The bags were developed as an alternative to paper bags, which were considered bad for the environment because they resulted in forests being chopped down.

They were significantly stronger than paper bags, which meant – in theory – they could be used over and over again.

However, single-use plastic took off and now our consumption of this polluting material is one of the biggest threats facing the world’s seas, with marine plastic set to outweigh fish by 2050.

Raoul Thulin, son of Sten, told the BBC: “To my dad, the idea that people would simply throw these away would be bizarre. He always carried [a plastic bag] in his pocket folded up. You know what we’re all being encouraged to do today, which is to take your bags back to the shop, he was doing back in the Seventies and Eighties, just naturally, because, well, why wouldn’t you?”

you don’t have to sign your kids up to do expensive things in order for them to reach their full potential

We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.

ПИ«придумала» Кляйн, которая занималась«детским» психоанализом, и вот эти все«магические» штуки — это способы, с помощью которых дети, которые еще не умеют говорить, общаются с матерью. А потом это становятся способами, с помощью которых взрослые люди, которые не могут говорить,«общаются» с другими людьми.

A story of a Julius who lacks knowledge but has good charisma. There's a lot to learn from such Julii.

In many other languages, you have to not only evaluate testing libraries, but also write your tests in a style that complies with that library’s expectations. Gophers are blessed to have a thoroughly adequate solution out-of-the-box, and even further blessed to have an active ecosystem where folks are making in-depth testing a walk in the park.

A source-control branching model, where developers collaborate on code in a single branch called ‘trunk’ *,
resist any pressure to create other long-lived development branches by employing documented techniques. They
therefore avoid merge hell, do not break the build, and live happily ever after.

Николай общается с людьми, которые что-то где-то достигли. Иногда интересно, но часто душно.

This idea is pretty simple, in principle: sometimes we miss a good-enough solution because a not-quite-good-enough solution is already out there and in use.

Время от времени читаю, что люди страдают из-за разных часовых поясов в команде и с клиентами, путаются во встречах и вообще не понимают, как вести календарь.

Учу. Включите поддержку часовых поясов в календаре, если вдруг вы этого почему-то не сделали.

I therefore officially announce 2024 to be the year when the square checkbox has finally died.

A linter for Go that finds nil panics. It found several potential nil panic in Betula and Mycorrhiza codebases that I didn't bother fixing.

• https://github.com/uber-go/nilaway/

SQL has evolved. Beyond the relational model. Discover it now.