The Kid Should See This 🌈🪐✨7h ago

🐦🏠 Researchers have found that sociable weavers in southern #Africa build massive communal nests that can house 500 #birds and last for over a century.

While these structures are impressive displays of avian #engineering, the colony must actively discourage "selfish" individuals who focus on their own rooms rather than the communal roof.

👉 https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/birds/social-weaver-nest

💁🏻‍♀️✨ Weaverbirds design and build intricate nests https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/weaverbirds-nests

#wildlife #nature #architecture #biology #science #behavior #ecology #evolution #ornithology

Weighing a tonne and packed with hundreds of rooms – each home to a family — it can house a staggering 500 households. Is this the ultimate apartment block? | Discover Wildlife

It’s the heaviest, largest, most densely populated bird nest… that's been built and extended over decades

Discover Wildlife
graeme fawcett9h ago

All y'all that think software engineering is dead just because someone invented a better pen...

Y'all letting the pen think for you?

Software engineering isn't dead, it just moved up the stack a bit

Software engineering through philosophy

The way God<ctrl-w>The Universe<ctrl-w><ctrl-w>God intended it

#engineering #thepenisismightierthanthepenis

graeme fawcett9h ago

This is just Conway

Yes

Both of them

I can't help it

[sorry]

#engineering #computerscience

graeme fawcett9h ago

How to fork a universe, in one easy rant

Turtles all the way to origin+1

When you only know one algorithm and can only remember one database schema... the algorithm and the data schema matter. May as well use one that's gone through rigorous QA already... save some time

#engineering

schneckenhaus9h ago
Der Pinios‑Stausee entstand in den 1960er‑Jahren, als der gleichnamige Fluss für Bewässerung und Stromgewinnung aufgestaut wurde. Die gewaltige Dammkrone der Talsperre bei Kendro ist ungefähr zwei Kilometer lang. Auf dem gegenüberliegenden Ufer schimmern in der Ferne die schneebedeckten Gipfel des Erymanthos.
18.01.2026, #Greece #Peloponnese #Elis #Pinios #dam #reservoir #lake #landscape #engineering #water #mountain [4]
World news | The Guardian12h ago
Ratcliffe backlash: outrage over Manchester United co-owner’s comments – The Latest https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2026/feb/12/ratcliffe-backlash-outrage-manchester-united-comments-the-latest #JimRatcliffe #ManchesterUnited #ImmigrationAndAsylum #UkNews #Football #Sport #PremierLeague #Business #Engineering #Technology #Race #WorldNews
Ratcliffe backlash: outrage over Manchester United co-owner’s comments – The Latest

The Monaco-based billionaire Jim Ratcliffe has said he is sorry that his ‘choice of language has offended some people’, after growing outrage over his comments that the UK was being ‘colonised by immigrants’. Lucy Hough speaks to the sports writer and columnist Jonathan Liew

The Guardian
Nebula – Indie Streaming15h ago

Alien Mathematics

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nebula.tv/videos/isaacarthur-alien-mathematics/

trg40413h ago
Story points aren’t in the Scrum Guide or the Agile Manifesto.
One developer sizing work alone? That’s task pointing, not story pointing. Task points tell you nothing about delivering value.
I once had a team switch to Marvel superheroes. Two Spidermen and a Hulk meant nothing to managers.
But the team understood perfectly.
https://agileisanarchy.com/reach-for-the-sky/
#Agile #Scrum #ProjectManagement #SoftwareDevelopment #TechManagement #Engineering
Liars Club

Liars It's the fear that wakes us up The truth that things are such A mess Far beyond repair — Coheed and Cambria (Liars Club) Story points are one of the banes of my existence as a manager. They're an artifact of a conversation the full team had. They are not

Agile is Anarchy
Strong Towns15h ago

Placemaking Is Dead, Long Live Placemaking!

A verb became a noun. A process became a product. And an approach became an adjective.

#engineering

The Kid Should See This 🌈🪐✨17h ago

💡💻 A #RiceUniversity graduate student realized that Thomas #Edison's original 1879 carbon-filament light bulbs were actually the perfect tools for making graphene.

By studying century-old patents, researchers found a way to reach the extreme temperatures needed to create this "miracle material" for #quantum #physics and next-gen computing.

👉 https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a70250188/miracle-computing-material-thomas-edison/

💁🏻‍♀️✨ Inside the West Orange lab of Thomas Edison https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/thomas-edison-lab-west-orange

#history #edison #science #innovation #engineering #tech #technology #discovery #future #research

Scientists Discovered a Miracle Computing Material in Thomas Edison’s 129-Year-Old Invention

The carbon filament used in Edison’s 1897 light bulbs generated the right amount of heat to produce graphene—useful for quantum exploration and supercomputing.

Popular Mechanics