[WATCH] "This is not where I'm from. I have to go back home." A Ghanaian leaving South Africa after his country issued an evacuation notice for its citizens says he's not leaving SA because of the alleged xenophobia. @NqobileMadlala_ reports
My shyness has this exception where if someone is as shy as i am or even more, i suddenly develop another personality that's extremely extroverted just to save the other person.
My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces):
I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept):
Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow
I have been watching derek since 2013, and this video popped up 2 days back, on reading this tweet I thought he sold off his channel or something - today i got the time to actually see the video
this is what actually happened -
veritasium is partially owned by a VC, called electrify. derek has been making videos weekly everyday for 10yrs, for which he got exhausted and he couldn't get time with his family or himself for the fact. so he partnered up with a VC, hired a few other people to help him make videos and took a backseat from making the videos alone. that's it, nothing else. He didn't want to stop the channel because his main motive to promote scientific rigor, which can be done with him in the backseat as well.
i don't even how unsympathetic and inhumane you have to be to not support this move. we often forget that fact the people we watch online are humans too. they have lifes too. once we god-complexing them, maybe we can understand they live the same life we do. Maybe then we can learn to understand and be human towards others.
Much power to Veritasium and team <3
We are all so fucking lucky.
We are the luckiest mfers in history.
You can fly anywhere on Earth in less than 24 hours.
Your great-grandfather died within 50 miles of his birthplace.
You can talk to anyone alive from your pocket, for free.
You can start a business from your toilet.
You can learn ANYTHING, instantly, for free.
Nearly everyone before you died young, never left their village, had three career options.
They’d sell their fucking souls for ONE DAY of your life.
Travel the world. Make friends. Build cool shit. Enjoy it. We won the lottery.
You can just do things.
So go do them.
Plan later what.
Fortune favors the fast.