Medium’s CSS is actually pretty f***ing good – @fat tells a good story about medium’s evolution of how they write css. Oh, and while he was evolving it he created a new font.

The Robo-Chemist – Researchers are now taking leaps towards building an robotic chemist. Using a combination of software, robotics, and lots of data teams are trying to solve some fundamental questions about how to build a chemical brain.

Utopian for Beginners – Joshua Foer’s look at John Quijada’s conlang (an invented language) called Ithkuil that attempts to eliminate all ambiguity. There are shades of Einstein in the story, as Quijada, a 53 year old DMV worker, completed a momental feat of language design which spontaneously generated an international community and netted hi adoring fans. He just didn’t anticipate the Russian super-race movement led by a Ukrainian terrorist that would adopt his work.

Happy Friday!