Raindrop.io Bookmarks 2025-12-04

2025年12月4日

• The World According to Google Street View - Brilliant Maps

  "The map above shows Google's official Street View coverage as of 15 October 2024. The United States, Western Europe, Japan and India among others are all really covered. However, China, most of Africa, and large parts of South America, Canada and Australia are all missing."

• MEWC - Microsoft Excel World Championship

  "Excel Esports transforms a common office tool into a dynamic sport, bringing together a global community of enthusiasts to compete, learn, and celebrate the power of Excel."

• Baikonur pad damaged in Soyuz launch to ISS - SpaceNews

  "Outside observers are not as sanguine as Roscosmos. Anatoly Zak, a longtime expert on Russian space activities, said repairing the platform could take up to two years, adding it was unclear if a temporary fix could be implemented to allow launches there to continue in the interim."

• LEGO announces new NASA Artemis SLS rocket set to lift off (literally!) in 2026 | collectSPACE

  "The new set captures all of the major milestones of the first eight and a half minutes of an Artemis mission (with the exception of the jettison of the abort system tower, which on the real rocket occurs before the Orion separates from the core stage)."

• Do AI Assistants Link When Mentioning Brands? For Ahrefs, Only 28% of the Time

  "on these AI assistants, our brand got mentioned without a link 50-90% of the time; about 28% of the time on average."

• You Can't Make Something Accessible to Everyone -- Adrian Roselli

  "There are many people who think making a web site that passes WCAG 2.2 at Level AA makes it accessible. I've documented many cases where that's not true, as have others, some for years now."

• Reflections on TPAC 2025 - Green Web Foundation

  "Attending TPAC allowed me to gather a heap of insight into the process of building things into the web platform - be that via standards, guidelines, or browser features. I left with many seeds of ideas which I hope to plant over the coming months both through my personal work and my work with the Green Web Foundation."