Saturday links

Just draw a fish. Behind the scenes: fish tinder for moderating the drawings. Long discussion on HN and metafilter (via) and a post mortem on the Slur Fish Incident (HN).

Dicing an onion the mathematically optimal way. Math does not account for your tears. or hacking the slider to go up to 100 cuts just to see what would happen.

Fascinating long read from a couple months ago about MrBeast: “The first minute is typically where the majority of viewer loss happens, and this is why, in the opening seconds of a MrBeast video, you feel as though someone has filled your skull with popping candy and is beating you about the head and face with a foam bat.”

I need to read up on the relatively new Sec-Fetch headers because CORS and CSRF tokens are the bane of my existence.

Last week we looked for images in the clouds - this week we’re looking for clams and glaciers in the puddles of concrete that spil out from NYC bodegas.