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Breaching the Trust Thermocline Is the Biggest Hidden Risk in Business
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It is a good advice to Just Don’t advice.
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Is the madness ever going to end?
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Everything Easy is hard again: »Let’s be more like that tortoise: diligent, direct, and purposeful.«
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The Python Switch Statement
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Paul Graham on early work.
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Dan Gelbart shows us his high precision (one micron!) CNC lathe and grinder.
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The modern days of the Inkwars
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On today’s menu: Videos of biking in urban environments.
Less Law - Mexico City Fixed Gear Legends
Hotline - Safa
La Jungla
Live Fast, Die Last
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On Lego Interface UX
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After a disrupting open letter from leading architets aimed at Autodesk and its bad performance, this inevitably hypothesis: «Fullstack is over»
As stated before: Silo-ing is the worst thing happening to the digital society.
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Things Unexpectedly Named After People
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«Do the Real Thing!»
An advice I myself fail to follow every so often.
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Consuming vs. Creating: «Most tech content is bullshit»
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«We’ve built a towering pile of shite». A wonderful rant about the deprived state of computer technology.
We now sometimes seem to do more troubleshooting than actual work.
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«The prevalence of a single, monocultural aesthetic».
On Corporate Memphis.
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«If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs»
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Paul Graham on the Maker’s Schedule.
On which schedule are you?
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Rob Reid tells us about Copyright Math in his 5 minute TED talk: «The 8 Billion iPod» (2012).
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Some great ideas by Joel Hooks: «My blog is a digital garden, not a blog»
Also the linked articles are worth a read.
Money Quote:
Being useful for me is the primary use case for this space on the internet. It’s not that I don’t care about you, but this is for me. It’s here so I can record what I think and know and preserve it in time and space.
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The beer bottle that doubled as a brick.
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A photographic race against time.
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It’s certainly an old article, but the lectures Rem Kohlhaas is giving us are still as valid as they were in 2016, if not even more so!
Money quote:
I’m actually more interested in communicating with people I disagree with than people I agree with.
What have we done the last years? With Trump’s first term coming to and end our world has shifted dramatically into a complete bizarre and unreal series of absurdities – and not in the good sense. We built walled gardens and silos, not to mention the filter bubbles of our own…
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Always good for a laugh: Americans pretending fair pay equals Socialism.
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Stop Using Encrypted Email
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«Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983»
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Ai Wei Wei on Berlin (de)
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Old CSS, New CSS.
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An performance artist named Simon Weckert, based in Berlin, has done an interesting project: He calls it “Hacking Google Maps”.
«99 second hand smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate virtual traffic jam in Google Maps. Through this activity, it is possible to turn a green street red which has an impact in the physical world by navigating cars on another route to avoid being stuck in traffic.»
Reclaim your city!
(But as it turns out the Google algorithms aren’t that easy too fool.)
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Banning Facial Recognition misses the point.
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Ligatures in programming fonts? Hell no!
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Stop that dumb infinity scrolling!
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Rule Thinkers In, Not Out
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The Efficiency-Destroying Magic of Tidying Up
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I hate it when you search on websites, then want to see a result in another tab, so you’re middle-clicking it. But god forbid you then want to use the pagination! Suddenly your search query becomes corrupted and invalid, and you have to search (inputting the thing, clicking go, …) again! Of course you’re now still on page one.
Also fuck searches where you can’t use the back button of your browser!
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Take that Mona Lisa down.
Money quote:
[…] the Mona Lisa was voted the ‘world’s most disappointing attraction’, beating out Checkpoint Charlie, the Spanish Steps, and that urinating boy in Brussels. If curators think that they are inspiring the next generation of art lovers, they are in fact doing the opposite. People come out of obligation, and leave discouraged.
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Simple does not mean ugly.
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Nice Twitterthread about language, grammar, and movie trivia.
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Apple decided to break UX again.
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Amusing website collecting articles on the gruesome Golang.
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J.S. Bach, presumably the best musician ever lived, was a kind of subversive figure.
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MIT proves that Da Vinci’s bridge design works.
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Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000s
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YouTube recommendations just work in a miraculous way.
Also I think I got a new favorite sport.
(Damn, just look at the production quality of something you probably even never heard of…!)
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“We are completely clueless about how long things should take.”
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WordPress? More like WordPain.
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Please don’t build any websites with endless scrolling behavior any more.
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And Microsoft Teams ain’t any better!
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Nope, sorry. Can’t join your Slack.