PHPWeekly February 15th 2024 (mailchi.mp)
So… what's going on? (kbin.social)
Since the beginning of the year, there's been a bit of a pattern over on @kbinDevlog:...
Marvel Studios 'Fantastic Four' poster unveiled, main cast revealed. (startrek.website)
Thought there may be some overlap between the F4 and Trek fandoms. I’m over the MCU overall, but as a life long F4 fan I might check this out if I hear its decent. Poster looks promising, dig the retro vibes and the team being presented as a family. Pascal seems like an odd pick for Reed Richards, but the rest of the main cast...
Tear Down Walls, and Build Bridges (wedistribute.org)
A libre networking project that's designed to bridge protocol spaces together announced its progress and intentions, and Mastodon users freaked out.
Prosthetic limb device enables users to ‘sense’ temperature difference (www.theguardian.com)
Swiss-Italian study finds MiniTouch can help people with amputations feel whether objects are hot, cold or in between
DC Versus Marvel Omnibus, The Amalgam Age Omnibus coming in August (www.comicsbeat.com)
I’m honestly kind of thrilled, I assumed DC vs. Marvel and Amalgam would be lost to the dustbin of history.
Porting Strategy - Redox - Your Next(Gen) OS (www.redox-os.org)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/9979951...
Dutch PHP Conference 2024 (www.php.net)
Paramount to Lay Off 800 Staffers as CEO Unveils Broad “Streamlining Costs” Effort (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Paramount Lays Off Hundreds of Workers (www.nytimes.com)
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BBC extends their Mastodon social media trial (www.bbc.co.uk)
How Mastodon made friends with Meta (www.platformer.news)
Founder Eugen Rochko on helping Threads federate, dodging venture capital, and why he hopes Bluesky abandons its protocol
Bonfire Offers Framework for Next-Gen Fediverse Platforms (wedistribute.org)
We recently chatted with two of the devs involved with Bonfire. Honestly, they have some really amazing ideas about building a modular Fediverse platform that developers can build on for their own apps.
3D-Printed Neural Tissue Grows And Functions Like a Human Brain (www.sciencealert.com)
Researchers have created the first functional 3D-printed brain tissue that can develop and form connections in the same way as real human brain tissue.
Lemmy Development Update 2024-02-09 (lemmy.ml)
We should defederate from lemmynsfw (kbin.social)
The mods there have decided to allow underage looking content, skirting close to CP. Unless we want such disgusting stuff on our feed, I think we should defederate from that instance....
Jury awards climate scientist Michael Mann $1 million in defamation lawsuit (apnews.com)
A jury said Mann was defamed 12 years ago when a pair of conservative writers compared his depictions of global warming to a convicted child molester.
Improve my code - function to sanitize input fields (chat-to.dev)
i created this function to sanitize the input fields on my site, but i need it (the function) to allow the input of some html tags. how can i improve the function to allow this?
Iceland volcano erupts for 3rd time, triggering lava fountains over 200 feet tall (www.livescience.com)
The underground volcano near Grindavík has begun its third major eruption in three months, opening up a 2-mile-long fissure that is pumping out large amounts of lava and ash.
PHP Weekly - February 8th 2024 (mailchi.mp)
Astronauts may be able to make cement using their own pee (www.sciencenews.org)
Lunar dust and a compound found in urine could be used to build future dwellings on the moon, a new study finds.
A four-holed piece of ivory provides a glimpse into ancient rope-making (www.sciencenews.org)
The tool, unearthed in Central Europe, suggests that locals made devices for stringing together sturdy cords over 35,000 years ago, researchers say.
Mystery of moths' warning sound production explained in new study (phys.org)
The workings of the ultrasonic warning sounds produced by the wings of a species of moth have been revealed by researchers at the University of Bristol.
1st look at asteroid Bennu samples suggests space rock may even be 'a fragment of an ancient ocean world' (www.space.com)
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