🚀 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: If you are of a certain age, the words 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE will do something to you that no amount of therapy can undo. You remember the blue screen. You remember typing in three pages of a listing from a magazine, getting ?SYNTAX ERROR IN 2340, and not knowing which of the three pages contained the typo. You remember that the disk drive was device 8, and that you had time to go make a cup of tea before it would finish loading.All of…
🔥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Jazz,Music,Festivals,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: FOr one weekend in July every year, the massive warehouse complex in the coastal city of Rotterdam becomes home to the biggest names in jazz. Under the banner of the North Sea Jazz Festival, this windowless space has hosted performances from the likes of Miles Davis, free jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman, singer Etta James, saxophonist Wayne Shorter and even Prince.Etta James. Photography: Paul Bergen“We've had all the major figures in jazz playing over the last five decades,” says Sander Grande, senior program…
🔥 Explore this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Buying Guides,Gear / Products / Phones,Overseas Call ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Other Good International PhonesThese phones are worth considering if you have yet to see something you like.Photograph: Simon HillOppo Find N6 for $1,959: Touting a creaseless 8.12-inch display, the Find N6 is a beautifully engineered folding phone that’s impossibly slim and light. Despite the promise, the crease is still discernible, but you’ll hardly notice it when the screen is on, though you’ll feel it if you use the optional stylus. Performance is impressively slick, with enough stamina…
🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I recently finished a book by Steven Pressfield, 36 Righteous Men. Pressfield is one of my favorite fiction authors; if you haven't read Gates of Fire you don't know what you're missing. With that said, 36 Righteous Men wasn't my favorite Pressfield work. When I read a line about a character "flicking the safety off" her Glock I cringed†. I realized this wasn't the first book in recent memory with such a slip-up. Here are some common gun mistakes in fiction, as well as how…
💥 Read this insightful post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Gear News and Events,Gear / Products,Price Hike ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: If you are in In the market for anything with a memory stick, this might be a good time to disable it.It looks like another round of consumer electronics price increases is underway. In June, Apple announced price increases for MacBooks and iPads. Xbox consoles also became more expensive starting in August. This comes on the heels of already high prices for products like Sony's PlayStation 5 Pro and, you know, oil, pushing up gas prices and…
💥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Wordgard [wɜrd-gɑrd] noun A garden for cultivating words. Open-source JavaScript library implementing an in-browser rich-text editor. Semantic Rich Text Editor System Wordgard provides a set of tools for building content editors. It is not a free-form HTML editor, but one where you control precisely what kind of content you support. Its main distinguishing feature is a powerful programming interface that makes the library a good foundation for customized editors—even complex, demanding ones. Wordgard is open source under a permissive license (MIT). It is being developed…
🔥 Check out this awesome post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Buying Guides,Gear / Products / Outdoor,Wild and Free 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Less is less, Don't let anyone convince you otherwise. This is especially true when you're carrying everything you need to live for a week on your back, which brings us to the backpack quilt: It's a sleeping bag, but less. In many cases, a backpack quilt is all you need, and I've liked it better than sleeping bags for all but the coldest trips.These quilts are not like the ones your grandmother gave you. Backpack…
✨ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The FounderA freshly minted founder decides to get into the oven business. He can’t bake a cake or knead bread, but he knows the kitchen appliance market inside and out. He’s analyzed every business in Spain and reached a conclusion: if he sells a new oven to the country’s pizza makers, pastry chefs, and bakers, he only needs to capture 10% of the market to become a billionaire.10% always looks small when you type it into an Excel spreadsheet.The founder is very good. He…
🚀 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Science fiction and fantasy films,Will Smith,Jeff Goldblum,Culture,Film,Action and adventure films ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The architects of cinema’s most popular alien invasion have slightly differing accounts of how exactly the original plans for Independence Day came to them. But they both agree that it began with the now-famous image of a massive spaceship looming over a city skyline.Roland Emmerich, the director, recalls explaining the scope of the concept to Dean Devlin, the co-writer and producer, at the latter’s home: “He lived in an area on a…
✨ Discover this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Culture / TV,Streaming Guides 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The good news, of course, is that there are 43 seasons of the classic series to keep you busy until a new plan is confirmed: the original 26 seasons are on BritBox and Tubi, while the two Gatwa seasons will remain on Disney+, where they originated (in the US). But as of June 11, the first thirteen seasons of Modern Era, also known as NuWho, have found a new home on AMC+. There, fan-favorite Doctors Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant, Matt Smith, Peter…