Elliot Jay StocksFun / terrifying experiment with agents from Hannah Fry. Some interesting thoughts in this on how bad it could very easily go.
Al Power
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Product designer with a UX mindset, perennial web tinkerer, artist and sometimes photographer, living down on the South coast of the UK.
yoshIn case people are wondering why GitHub has been having some issues as of late - the GitHub COO recently shared that they're handling up to an order of magnitude more traffic than they were a year ago.
It's not like GitHub is just serving up pictures and text - things like the core git backend and actions are quite complex to host at scale. Idk, I guess I'm not surprised there are some stability issues when they're going from handling 1 billion commits/year to 14 billion commits/year.
Enjoyed wandering around the Lost Gardens of Heligan recently near Mevagissey in Cornwall. Edited with @aphera beta 11
Doctor M. PopularThe Kei-tora Gardening Contest is an annual event put on by the Japan Federation of Landscape Contractors to see who can build the best-looking garden on the back of a Kei truck. Here are some of the winners from the past 12 years. http://zoenren-osaka.jp/activity.html
Max LeibmanThis is so depressing. I'm still using the same green JanSport backpack I bought in February 2008. I love it. I hate the idea of not being able to replace it with something I can count on to stand up to decades of hard wear this one has.
My experience with my first JanSport should make me a customer for life, but it sounds like they are hellbent on undoing that.
https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-backpack-got-worse-on-purpose
Luke Dorny 
Chris Glass has created his own unique internet ecosystem with his site and excels at web design and many other design skills.
@glass
For example, just look at this goldmine of interesting links:
Don’t stop there. His blog is a dailyish curation of good humanity and kind curiousity. He is consistently someone I read and follow, for many years.
Bursts of colour. Testing some secondhand 45/75mm prime lenses at the Arundel Castle Tulip Festival 🌷📷
Fascinating article about life on Tristan da Cunha, the worlds most remote inhabited island https://apps.npr.org/life-on-tristan-da-cunha/
Clive ThompsonNASA's photo galley from yesterday's lunar fly-by are bonkers gorgeous
full gallery here: https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby/
