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A Year of Mornings
A collection of fifty love poems that follows a young heart as it finds love, finds the strength to be in love and finally, finds the strength to let go.
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I am a platform engineer and a writer based in Finland.
I am the author of A Year of Mornings, a collection of poems for young adults.
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Spotify is testing a feature that syncs audiobooks with paper editions by Jess Weatherbed
Using Page Match will require users to unlock or purchase the audiobook on Spotify, and own either the paper or ebook version of the same book. The feature works by scanning the page you’re currently reading with your device camera, using optical character recognition (OCR) to identify passages that are then matched to specific timestamps in the audiobook.
I wrote about a similar idea in mixed format books. It would be good to see it out in the world.
Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots
Like every generation of students, there are good students, bad students and very brilliant students. It will always be the case, people evolve (I was, myself, not a very good student). Chatbots don’t change anything regarding that. Like every new technology, smart young people are very critical and, by defintion, smart about how they use it.
Interesting read.
By joining forces with the Astro team, we are doubling down on making Astro the best framework for content-driven websites for many years to come.
I’m a little worried by this. This website uses Astro. I like Cloudflare. So hopefully this will be fine.
Microsoft is closing its employee library and cutting back on subscriptions by Tom Warren
In an internal FAQ about the changes, Microsoft notes that subscriptions aren’t being renewed as “part of Microsoft’s shift to a more modern, AI-powered learning experience through the Skilling Hub.” This means the physical library space is changing, too. “The Library closed as part of Microsoft’s move toward a more modern, connected learning experience through the Skilling Hub,” notes the FAQ. “We know this change affects a space many people valued.”
Disgusting to read this. Libraries are awesome.
Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and Solar Buildout
Last year China installed more than half of all wind and solar added globally. In May alone, it added enough renewable energy to power Poland, installing solar panels at a rate of roughly 100 every second.
Beautiful pictures.
Garden
Lords of uncreation
A Closed and Common Orbit
Elements of Fiction Writing - Scene & Structure
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
