eroding human bonds"
archiveofourown.org/works/37855894 an amazing Star Trek vid album for every song in Kesha's album "Rainbow"
Which is *so good*.
OK, I'm going to besiege you with recommendations now, most found via vidding.dreamwidth.org or recurring vid festivals such as Festivids archiveofourown.org/collections/... and the WisCon Vid Party wiscon-vidparty.dreamwidth.org and VidUKon archiveofourown.org/tags/Vidukon...
Today's fun: A crawler on CourtListener that is hammering certain cases and claiming to be the Googlebot. That's an insta-block!
Seriously though, this is a scourge. I'm tired of playing wack-a-mole defense with these bastards. It's a waste of our resources.
want recommendations?
Hi there folks! We're on the hunt for someone who needs ~10 hours a month of WordPress dev and management support. Drop us an email at studio@clockpunkstudios.com if you or someone you know could use our help!
Hartman’s Law of Brevity: Any statement that starts out “I’ll be brief” will not be.
"I'm not very literate in __" conveys that I haven't read much of the genre—but does so with humility, and makes room for curiosity.
There's plenty of reasons a person might not read something; we can acknowledge a lack of experience without defensiveness or judgement
do you ever think about how q-tips packaging specifically tells you not to do the one thing they know you're buying the product for
Me: What's the best fruit?
Earthling, instantly: Mango. Obviously.
Me: And the worst?
Earthling, a calculating look entering her eyes: I would need to taste every fruit to know for sure.
It's good to have dreams, kiddo.
@finneyflame.bsky.social I posted a long comment www.metafilter.com/212315/avoid... about things I read and appreciated in your story. Thanks again.
Hive minds are almost always portrayed as throwing individuals into the meat grinder for the benefit of the collective
Are there examples of fiction where a hive mind was instead over-exposed to the conditions of its parts? A hive mind that feels the pain of each individual death as crippling?