The curious case of the crypto class  

We know not everyone is comfortable with the pace of innovation. Which is cool. It's cool. With all the automation and blockchains who knows what will be left of society in twenty years?

Personally, I fell into the disruptive technology rabbit hole this week. All of my clicks went to three disrupters: robots, crypto...JavaScript.

I also found some pretty cool design trends, the effect of missile warnings on PornHub, plus a couple of cool tools for the devs. Any devs in the house?

Bizarro Devs  

👩‍💻 Misc Tech

Crypto mining creates a graphics card shortage across the US. Check out some of those mining rigs

arstechnica.com  

The Strange History of One of the Internet's First Viral Videos | WIRED

Love these histories of web culture. The story of Vinny's badday.mpg goes back 20 years. Wired have uncovered the truth in this article. It couldn't be more fitting for our cultural moment

wired.com  

Overview | Animated LED Sand | Adafruit Learning System

Build an LED physics toy. The LEDs react to motion and it looks like the are impacted by gravity. From the page "an Adafruit LED matrix displays the LEDs as little grains of sand which are driven by sampling an accelerometer with an Adafruit Feather."

Written by Phillip Burgess, the code can be adjusted to introduce variables. Awesome fun with physics and calculated collisions.

adafruit.com  

You know people are scared when PornHub's traffic decreases

thenextweb.com  

See your state's most popular search term on Pornhub

So, this is a marginal one and I am not sure if it will make the final cut. If you see it then there's a good chance I was fired.

At any rate, it is kind of interesting to see the breakdown of pr0n preferences. Particularly when you start to break down according to relative terms. The full report is in video form, but I dare not click in.

mashable.com  

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