- The New Mad Max Film Is So Feminist My Scrotum Killed Itself
A sublime and perfect piece of writing. Rather like the film, in fact.
Category: Digitalia
Links for Friday May 15th 2015
- Black Widow, Scarce Resources And High-Stakes Stories : Monkey See : NPR
This is a really good essay on the Black Widow problem in the new Avengers movie. Taken by itself, it's not actually terrible – the metaphors she represents are worth pulling into the light and talking about, and there are reasons why it has to be a female character that has to given them – but the problem is that there simply aren't enough prominent women characters in this kind of movie for us to take them in isolation. And that, I guess, feel like the most nuanced criticism one could level …
Links for Saturday May 2nd 2015
- Nasa says EmDrive does work and it may have also created a Star Trek warp drive
Well, OK then. Science fiction ahoy!
Links for Wednesday April 29th 2015
- Miss Piggy awarded feminism prize for 40 years of work by Brooklyn Museum – BBC Newsbeat
Entirely correct and appropriate.
Links for Sunday April 26th 2015
- Working with JSON in Swift Tutorial – Ray Wenderlich
Anyone who has not interest in web app development will probably have gone home in disgust at this point. Non-technical links will resume at some point, honest.
Links for Thursday April 23rd 2015
- LAFABLE – Large Agile Framework Appropriate for Big, Lumbering Enterprises
Offered entirely without comment. - Creating a CRUD App in Minutes with Angular’s $resource
I've been noodling with Angluar as a quick web front-end over my REST API for the last week or so, and I've just turned this up, which will substantially cut down my coding time. - lucadegasperi/oauth2-server-laravel
I'm going to need OAuth for a Laravel thing I'm building. This will save me much work.
Links for Friday April 17th 2015
- remoblaser/laravel-resourceful
Generator for Laravel controllers and views. Not perfect, but a definite save-on-typing-job.
Links for Monday April 6th 2015
- Sister Rosetta Tharpe – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
How have I never heard of this woman properly before today? (Well, no, I know how: patriarchy.) I've got (and enjoyed) a few tracks by her on various complications, but I had no real notion of who she was until I read an article on Cracked.com (of all places) today.
Links for Saturday April 4th 2015
- Pasta Aglio e Olio recipe.
I want to be able to find this, and the other recipe linked in here again another time.
Links for Wednesday April 1st 2015
- Making ‘A barrow by a beacon’ | Matthew Sheret
This gentleman has made a rather pretty little storytelling project for himself – the link to the actual project is in the article, but I'm actually more interested in his notes on the making of. Mostly just as a reminder to self, and to others: none of this stuff is voodoo. If you would like to build a web page, you can learn to build a web page. Any kind of web page. It's really all just a bunch of typing, and nothing to be scared of.