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JavaScript for beginners: Grasshopper can teach coding

Inside the Linux boot process: Take a guided tour from the Master Boot Record to the first user-space application

Purism Librem 13 review

Thinkpad 420, an excellent, inexpensive Linux laptop. The Carbon X1 also piqued my attention. Here’s a good review, ‘Running Linux on the Lenovo ThinkPad Carbon X1 (5th generation)’.

Tess has been launched.

New GitHub tools for open source maintainers: minimized comments, popular repository namespace retirement, and accidental and “drive-through” pull request prevention.

Site’s linked post format for micro has been updated, truncated links will be shown after the content.

An engineer has found a way repairing roads using waste plastic as binding agent in asphalt. This replaces the conventional bitumen, hoping for a greener solution.

Project Chrono - An Open Source Multi-physics Simulation Engine projectchrono.org

A new algorithm that could add more life to bridges surrey.ac.uk

Two atoms combined in dipolar molecule for the first time, which could lead to more-efficient quantum computing. news.harvard.edu

The thermodynamics of computing ethz.ch

Faced with global warming, aviation aims to turn green phys.org

Facebook said the personal data of most its 2 billion users has been collected and shared with outsiders on a massive global scale. washingtonpost.com

Finding order in disorder demonstrates a new state of matter. lanl.gov

2001: A Space Odyssey celebrates its 50th anniversary with 70mm re-release. businesswire.com

The first 3D-printed steel bridge looks like it broke off an alien mothership. 3D-printing is undeniably the future for the construction industry. gizmodo.com

Cloudflare announced 1.1.1.1, a privacy-first consumer DNS service. I’m glad that online privacy is now getting attention because of the recent Facebook breach. blog.cloudflare.com

RSS has always been here. wired.com