Dominic Ee

in honor of Sim Wong Hoo, here's a quick historical review of the Sound Blaster! 🧵

If Chicken McNuggets are sold in packs of 6, 9, or 20, then 43 is the largest number of nuggets that cannot be ordered.

“A photo of a polar bear in a desert of cacti at sunset, 35mm film” Generated with #Imagen

The perfect vintage #aviation photo does not exis—

This led me to a website called nysonglines.com (weird name but ok) that lists every building in Manhattan and a short description of what it is. But what’s crazy is how it’s laid out like a map using only HTML text and boxes!

Posture Pal helps you improve you posture with your AirPods 🎧 It tracks your neck tilt and alerts you when a bad posture is detected, even in the background. Get it for free here: apps.apple.com/us/app/posture… All proceeds this week will go to families who had to flee Ukraine 🇺🇦

I am honestly very concerned by our urban environment in #Singapore, one stressor being #noise. The deleterious effects on human health from long-term exposure to noise includes impeded cognitive development in children, & greater risk of mental illnesses/diseases in adults.

Governments around the world are moving forward with laws to promote competition in app markets. As we move ahead with the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, we’re announcing new Open App Store principles to adapt to emerging regulations. blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/…

I am a professional software engineer that has been writing JavaScript for 25 years. I am incapable of setting up a modern JavaScript stack from scratch. If I cannot find a start repo with the set of tools I want to build already configured, I'm just stuck.

① Hello. I'd like to share my favorite Nintendo secret. It starts with the Famicom Disk System, which was, by all accounts, a very important system but a total commercial failure. When you boot it up, you're greeted with this energetic, very Nintendo fanfare: (Sound on!)

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If we took a ride hailing app ride and the car smells of cigarettes smoke, can we ask for a refund?

I've spent a lifetime wondering why the Amiga "Insert Workbench" boot image looked kinda wonky, as I always assumed it was hand-drawn pixel art. Turns out it's actually a series of vector drawing instructions. Incredible. They take up just 412 bytes in the ROM. (via stevenf)

i am passing a single prop to my react component, that prop is called 'variables'

Since we’re all looking at Stocks today… In the past years #VoiceOver has started to do cool stuff w charts. You can summarize charts and even play an audio graph! In this video, I’m using 1-finger up/down swipes to go thru all the actions, then double-tap to activate. #a11y

The rockhoppers on the left are heading out to sea, the ones on the right are heading back to the rookery having been out at sea. I love the conflab they have when they meet... and the confused penguin at the end!! 😂 #FalklandIslands #Falklands #RockhopperPenguins

Consider the sound and analysis of a 33.6kbit/s dial-up modem over traditional telephone lines.

xkcd Phone 12 xkcd.com/2377/ m.xkcd.com/2377/

Here's a tour of the puzzle pieces that make up #Townscaper. To date, there are 545 of them.

#Townscaper is out in Early Access! 🏠🏤⛪️🏘️🏡👷🌊🕊️🐦🌟 Go buy it! Go build some houses! steamcommunity.com/app/1291340