SCOOP 🚨 AFP News Agency has obtained a draft copy of a forthcoming landmark UN report on #biodiversity It paints a devastating picture: - 1 million species face extinction risk - 75% of land, 40% oceans severely degraded - 80% rise in resource use in three decades news.yahoo.com/lost-world-un-…

lol'd for real at this one

I'm trying out #DEVcommunity for a blog article today. I wanted to write about the "whys" and the "hows" of `pipe` functions in JavaScript: dev.to/benlesh/a-simp…

iPhone was released on this day 12 years ago

being a programmer and watching someone "hack" a computer on a TV show is like being a nurse and watching someone in a movie take blood with a carrot.

But...

HISTORY!

[1/4] Ok this is really funny, check this out. I was in the process of booking a flight via OneTravel. Trying to make me book ASAP, they claimed: "38 people are looking at this flight". Whoa, 38 is a lot, I have to hurry up. But first I have to check how they came up with 38 >>

This is a hacking scene from the Netflix show El Dragón... 😂

No falla. Siempre que dices que un determinado hecho no debe ser DELITO llega uno para preguntarte si acaso ese hecho te parece BONITO o EDUCADO. Amigos, la cárcel es la movida esa de la celda y lo de compartir duchas, no está para castigar lo que nos parece feo o maleducado.

Remember when a Google search used to lead you somewhere? Now it increasingly just keeps you on Google. In fact, Google results take up 62.6% of the first screen of search results in a sample of 15,000 searches. themarkup.org/google-the-gia…

One of the hardest training session I do is what I call VK10K. Concept is simple: to run a vertical kilometer, run down easy and run a 10K flat.

I found it. the most cursed java codebase ever

“I’m here live, I’m not a cat,” says lawyer after Zoom filter mishap “I can see that,” responds judge

#ClimateChange is widespread, rapid, & intensifying – #IPCC Scientists are observing changes in the Earth’s climate in every region & across the whole climate system, says the IPCC’s latest #ClimateReport, released today. ➡️ bit.ly/WGICC2021PR ➡️ bit.ly/WGICC2021

A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps arstechnica.com/?p=1673505

Long-term thinking

A short tutorial to understand z-index in CSS 👇

Okay, I've taken the time to articulate all of my thoughts in a single space about the current pipeline proposal. I've also included as much information as I can about functional piping, and the two most popular pipelines. (It's opinionated, sorry) benlesh.com/posts/tc39-pip…

Ash from a volcano covers a house as it continues to erupt on the Canary island of La Palma,