Today, I was able to test the audio-to-midi service that Music Blocks contributors made last summer together with my students. Here's what they made:
* "Music Blocks Band" by four of my students (group project): https://musicblocks.sugarlabs.org/index.html?id=1744917848164324&run=True
* "Sigma Boy" by Wesley: https://musicblocks.sugarlabs.org/index.html?id=1744919173856994&run=True

(Just like this post whether or not you understand it. The kids did great!)

They also made a video that I hope to share later.

No one talks about the garbage island in the Pacific.

But it’s larger than France, Germany, and Spain combined.

And it’s leaking toxic chemicals into the fish you eat.

Here’s what you were never told about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch:

#Design #Guidelines
Error messages that actually help users · An opportunity to win user trust instead of losing it https://ilo.im/163dfc

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#User #Messages #Forms #ProductDesign #UxDesign #WebDesign #Development #WebDev #Frontend #Backend

Children who were born functionally blind due to bilateral cataracts, and who had corrective surgery years later, had difficulty in understanding social interactions, supporting previous work that indicates that understanding of visual social cues is developed very early in life.

https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(25)00715-1?rss=yes

Hudson's Bay location in Ontario would be torn down for huge 11-tower development
An Ontario mall anchored by a recently shuttered Hudson's Bay location will be totally demolished to make way for an enormous new community with 11 towers.Pre-application plans revealed in April highlight plans to redevelop a portion of the Burlington Centre mall lands ...
#development #retail #housing #construction #Ontario #Burlington
https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2025/04/777-guelph-line-burlington/

With this spring's (or autumn's) #OpenBSD release creeping ever closer (see https://www.openbsd.org/77.html filling out in near real time), you can prepare for the event by by reading "You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks." https://nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_installed_now_for_the_daily_tasks.html.

Enjoy #OpenBSD!

#Development #Introductions
The customizable select (part two) · Potions, anchoring, and radial shenanigans in CSS https://ilo.im/163bxd

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#SelectElement #Form #AnchorPositioning #ProgressiveEnhancement #Chrome #Browser #WebDev #Frontend #HTML #CSS

Youth Hacking 4 Freedom would not be possible without the amazing teenagers who join this contest our incredible sponsors and donors, whose support is vital, and our expert jury, who evaluate the projects.
We sat down and talked with the Brielen Madureira about her work as a #YH4F jury member and her thoughts on the competition. Take a look at our interview with Brie and find out more about YH4F https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20250417-01.html

#Development #Reports
TLS certificate lifespan is going down · It will gradually drop to 47 days by 2029 https://ilo.im/163cjr

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#CA #TLS #Certificates #Https #Privacy #Security #Network #WebDev #Frontend #Backend

#Development #Resources
Apache ECharts · An ever-evolving JavaScript visualization library https://ilo.im/163806

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#Charts #Visualizations #Library #OpenSource #Design #WebDesign #Frontend #JavaScript

#Development #Introductions
The CSS shape() function · It brings responsive shapes to modern CSS https://ilo.im/163c8b

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#ModernCSS #Shapes #CssCalc #CssUnits #Design #VisualDesign #WebDesign #WebDev #Frontend #CSS

#Python is too self-ish. #Development

New Hacking the Grepson podcast episode is out!

Hacking the Grepson 091: Compilers vs Interpreters

Matt (@messerman) and Mike (@nebyoolae) discuss the two main ways one can get a computer to run your code.

Episode Link: https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-2y2ke-187d05b
Show Feed: https://feed.podbean.com/hackingthegrepson/feed.xml
Show Home: https://hackingthegrepson.com

#Development #Techniques
Web performance tips for 2025 · Tiny lessons for turbo-charged websites https://ilo.im/163c1p

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#WebPerf #Website #WebVitals #CrUX #Browser #WebDev #Frontend

>When you are using AI, you are sacrificing knowledge for speed.

https://lucianonooijen.com/blog/why-i-stopped-using-ai-code-editors/

First ever poll ! Without context, are your DTOs (data transfer objects) read only ?

Be it through Python frozen dataclasses, Java lombok Value, or your preferred language feature to make something unmodifiable.

Please boost for reach ! Poll will be open for 3 days.

#Development #Explorations
The new Cookie Store API · A welcome alternative to the ‘document.cookie’ API https://ilo.im/163cda

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#Cookie #JavaScript #API #Browser #WebPerf #WebDev #Frontend

Just found this gem of a Python project
https://pypi.org/project/tariff/
#development