"Obamacare" explained very well. via reddit.com
A clear Reddit explanation of the Affordable Care Act and how it works.
Interesting
CaspianX2 comments on ELI5: What exactly is Obamacare and what did it change?
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Why Are American Kids So Spoiled? : The New Yorker
Contrasting a six-year-old Matsigenka girl who unasked helps with a five-day leaf-gathering trip against Los Angeles kids who must be begged to bathe or untie their own sneakers, the piece asks why American children are so indulged and so unhelpful. It surveys the new "un-parenting" literature (Koslow on boomerang adult children, Levine on overestimating parental influence, Druckerman on French firmness, Marano on college-admissions anxiety driving invasive parenting) and notes a vicious cycle in which low expectations breed incompetence and still lower expectations. The author's own failed attempts to give her sons chores add humor, and the essay closes by placing "adultescence" in the long evolutionary and historical stretching of childhood, leaving open whether it is adaptive or just a symptom of general slackness.
Handsontable - jQuery grid editor. Excel-like grid editing with HTML & JavaScript
Handsontable - #jQuery grid editor. Excel-like grid editing with HTML & JavaScript -
Why Responsive Design Actually Begins on the Server
Bryan and Stephanie Rieger of Yiibu argue in this Breaking Development talk that responsive layouts built purely on client-side techniques should be paired with adaptive, server-side strategies. Their case is partly about equity: if good mobile web experiences effectively require a recent iPhone, the result is an optimal experience for a privileged few while the many who can't afford to chase every new device are missed. The page is mostly a pointer to the slide deck, with a few pull quotes, speaker bios, and a note on the conference, so the substance lives in the linked SlideShare presentation.
Symbolset
Symbolset's landing page pitches an icon font service built on semantic mapping: each symbol is tied to Unicode values and common words, so a screen reader or search engine reads the term while sighted users see the icon. It also claims the icons are scalable and retina-ready, and that a whole set loads in a single HTTP request. The page is marketing copy with no technical detail beyond those four selling points (semantic, accessible, scalable, lightweight), so it mainly identifies the product and its accessibility angle rather than explaining how it works.
10 essential performance tips for MySQL | ITworld
What was saved looks like a news-site front page rather than a single article, so there is no one piece to summarize. The lead item is Taryn Plumb's Sep 22, 2026 report that California is joining other US states in restricting data center expansion, with at least 45 projects worth about $68 billion blocked or delayed in the second quarter as communities resist demands on power, water, and land. Analysts quoted say enterprises will need a different approach. Around it sit headlines on AI-driven layoffs (Gartner expects a third to be reversed by 2029 at higher cost), Google's antitrust outcomes, rising agent inference costs, and Anthropic's court win over the Pentagon. If the data center story was the reason for saving, the full article would need to be opened and saved separately.
The Perfect Workflow, with Git, GitHub, and SSH | Nettuts+
The Perfect Workflow, with #Git, #GitHub, and #SSH | Nettuts+
Top Shadow | CSS-Tricks
This is the comment thread under a CSS tutorial on a fixed-position top shadow, a body:before pseudo-element with a box-shadow that makes content look like it scrolls beneath the page edge. The main troubleshooting exchange has a reader reporting scroll slowdown. Chris asks for a reduced test case, and the reader eventually finds the real culprit was heavy text-shadow use across their own site. Other commenters add variants: a bottom-edge version using body:after, a left-side shadow, a wider width and negative left offset so the shadow reaches the corners, and a relative-position workaround for non-body elements. There is also an IE fallback using a repeating transparent PNG, and a tip to test on slow machines.
Follow the Dark Money | Mother Jones
Mother Jones's 2012 history of American campaign finance traces a repeating cycle of scandal, reform, and loophole, from Teddy Roosevelt's corporate shakedowns and Nixon's pre-disclosure cash blitz through Clinton's soft-money fundraising abuses to Citizens United and super-PACs. It follows the long struggle between reformer Fred Wertheimer (FECA, McCain-Feingold) and the deregulators Mitch McConnell and James Bopp, who gutted the FEC's enforcement and won a string of Supreme Court cases after Alito replaced O'Connor. It ends with reformers stymied in the courts and Congress, betting on a constitutional amendment and on the next big scandal to swing the pendulum back.
Pageguide by tracelytics
Pageguide by tracelytics - #jquery
Peity • progressive <canvas> pie charts
Peity • progressive <canvas> pie charts - #jquery
edge of sanity . central logging with open source software
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QueryLoader2 – Preload your images with ease - Gaya Design
Announcement of QueryLoader2, a rewrite of Gaya's 2009 jQuery preloader plugin that scans chosen elements for images and background images and loads them before the page is shown, with a progress bar. The post covers setup (include after jQuery 1.7.1, call `$("body").queryLoader2()` on document ready, with a DOMContentLoaded variant for iOS) and the options: bar color and height, percentage display, deep search of child elements, fade or grow completion animation, and onLoadComplete/onComplete callbacks. The code now lives on GitHub for bug reports and pull requests, with a demo page linked.
louisville all for sale / wanted classifieds "Barn wood" - craigslist
Craigslist classifieds listing for reclaimed barn wood available for sale or wanted in Louisville.
Performance Tuning PHP
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Reference - What does this symbol mean in PHP? - Stack Overflow
PHP's `...` operator (the splat operator, available since 5.6) works in two directions: in a function signature it collects any number of arguments into an array to make a variadic function, and in a call it unpacks an array into separate arguments. The article walks through seven examples, including summing numbers, mixing a plain value with an unpacked array, and unpacking two arrays in one call. It then covers the PHP 8 behavior with named arguments: a variadic parameter collects extra named arguments as string-keyed array entries but can't be targeted by name itself, and unpacking an associative array acts like passing each key-value pair as a named argument. That makes it handy for forwarding arguments to nested calls or constructors, as in the exception-throwing example.
flexi cart | A Shopping Cart Library for CodeIgniter
This is the project page for flexi cart, a free open source shopping cart library for CodeIgniter 2.0+, announcing the 1.1 release with new language files, library message functionality and ajax demos. It stresses that the library is a modular toolkit whose features can be switched on or off, not an all-in-one e-commerce package, so the developer builds the store around it. It points users to the detailed user guide, the downloadable demo code showing how to implement each feature, and a CodeIgniter forum thread for further support.
PHP Readability - PHP Port of Arc90's JS Readability
#PHP Port of Arc90's JS Readability -