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Small newsletter today covering niche topics like Berlin tourism, the slow decline of an open source project, and other interesting tidbits.
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Theyre all junk and should be banned: the trouble with at-home food intolerance tests | Health & wellbeing | The Guardian
theguardian.comI have had a B12 deficiency for a while, and am also interested in monitoring other aspects of my health. I also have a massive needle phobia, so getting blood tests with a Doctor is always a challenge for me. So imagine my delight when I noticed that DM, a German chain, started advertising these at-home tests. Turns out they are mostly junk.
Is Berlin Tourism on the Ropes? - The Berliner
the-berliner.comTopping off this story this week was the news that Ryanair is pulling out of Berlin, blaming high fees (true) and other accusations at the City's over budget, delayed, and generally underwhelming airport. In truth the city is no longer cheap, is dirty, constantly under construction, relatively unfriendly, and now even the cultural sector is dying… So yeah, why would tourists bother?
Mercator's Modern Atlas | Oculi Mundi
oculi-mundi.comI love old maps! Oculi Mundi maintains a great collection and podcast, oddly at the University of Sunderland, not a place you expect to find such a collection. One day I hope to visit ;)
The Slow Collapse of MkDocs Florian Maas
fpgmaas.comAhh open source. Alongside the actual work is always politics, sometimes mysterious clashes of personality that don't always makes sense to an onlooker. Sadly this seems to have happened to MkDocs, one of my favourite docs tools. The community has splintered, forks created, and no one is really sure why.
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