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Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Dara Sharif, the Root: Donald Trump ramped up his efforts Wednesday night to demonize the four progressive, freshman congresswomen informally known as “the Squad,” reveling in a raucous crowd’s chants of “Send her back! Send her back!” in reference to his latest target, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). Despite a House vote…
Brad Frost · Brad Frost
This is a great read about how the Shopify team designed and grew their design system over the last two years. Note the focus on culture building, communication, and curation. Great stuff! Read: Tracking Polaris – Shopify UX
Jay Parkinson MD+MPH · Jay Parkinson, MD, MPH
Urgent care and telehealth exist because PCPs made themselves inaccessible. Both urgent care and telehealth are symptoms of dysfunction. Healthcare, at its core, is just communication. Now that humans communicate with far more modalities than just in-person meetings, why should some doctors say “I only talk with you…
Seth Godin's Blog · Seth Godin
The spread of TED talks means that more and more people are being put on stage and told to memorize their talk. This almost always leads to failure. It’s not because people memorize too much, it’s because they don’t memorize enough. Watch a great performance and you’ll see no artifacts of memorization. Instead, you…
bunnie's blog · bunnie
When I heard that ARM was to stop doing business with Huawei, I was a little bit puzzled as to how that worked: ARM is a British company owned by a Japanese conglomerate; how was the US able to extend its influence beyond its citizens and borders? A BBC report indicated that ARM had concerns […]
Stephen Wolfram Blog · Stephen Wolfram
The first workshop to define what is now the Santa Fe Institute took place on October 5–6, 1984. I was recently asked to give some reminiscences of the event, for a republication of a collection of papers derived from this and subsequent workshops. It was a slightly dark room, decorated with Native American…
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Last year, I wrote a couple of articles for the Sweet Setup with my recommendations for great apps to shoot and edit photos on your iPhone. I wanted to be thorough, so I downloaded a couple of dozen apps to choose from for each review. And, just about every time, I was asked to confirm […]
Schneier on Security · Bruce Schneier
It used to be that surveillance cameras were passive. Maybe they just recorded, and no one looked at the video unless they needed to. Maybe a bored guard watched a dozen different screens, scanning for something interesting. In either case, the video was only stored for a few days because storage was expensive.…
We Make Money Not Art · Regine
The untold story of digital cash and its creators—from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Brent Simmons: Though I don’t discount Catalyst’s usefulness — we will get lots of apps new to the Mac — the real news this week was about SwiftUI and the Combine framework. This, finally, is a new way of writing apps, and it’s based on Swift and not on Objective-C. It’s very much not from NeXT. […]◉
kottke.org · Jason Kottke
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Steven Aquino, TechCrunch: [Sarah Herrlinger, director of Global Accessibility Policy & Initiatives at Apple] demoed Voice Control to me, and it works as advertised despite our setting containing a lot of ambient noise. The gist of it is simple enough: You give your MacBook or iMac commands, such as “Open Mail”…
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Changing my Mind about AI, Universal Basic Income, and the Value of Data In this piece I’ll be talking about two particular bits of rhetoric that have found an apparently unlikely partnership in the past five years. The impending obsolescence of humanity locked eyes across the room with a utopian vision of…
Rands in Repose · rands
It would appear there are not a lot of written words here recently. Appearances are deceiving. There are lots of words and they look like this: I’m winding up a three-week vacation which has been focused on getting the next book in shape. My definition of “in shape” is “I can kind’a sort’a see the… More
Monday Note - Medium · Frederic Filloux
Idle Words
You know how it happens. You try to secure one Congressional campaign, and then another, and pretty soon you can't stop. You'll fly across the country just to brief a Green Party candidate in a district the Republicans carried by 60 points. You want more, more, always looking for that next fix. This is the situation…
Above Avalon · Neil Cybart
Apple’s ecosystem is massive. Approximately a billion people are using more than 1.4 billion Apple devices. Even as iPhone sales decline, Apple is bringing tens of millions of new people into its ecosystem each year. However, we are getting to a point where it is prudent to begin thinking about what user growth…
Coding Horror · Jeff Atwood
When I wrote about App-pocalypse Now in 2014, I implied the future still belonged to the web. And it does. But it’s also true that the web has changed a lot in the last 10 years, much less the last 20 or 30.Websites have gotten
Zeldman on Web & Interaction Design · Jeffrey Zeldman
I’M LEARNING new tech and it’s hard. Maybe you’re in the same boat. Through the rosy lens of memory, learning HTML and Photoshop back in the day was a breeze. It wasn’t, really. And CSS, when it came along in 1996, was even tougher to grasp—in part because it was mostly theoretical, due to poor […] The post You got…
The Morning News
Pleasing urban geometry in photos of Calpe, Spain, by Ludwig Favre. ↩︎ Behance View Post →
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
even Taylor Swift can't top Old Town Road on the charts
A Whole Lotta Nothing · mathowie
I live in a ~2,500sqft house built in 2005, and it’s given me nothing but problems when it comes to wifi. My home office (where internet enters the house) is at one extreme corner of the first floor and no matter what I tried, the second floor’s opposite end of the house never could quite … Continue reading Tips on…
Google Webmaster Central Blog · Google Webmaster Central
Wondermark · David Malki
Observations on film art · bordwellblog
DB here: The Criterion Channel is up and streaming in the US and Canada as of today. You can browse the offerings here. Some basic questions are answered here. For help activating your account, try here. Using Apple TV, I found it very easy to get access. I was immediately and flawlessly playing The Big […]
KK Lifestream · Kevin Kelly
Recomendo: issue no. 135 Continue reading →
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
The Oxygen of Amplification Offering extremely candid comments from mainstream journalists, this report provides a snapshot of an industry [news media] caught between the pressure to deliver page views, the impulse to cover manipulators and “trolls,” and the disgust (expressed in interviewees’ own words) of…
Roughly Drafted · DED
Music streaming service Spotify has elevated its disputes with Apple into a full blown anti-trust complaint filed with the European Commission. But Spotify’s public case, as detailed on its website, is misleading and covers up the basic reality that Spotify wants to do business at Apple’s expense without paying for it.
John Herrman · By JOHN HERRMAN
Adults are terrified about what their children are seeing online. Should they be?
Krebs on Security · BrianKrebs
Payroll software provider Apex Human Capital Management suffered a ransomware attack this week that severed payroll management services for hundreds of the company's customers for nearly three days. Faced with the threat of an extended outage, Apex chose to pay the ransom demand and begin the process of restoring…
Backlinko · Brian Dean
I’m SUPER excited to announce the release of the SEO Marketing Hub. This free resource library covers over 35 key topics — including Schema, sitemaps, SEO software, content audits, link bait, rich snippets, and lots more. You can check out the brand new SEO Marketing Hub right here: Visit The SEO Marketing Hub All in…
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
ColouriseSG ‘Colourise your black and white photos – A deep learning colouriser prototype specifically for old Singaporean photos.’ (tags: color colour photography ai deep-learning ml colouriser colourisation singapore history black-and-white photos) The Soothing Promise of Our Own Artisanal Internet | WIRED “Eat…
Signal v. Noise · Jeremy Daer
Did you receive this email from us today? Subject: Basecamp 3 security alert: You must set a new password ⚠️ You’re not alone! You’ve done nothing wrong, and you’re in good company. 1 in 20 Basecamp users got this email alert. Here’s the full story. Last month’s mass-login attack was a sobering reminder that…
Observations on film art · bordwellblog
Sir Alfred wants YOU. DB here: Excellent news for film lovers! The new Criterion Channel has a launch date: 8 April for the US and Canada. Go here for details. There you’ll learn that Criterion is already offering a series you can tap into right now. Every Wednesday until launch there will be a new Movie of […]
Google Webmaster Central Blog · Google Webmaster Central
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
remarkably unusual story of how Gumroad's founder turned a VC-funded startup into a "lifestyle" business
A Whole Lotta Nothing · mathowie
This Emoji Mosaic site is really incredible. I don’t know how someone on a free github install created something so magical, but it takes any image and turns it into a mosaic made up of emoji. It works best with high contrast photos of recognizable things, so I fed it a bunch of plain giant … Continue reading Emoji…
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Opinion | The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class – The New York Times Pankaj Mishra wastes no time getting the boot into the ineptitude of the ruling-class Brexiteers. it’s glorious Politicians and journalists in Ireland are understandably aghast over the aggressive ignorance of English Brexiteers.…
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
_Amazon Aurora: On Avoiding Distributed Consensus for I/Os, Commits, and Membership Changes_, SIGMOD ’18 One of the more novel differences between Aurora and other relational databases is how it pushes redo processing to a multi-tenant scale-out storage service, purpose-built for Aurora. Doing so reduces networking…
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Colin Devroe (via Brent Simmons): This isn’t the first nor the last article to cover the creation of the RSS standard, its rise to relative popularity with Google Reader, and its subsequent fall from popularity. But the big point that many of these articles dismiss lightly or directly omit is that RSS is still used…
Stories by Buster Benson on Medium · Buster Benson
Neil Gaiman's Journal · noreply@blogger.com (Neil Gaiman)
It's been a strange year. I've only blogged a couple of times, mostly because I've not had anything to write about except one thing, the hugeness of making Good Omens. We wrapped the shooting part mostly in March, and so everything we've been doing since is "post-production".This means we (and when I say "we" in this…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Asymco · Horace Dediu
For the last two years I’ve been studying the transportation economy and introducing the idea of Micromobility. Simply, Micromobility promises to have the same effect on mobility as microcomputing had on computing. Bringing transportation to many more and allowing them to travel further and faster. I use the term…
Lefsetz Letter · bob
ReMastered: Who Shot the Sheriff This is utterly fantastic. Solters has been bugging me for weeks to watch this, but I’ve been too caught up in my life, and my streaming queue…there’s “Mrs. Maisel” and “Roma” and the Boss on Broadway, but I don’t think any of those can capture the zeitgeist, can focus my […]
Search Engine Land · Barry Schwartz
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