The Structure of an Elm Application
James Kolce, CSS-Tricks, 2017/07/05
We habve a number of Javascript and CSS frameworks - JQuery, Angular, Vue, Node, Less, Bootstrap, React - so the case has to be pretty good for adding another one. Though that said, as HTML changes, and as modern HTML is implemented on browsers, the need for various frameworks changes. More...

Making the Web More Human
Creative Commons, Medium, 2017/07/05
This article and the associated Creative Commons project address “the abstraction problem.” This problem describes the tendency of digital interaction to depersonalize communications. More...

KineMan
2017/07/05
KineMan is a lovely web-based 3D simulation of a human skeleton. View KineMan from any angle, and manipulate any of the many joints in this body. More...

A Compilation of the Best Content Creation Strategies from 41 Experts
Christopher Jan Benitez, The Blog Herald, 2017/07/05
This post will either inspire you or make you sad. It made me sad. For the most part these arfe people not creating content because the content needs to be created, but rather, in order to create traffic, create backlinks, or generate sales leads. One person even uses a blog title generator in order to come up with things to post. More...

Gitter Webapp
GitLab, 2017/07/05
This is the open-sourced code for a service called Gitter. "Gitter is a community for software developers. This project is the main monolith web application. More...

Blockbench: a framework for analyzing private blockchains
Adrian Coyler, The Morning Paper, 2017/07/05
This is a daunting post, and the article it summarizes is more daunting still. But don't worry about following all of it. Here are the main things. First, in addition to 'public' blockchain networks, like Bitcoin, there can be 'private' blockchain networks, used (for example) for internal recordkeeping. Blockchain's immutability and transparency make it attractive for this purpose. Second, in non-public settings, you don't need such an elaborate mechanism for adding a block to the bockchain. More...

Big List of Decentralized Web Initiatives
Chris Johnson, 2017/07/04
It's not really a big list, yet, but it is a list. "This list is intended to be exhaustive, but this is only an early version.... For the most part, these are not companies. More...

It’s time to protect the public domain!
Jan Gerlach, Dimitar Dimitrov, Wikimedia, 2017/07/04
You go to a museum - there are no photos allowed "because of copyright" even though most of the images are hundreds of years old. What's going on? It is a literal enclosure of public domain content, protected and monetized through the museum gift show. And protected with some very dubious legislation. More...

QUT Robot Academy
Queensland University of Technology, 2017/07/04
No, this is not a place where robots are trained, but.... well, OK, it is a place where robots are trained, but that's not the point of it, it's to train the robot trainers, who ar themselves not robots. More...

Cool Tool | Discovery Education Streaming
Victor Rivero, Ed Tech Digest, 2017/07/04
On the one hand, we have this very laudable initiative: "Featuring tens of thousands of standards-aligned and searchable videos, images, primary source documents, podcasts, audio books, articles and more. More...