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Posts by Josh Nicholas

Our colleague needs your help keeping a 1,200-year dataset alive!

If you have botanical expertise or are based near Arashiyama, Kyoto — DM her or email tuna@ourworldindata.org.

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After shape() and border-shape, another great feature in the CSS Shape world is on the way.

I will be missing all the hacky-gradients-math-stuff I was doing 😅

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A screenshot of a slide. One side says: "This is a chart" with "My Sales" charted below. The other side says "this is a graph" but the below graph is entirely redacted.

A screenshot of a slide. One side says: "This is a chart" with "My Sales" charted below. The other side says "this is a graph" but the below graph is entirely redacted.

Redactions in this AFP FOI lol www.afp.gov.au/sites/defaul...

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A reminder to check out alternative media outfits like We Used to Be Journos, Deepcut and Lamestream who are all putting in the work to bring you news analysis and the stories/perspectives the mainstream sometimes misses. They need subscribers, to exist.
Feel free to add your own recommendations.

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Can you make a stretch goal that you repost your porridge recipe from Twitter? I used to use that

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All 11.333.878 buildings in the Netherlands

12½ years ago, I made a map of all the buildings in the Netherlands. Unexpectedly, people loved it!
Ever since, I have been wanting to make an updated version of the map. Newer data, higher resolution, more interactive! I never got around to it, until last week: bertspaan.nl/buildings

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Is there anything in particular you would point people towards if they want to learn sewing, weaving etc. first?

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AP says it will offer buyouts as part of pivot away from newspaper-focused history The Associated Press says it will offer buyouts to an unspecified number of its U.S.-based journalists as part of an acceleration away from the focus on newspapers and their print journalism that sust...

People should actually be very alarmed that while AP's business model is shot to bits, Americans are still very much reliant on the news it delivers. The alternatives in some cases are inferior or non-existent.
apnews.com/article/news...

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Intense days, we’ve published many Moon pieces—including this one today in video format—for which I 3D-printed a model of the Moon exactly the size that astronauts see it from Orion. According to NASA, it looks like a basketball if you hold it at arm's length. tinyurl.com/bs8ytpap

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Data Visualization with Textiles This site is notes and drafts that may someday become a Handbook of Data Visualization with Textiles.

If you like data, or making things with textile crafts (sewing, knitting, crochet, weaving, etc.), I've finally written something up about data visualization with textiles. More words coming over the next few months! #DHmakes

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Bending a straight line using pure CSS?! 👀

Another cool demo in progress powered by border-shape. It's coming to @developer.chrome.com next week! 🤩

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The dream is over for Chicago. Bulls can still finish 81-1, but season feels hollow now.

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It's like four times the capacity of the converter in my pilot prera!

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are these mostly archive/older things or newer stuff, too? I can find a little bit scattered across a bunch of streamers, but I'm wondering if there's anyone doing this at scale anymore

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Expect an imminent cease and desist

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