🔥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Key idea: I grew up learning to program in the late 1980s / early 1990s. Back then, I did not fully comprehend what I was doing and why the tools I used were impressive given the constraints of the hardware we had. Having gained more knowledge throughout the years, it is now really fun to pick up DOSBox to re-experience those programs and compare them with our current state of affairs.This time around, I want to look at the pure text-based IDEs that we had in that era…
🚀 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Pierre-Auguste Renoir,Exhibitions,Drawing,Sculpture,Art,Art and design,Culture,New York,Museums 📌 Main takeaway: HLuminous colors and sensual brushwork adorn countless mugs, stickers, tote bags as well as popular exhibits. But the commodification of Pierre-Auguste Renoir and his fellow Impressionist painters is missing something.Renoir was an accomplished painter who produced a distinctive but largely unknown body of drawings, pastels, watercolors, and prints.More than a hundred of these works are now on display in a new exhibition, “Renoir’s Drawings,” at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York. This exhibition traces the entire…
✨ Discover this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 Category: Culture,Culture / Movies,Culture Guides ✅ Key idea: In Recent years, Netflix and Apple TV+ have been duking it out to have the most prestigious film offerings, but some of the best movies are on Amazon Prime Video. The streamer was one of the first to go around picking up film festival darlings and other lovable favorites, and those movies are all still there in the library, so if they flew under your radar the first time, now is the perfect time to catch up.Our picks for the best movies on…
✨ Discover this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: With the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies a three-hour drive away, Nashville's sports culture tends to revolve around American football and ice hockey. The city is home to the Tennessee Titans and the NHL's Nashville Predators, which Surridge enjoys watching. “It's very intense,” he explained after participating in several matches. “The way they play, they're a different type of human being — these big guys who are going to crush each other.”But, thanks to their success in the US Open Cup, Surridge says Nashville has also…
🔥 Explore this must-read post from Business News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Main takeaway: Trading cards for the game "Magic" are located in the store where the "Magic" tournament is held.Frank Rumpenhorst | Image Alliance | Getty ImagesWith screen time on the rise and technology racing ahead, the low-tech hobby is back in a big way: collecting trading cards.Cards depicting everything from iconic NFL characters to Pokémon and even Taylor Swift are one of the hottest toy categories in stores this year. Major retailers are stocking up ahead of the holidays, anticipating that demand will extend beyond traditional toy buyers…
🚀 Explore this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Main takeaway: Linfield manager David Healy told BBC Sport NI he "almost booed himself" after watching his side's "unacceptable" performance in their 2-0 defeat to Portadown at Shamrock Park on Friday night.Second-half goals from Paris Altintop and James Thielan secured an impressive victory for Niall Currie's side and condemned the champions to their second away defeat of the season."Really disappointing. Our performance levels were nowhere near the levels expected," Healey said.“That's why we lost. Our behavior was wrong, which is even more disappointing, because I thought we had…
✨ Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Main takeaway: Bézier curves are a core building block of text and 2D shapes rendering. There are several approaches to rendering them, but one especially challenging problem, both mathematically and technically, is computing the distance to a Bézier curve. For quadratic curves (one control point), this is fairly accessible, but for cubic (two control points) we're going to see why it is so hard. A glyph from the Virgil font, composed of multiple Bézier curves Having this distance field opens up many rendering possibilities. It's hard, but it's…
💥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Books,Black British culture,Literary festivals,Publishing,Culture 📌 Key idea: HeyOn Sunday morning, the expansive concrete foyer of the Barbican Hotel will replace its usual tranquility with a buzz of conversation, excitement, and a certain kind of cultural energy: black British storytelling in all its multiplicity.Now, in its fifth year, the Black British Book Festival (BBBF) is Europe's largest celebration of black literature. What started as a small, intimate gathering has evolved into a national institution attracting thousands of attendees and some of the biggest names in publishing.The festival, which…
💥 Check out this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 Category: Gear,Gear / Reviews,Gear / Products / Health and Fitness,Product Review 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: The four Eco modes can be of some help here, but the best in my experience is the default Comfort mode, which “reduces the harshness of high-frequency sounds and overall intensity, creating a more comfortable and balanced listening experience.” The AtomPhoto: Chris NollI immediately noticed that the hiss level was much lower on the Atom By emitting low frequencies that didn't need amplification, I found that I often heard worse sound with the hearing…
🔥 Discover this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Key idea: Cummins was ruled out of Australia's limited-overs series against New Zealand and India last month after scans revealed a lumbar bone strain in his back.He has a history of back injuries, with injuries in 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2015-16 causing him to miss three summers in Australia in four years.He said he would be "aggressive" and "risk" his recovery in order to play in the Ashes.Bailey said he did not know if Cummins had taken up bowling as part of his rehabilitation but it was "getting tough"…
