“Empathy” apparently is what distinguishes well-heeled liberals from well-heeled conservatives.

“Empathy” apparently is what distinguishes well-heeled liberals from well-heeled conservatives. There was a lot of talk about empathy during the election.

Personally, I don’t think it’s a very useful way to look at it. Rather than ask a bunch of heartless corporations to have empathy for the most vulnerable of our society, I’d much prefer to see them regulated the fuck out of and pinned down under the weight of onerous taxes.

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/silicon-valley-has-an-empathy-vacuum

Via Andres Soolo​

Via Andres Soolo​

This is great. You can do quite a bit with little machines.

Originally shared by Danie van der Merwe

Meet the Pinebook, a $89 ARM Laptop That Runs Ubuntu

If you’re looking for a dirt cheap low-power portable Linux laptop you’ll want to keep an eye on this, the Pinebook.

Created by Pine64, the Pinebook is built around the company’s crowdfunded single-board computer, the Pine A64, which sells from just $15.

The 2GB PineA64 is in use in the Pinebook is described as a ‘high-performance’ analog to the Raspberry Pi, and comes with the following specs:

– 64-Bit Quad-Core ARM Cortex A53¹ @ 1.2 Ghz

– 2 GB LPDDR3 RAM

– Dual Core Mali 400 MP2 Graphics

– 16 GB eMMC

– Wi-Fi & Bluetooth

– 1.3MP webcam

– 10,000 mAh LiPo battery

The Pinebook pitches up as 2 separate models, differentiated solely by screen size: an 11.6-inch version priced at $89, or a $99 model with a 14 inch screen.

It’s not intended to compete with a $499 laptop but for many this will provide all their basic computing needs.

See http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/11/pinebook-arm-laptop-runs-ubuntu

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/11/pinebook-arm-laptop-runs-ubuntu

For those of you laying out web pages using a grid system (e.

For those of you laying out web pages using a grid system (e.g. Bootstrap but there are about a million others) how about giving flexbox a go? It’s well supported in browsers these days.

That said the flexbox spec is a little complex to learn quickly so I wrote a CSS library that allows you to do flexbox layouts with a minimum of fuss and with sensible defaults. You can layout out something as easily as this:

<div class="toolbar f-row f-middle f-padding“>

menu

<strong class=" f-grow “>Welcome to f-layout

email

<img style="width:56px;height:56px;border-radius:50%;"

src=”https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/f850593bdae3…..b4acfdfdb98? s=80″>

Which is the tool bar section of the layout shown below.

The classes f-row, f-middle and f-padding mean “lay things out horizontally, vertically centred and with some padding around each element”. The f-grow class on the title “Welcome to f-layout” means expand to fill the all the space. The other stuff is for showing icons and my gravatar.

f-layout is installable by Npm or Bower. Give it a shot and tell me what you think.

https://github.com/jhlagado/f-layout/