#astronomy posts — Ben Crowder https://bencrowder.net/blog/tag/astronomy/ Feed for blog posts tagged with #astronomy. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:22:16 GMT en-US https://bencrowder.net/ Links #24 https://bencrowder.net/blog/2020/links-24/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2020/links-24/ Wed, 04 Nov 2020 12:00:00 GMT
  • Jason Kottke on what ten million stars look like — this is breathtaking and mind-boggling and beautiful
  • Animation of a medieval bridge being built — mmm, more of this, please
  • Jeremy Keith on dev perception of boring technologies — seems wise
  • Owen Williams on SPAs — in a similar vein
  • Kyle Gene Brown on Smalltalk and design patterns — I found this interesting (such astute commentary, I know)

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  • Pantelis Kalogiros’s CSS 3D Adventure — impressive hack, which makes me think about other ways CSS’s 3D functionality could be used (for actual projects)
  • Ethan Wang on leading-trim in CSS — a much-needed fix, looking forward to this getting implemented
  • NASA’s patent for a new way to get to the moon — I…didn’t know these could be patented
  • An animation showing how Jupiter’s gravity saves us from asteroids — thank you, Jupiter
  • Ben Southwood on the rise and fall of the industrial R&D lab — oh how I wish I could have worked at Bell Labs or Xerox PARC

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  • The Weeklypedia — an interesting way to get one’s news
  • FamilySearch’s cousin chart — nice, clear explanation
  • VTM text-based environment — I’m intrigued by the large virtual space with lines to each window (see the video)
  • Adam Frank on how to tell if there were pre-human civilizations on Earth — which is useful for seeing if there are civilizations on other planets
  • Robin Rendle on the beauty of the web — agreed

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