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Ease yourself into this weekend by listening to the superb new release by Dowry - Numb. Close your eyes and let the music into your bones.
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Elad Shechter published a great Complete Guide To Responsive Images on Medium, going into details on all the different ways and options to implement responsive images.
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The Stack Overflow blog published a valuable post on the Five Pitfalls To Avoid When Outsourcing Software Development.
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SDNotes.com is a hosting service for simple, destructible websites. Everything is public and the site self-destructs after 30 days without a post.
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Prisma.io published a very informative post about the different types of databases from flat files to family columns, describing what they are used for and including links to the top implementations of each.
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On their quest to unearth lost video game coding secrets, researchers John Aycock and Tara Copplestone of the Universities of Calgary and York stumbled accross a piece of code from the 1982 Atari 2600 game Entombed which they could not reverse engineer. The video game archaeologists contacted employees involved in developing the game, and they too recalled not being able to decipher the logic behind a particular data table which was used to generative valid maze structures within the game. While they couldn't contact the developer in question, one of his colleagues remembered that “He told me it came upon him when he was drunk and whacked out of his brain.”. You can read the full story on BBC Future.
As a Hoslips fan, I was surprised to learn that their legendry Irish anthem Dearg Doom was once remixed by Avicci! Listen to the soundcloud clip here.
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This week I finished reading Gaeilge: A Radical Revolution by Caoimhín De Barra. The book does an excellent job at describing the many facets of the relationship between Ireland and the Irish language, from ancient history to modern day. De Barra debunks all of the automated responses most of us Irish have inherited about Gaeilge, such as "It's the way it is taught" and "You'd be better off learning Mandarin".
At times the narrative is somewhat repetitive and a bit too reliant on a myriad of population surveys, however despite this, the book is an enlightening read and an important flag in the ground in the quest to reevalutate our relationship with Irish. The author concludes with some recommendations as to how Irish could be revived, if the people and the state were serious about it. Is fearr Gaeilge briste ná Béarla cliste.
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