⚡🌫️ Why does rubbing a balloon on your hair create a spark, while rubbing two identical pieces of glass can sometimes do the same?

Physicists have now identified a "hidden force" that controls how #static #electricity moves: a thin, invisible coating of #carbon-based molecules that accumulates on everything we touch.

👉 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-make-a-major-breakthrough-in-solving-a-hair-raising-mystery-about-static-electricity-180988382/

#physics #science #education #research #discovery #nature #history #engineering

Scientists Make a Major Breakthrough in Solving a Hair-Raising Mystery About Static Electricity

The findings can help explain the physics behind phenomena like volcanic lightning

Smithsonian Magazine

"[A]fter a painstaking series of experiments, Waitukaitis and colleagues at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) have strong evidence that carbon-based surface contaminants – in other words, schmutz – are, in fact, the determining factor in how electric charge flows when certain types of insulating materials come into contact."

https://physicsworld.com/a/surface-contamination-holds-the-key-to-a-static-electricity-mystery/

#Physics #Electricity #Static #Materials

Surface contamination holds the key to a static electricity mystery – Physics World

Carbon-rich “schmutz” determines how charge moves between objects made from identical insulating oxides

Physics World

370 Devil's Hideout (Demo) (GameMaker) Free Horror Pixel Art Point and Click Adventure Game FPV

https://clip.place/w/oZsDYDjkPyYpvBmSrYLcww

370 Devil's Hideout (Demo) (GameMaker) Free Horror Pixel Art Point and Click Adventure Game FPV

PeerTube

Giscus [1] is awesome for adding comments to static sites using the Github discussion feature. However, relying on GitHub always felt like a double-edged sword.

I just saw BeBlog that allows comments to be integrated with self-hosted Gitlab instances. Nice! Here's a blog post [3]. I haven't tried it. Anyone?

[1]: https://github.com/giscus/giscus
[2]: https://gitlab.com/antonbelev/beblob
[3]: https://belev.me/2025/02/20/Introducing-BeBlob-A-GitLab-Powered-Comment-Section-for-Static-Websites/

#comments #static #pages #blog #integration #community #feature

GitHub - giscus/giscus: A commenting system powered by GitHub Discussions. :speech_balloon: :gem:

A commenting system powered by GitHub Discussions. :octocat: :speech_balloon: :gem: - giscus/giscus

GitHub

In the period where we both wrote our static web pages in HTML and the period where I wrote Dynamic webpages with database backends in the most simple HTML and JavaScript possible all websites were still fast.

The first is the netscape period. The second a few years later.

Somewhere down the line people started to use IDEs to code static websites. The programmers of the IDEs never imagined that people would abuse those environments in such a way.

Since those days it started to go down fast. It became catastrophic when people started to use yswyg HTML editors.

@rl_dane

#HTML #static #Dynamic #database #JavaScript #HTML5 #programming

Ah, the cutting-edge #innovation of decentralized social networking—now with a ✨sparkling✨ new paint job called "static sites". 🚀 Just fork, enable, and pretend you're not just slapping lipstick on an HTML pig. 🤡 Who needs dynamic interaction when you can have the excitement of watching paint dry on GitHub Pages instead? 🎨
http://satproto.org/ #decentralizedsocialnetworking #static #sites #GitHubPages #webdevelopment #humor #HackerNews #ngated
s@: Social Networking over Static Sites

Social networking over static sites

sAT Protocol
This is how it should be📺 / FUMA / June 24, 2025
#初音ミク #static
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/131930452

This week's #WebOrigami comic: Maps transform bulk content

More about Tree.map builtin function: https://weborigami.org/builtins/tree/map
HTML comic: https://weborigami.org/comics/maps-transform-bulk-content.html

#blogging #static #smallweb