It was late summer in 2018. I was an aging developer who wasn’t quite sure where I fit into the WordPress world anymore. I had spent over a decade learning the ins and outs of the platform th…
A lot of things have changed over the years at SSRN. We joined Elsevier and have a lot more resources to do a lot more things; but your paper’s journey through SSRN remains the same. We remain steadfast to support you the researcher to share your research faster and allow everyone in the world to find your research more easily.
Growth. SSRN now has over 900,000 papers from over 442,000 authors and the number of downloads grows daily.
Johan Bové (Johan's Known)James Tomasino wrote about his experience with implementing #IndieWeb Webmentions on his Gopher blog.
To bridge my webmention from HTTP to Gopher, I'm web-mentioning his post through the Floodgap Gopher proxy. If you're using Lynx or another Gopher-capable browser, open his post here: gopher://gopher.black:70/phlog/20191223-webmentions-and-microsub
Aryan J (The DEV Community)See how much I read in Pocket in 2019, including the most popular articles I saved and more.
Chris, you read a ton this year and made it into our top 5% of readers. That’s an impressive amount of knowledge gained.
You read 676K words in Pocket. Equal to 9 books.
If a Pulitzer-nominated 34-part series of investigative journalism can vanish from the web, anything can.
[The Web] is a constantly changing patchwork of perpetual nowness. ❧
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Is it possible to extract the closed caption transcript from YouTube videos? We have over 200 webcasts on YouTube and each is at least one hour long. YouTube has closed caption for all videos but it
The case of Joseph Henry Loveless, who sawed his way out of jail in 1916, is among the oldest solved using genetic genealogy.
His shelves are mostly empty, but Mitoshi Matsumoto plans to continue his fight against the company to change Japan’s tough convenience store culture.
Welcome to The Independent Variable, a digital publication for news that doesn’t matter written by me, mynameiskev.in (I may or may not matter). I also have a propensity for completenonsen.se (but that’s just between you and me). I call this here thing a digital publication, but in all honesty, you‘ll just find things like link and video posts from across the interwebs along with the occasional list (who doesn’t love to hate lists?) and maybe even an article or two. All posts are tagged according to the icon key in case you ever get confused, lost, or completely fed up with me.
I wish there was a way to subscribe to writers the same way you can use RSS. Obviously twitter gets you the closest, but usually a whole lot more than just the articles they’ve written. It would be awesome if every time Danny Chau or Wesley Morris published a piece I’d know.
Here's what you really need to do to start 2020 off right
On the outside, the mansion looks normal enough. But once you venture inside, that's when the fever dream truly begins.
God Mode is a handy way to access multiple Windows commands in one single window. Here's how to use it.
