Car side and rear-view mirrors are designed to give you a view around your car, but they typically don’t show you the two spots directly to the side of your car (the “blind spots”). Luckily, you can increase the field of view of your side mirrors by over 200% and virtually eliminate blindspots by adding aftermarket blind spot mirrors.
I’m part of a small Discord server and thought it would be funny to make a Geoguessr-style game where you get presented with a random interesting message from the server and have to guess when, where and by who it was posted.
There’s a popular question on the Programmers Stack Exchange site asking, “Are unit tests really that useful?” and the second answer seems to be responding to a straw-man version of automated testing. The comments show that a lot of people seem to think it’s a reasonable description, so …
I recently moved near Seattle, where traffic is terrible but there are surprisingly many bike lanes. Unfortunately, there are also a lot of hills. For a while, I would occasionally bike to work, but the hills were intimidating and I had to re-motivate myself every morning. Around a year ago, I finally gave up and just got an e-bike.
I was inspired by Turntrout to optimize my website more, and two changes took page load times from “fast enough” to “effectively instant: Switching from CloudFront to Bunny CDN to optimize CDN cache misses, and efficiently navigating with Micromorph.
