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The ornithological artist drawing 1,000 birds by hand – all for an app that wants you off your phone

The mission of the Flock app is quietly subversive: to encourage users to ditch their screens and explore the wonderful world of birding On a brilliantly bright afternoon in his gallery and studio in Bolinas, a small town on the northern California coast, Keith Hansen was putting the finishing touches on a watercolor of an almost improbably flamboyant painted bunting. With an ultra-fine sable…

theguardian.com ·

The ornithological artist drawing 1,000 birds by hand – all for an app that wants you off your phone

We haven't written up this one. Guardian Technology has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

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One Event-Loop Turn, One False Redis Capacity Error

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry . Project Overview redis-py is the Python client for Redis.

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  • Connection slot missing from in-use set and free queue
  • Fix ensures closed connections return to free queue immediately

·dev.to

Scheduling concurrency

Have been trying to look at 3 different languages: Go, Kotlin, Elixir/Erlang mostly to understand their concurrency models. This article concerns mostly about Go's preemptive scheduling.

  • Go 1.14 introduced signal-based non-cooperative preemption mechanism
  • SIGURG signal chosen for preemption due to specific criteria
  • Preemption eliminates need for checks, mirrors OS thread switching

·dev.to

🛻CSS Art: Smoothie Food Truck

This is a submission for Frontend Challenge - Comfort Food Edition, CSS Art . Inspiration 💠I was not sure I was going to enter this challenge at first, because I was not feeling inspired.

·dev.to