Map of GitHub reveals entire department structure
Also, the 90s Called and Dillo Answered the Phone

The New Corporate Org Chart is a Directed Acyclic Graph, Naturally

Someone has finally drawn the floor plan for the new MegaCorp Campus; it is a sprawling, colorful, and utterly terrifying Map of GitHub. The interactive visualization by Developer Andrei Tașca organizes the entire repository universe into a beautiful, but concerning, network graph. The clusters of activity, one would assume, represent high-performing teams, but we all know they are really just silos of mutually incomprehensible codebases.

Management, which is a concept currently under active review, is treating this map like a treasure document, hoping it will finally tell them why the frontend team never talks to the data team. It will not. It is simply a very nice rendering of the fact that all dependencies lead back to a 10 year old script maintained by one intern who left three years ago. It is helpful to know where the problems are located, but unhelpful in knowing why we still have them.

The Hardware That Just Wants to Be a Monitor

The collective sigh of the consumer base has manifested as a high-ranking article demanding that Dumb TVs deserve a comeback. For years, we have been subjected to televisions that demand to know our preferences, track our viewing habits, and generally act like an overzealous HR representative during a performance review. All anyone wanted was a screen to display pixels without being forced to download firmware updates every Sunday afternoon.

The commenters on the thread are, unsurprisingly, eager to embrace this new old technology. Their collective trauma is palpable; they are tired of their devices constantly trying to upsell them or accidentally selling their viewing data to a third-party analytics vendor named "Gary". It is a clear failure of the "benevolent incompetence" model; they tried to help, but they just made the system infinitely slower and more prone to privacy mishaps.

The Dinosaur Browser That Still Runs Faster Than Your Desktop Slack Client

A small ceremony was held to mark the 25th Anniversary of Dillo, the minimalist web browser known for its speed and its principled refusal to render anything fun. Dillo Web Browser Developer Jorge Arellano reflected on the longevity of the project, which is a testament to the idea that if you just keep your head down and refuse to implement anything that requires more than a single CPU cycle, you can survive all the browser wars.

It is a browser from a simpler time; one where the internet was mostly text and people did not expect their application to consume three gigabytes of RAM to render a corporate motivational poster. This is the application that gets silently installed on the server that runs your payroll because no one wants to admit it works better than Chrome. A quarter century of avoiding feature creep is a feat worthy of a muted bronze plaque in the server room.

Briefs

• Mandatory Training Re: Math: A visual proof that a^2 – b^2 = (a + b)(a – b). Please review this proof before your next performance review; the last team failed to understand algebraic factoring and wasted $14 million.
• Legacy Tech Archiving: Ruby Video is on a mission to index every Ruby conference video. The sheer commitment to maintaining the historical record of a technology stack is either commendable passion or a deeply concerning obsession.
• Email Drama: A preserved email shows Palm's CEO Ed Colligan emailing Steve Jobs in 2007. It is a stark reminder that all corporate history is just glorified email threads from people who wish they had replied all.