Colour schemes for the Linux desktop and applications. The author highlights some really nice work.
The author also gives an honourable mention to Ethan Schoonover's venerable Solarized scheme. Solarized doesn't make it in to his top three, but only because he couldn't make it play nicely with the GTK themes he likes.
A fascinating and alarming interview in the Journal of Bibliophilic Design with Steve Tonkin, dark sky advisor to the Cranborne Chase National Landscape. Topics covered include the effects of light pollution on human health, on wildlife and biodiversity, and on the night sky and astronomy.
Right Light, Right Place, Right Time.
Disclosure: Steve is a member of my astronomy club, the Fordingbridge Astronomers.
Mine went something like this.
"Seriously? This is a joke, right?"
"Hmm, in fact this appears to deliver the kind of text editing power I've always dreamed of possessing. I must explore this further."
"Wow, there's so much here. It's complex and often seems counterintuitive, but it's completely intoxicating! My previous text editor now seems hopelessly inadequate, even though I keep returning to it like a child reaching for its blankie."
"Having read the transcript of Andrei Zmievski's 2009 presentation 'VIM for (PHP) Programmers', I'm converted. Vim is now an indispensible part of my life."
At this stage it was no longer possible to return to using less powerful text editors, even though I experienced occasional urges to do so.
"Normal mode is like flying over a landscape wearing a jetpack. I can go anywhere and do anything! Wheee!"
Possible humorous responses.
"Actually, Stage 1 should be 'Rejection: Horrified, you run to emacs'"
"You're missing Stage 5 in which you learn how to exit vim."
etc.
Ed Hawkins, a climate scientist at the University of Reading (and the creator of the warming stripes) has posted on twitter this animation of sea level rise between 1900 and 2023. It's a crucial range of data, but personally I find this complementary graph posted in the replies to be a more helpful visualisation.
Some pseudo-sceptic in the replies posted a de rigueur "Plymouth Rock" jibe: Here's a short thread about that by Rob Larter, a polar marine scientist*.
*I've linked to the last tweet in Rob's thread to prevent twitter truncating it with a "Show replies" link. Please just scroll up to see the thread in its entirety.
Filing under "Quelle surprise". CarbonBrief has the story
Now this is cycling and walking infrastructure!
The longest tunnel specifically built for biking and walking
Apparently it's the Fyllingsdalstunnelen in Norway.