in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with.

this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

Hello, front-end developers. Here's your infrequent reminder to make websites that also work on browsers NOT Google Chrome.

Forcing anyone to use Google's glorified spyware is not cool.

#WebDev

Italian mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher Giordano Bruno died #OTD in 1600. He is known for his cosmological theories, which conceptually extended to include the then-novel Copernican model. He proposed that the stars were distant suns surrounded by their own planets, and he raised the possibility that these planets might foster life of their own, a cosmological position known as cosmic pluralism. via @wikipedia

Giordano Bruno at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/8901

#books #literature
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From /u/Udzu on Reddit: The numbers 0-99 sorted alphabetically in English, French, Spanish and German.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1adux6w/the_numbers_099_sorted_alphabetically_in/

(German confirmed to be a scrambling algorithm masquerading as a language.)