Weekend Reading — ⚔️ Pick fewer battles than that
This week we rate coffee drinks, guess the code creator, start a goat farm, reimagine the Spotify UI, and downscale our battle plan.
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Weekend Reading — ⚔️ Pick fewer battles than thatThis week we rate coffee drinks, guess the code creator, start a goat farm, reimagine the Spotify UI, and downscale our battle plan.
I don't follow many people on Instagram, so my timeline is very short and a couple of minutes into using the app, the algorithm runs out of friend updates, and starts surfacing content I engaged with before. Mostly pictures of kittens. As much as 80% of my Instagram usage is looking at pictures of adorable kittens and trading images with the wife. She sent me this adorable kitten today, and I'm sharing it with you. Enjoy Kittens Instagram. 🪑 Design Objectivebadidea Nostalgia be like:
Ethical Design Guide Resources for creating ethical products that don't cause harm. 🧰 Tools of the Trademailbrew.com Mailbrew wants to tame your newsletter subscriptions, feeds, and Twitter consumption. One daily digest to rule them all. A Second Conversation with Werner Vogels This talk is mostly about S3, perhaps AWS's most pivotal service:
Vale Vale is a linter for prose. Or Grammarly for your CI/CD. It works from the command line, Visual Studio Code, and GitHub Actions. trailofbits/graphtage Semantic diff for JSON, XML, HTML, YAML and CSV. react-hot-toast This is so far my favorite toast UI. It works no better or worse than other toast UIs, but with a delightful API. The clarity of intent in function names ( facet.ai Content-based image editing:
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📓 Lines of CodeThe Kilobyte’s Gambit Chess game in 1024 bytes of JavaScript. Why is it so hard to see code from 5 minutes ago? Do you undo recent changes to remember what the code looked like a few minutes ago? Why can’t IDEs do that for us? DoesNotExist.codes This game shows you a piece of code, and you have to guess if it was written by a person or GPT-2. As you can see, I’m not very good at guessing. Or maybe there's some other lesson here … Consensus of travel direction is achieved by simple copying, not voting, in free-ranging goats What if we named consensus algorithms based on the animal behavior they mimic? Buffalo instead of quorum, Goat instead of leader-follower. Goat Ops “I should quit my job and become a goat farmer”
Zac Sweers “Debugging” 🧑🤝🧑 TeamworkThings your manager might not know If you never managed people before, it's not obvious how to manage your manager. Julia explains how to do that:
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📈 Business SideMatt Turck That's the best framing:
(re: Square, Inc. Announces Plans To Acquire \n Majority Ownership Stake In TIDAL and Oatly, Vegan-Food Firm Backed by Jay-Z and Oprah, Mulls IPO) Valuables Still confused about NFTs? There's a platform where you can “buy“ the very first tweet for a mere $2.5M. If you have that money to spend, it’s the ultimate flex. And also you get to pollute the earth but claim “it’s for the art.”
🔒 Locked DoorsAt Least 30,000 U.S. Organizations Newly Hacked Via Holes in Microsoft’s Email Software The cyber theatre is heating up:
Nik “Your threat model is not my threat model, hospital edition” 🏛 PolitechsArizona advances bill forcing Apple and Google to allow Fortnite-style alternative payment options Arizona doesn’t want Apple and Google charging 30% tax on Arizona businesses:
🤖 Machine InelligenceNew AI ‘Deep Nostalgia’ brings old photos, including very old ones, to life This is both amazing and creepy. ⭐ None of the Abovefiona “if i had it my way, this is what spotify's design system would look like” Garen J. Torikian “Glad they finally put an end to that time traveling monster. Did you know he’s not even a real doctor?” A Cephalopod Has Passed a Cognitive Test Designed For Human Children Scientists tried the Stanford marshmallow experiment on Cuttlefish. But first, they have to determine Cuttlefish food preferences:
Killings by Police Declined after Black Lives Matter Protests “A study also found body-camera use and community policing increased in places with the most active movements” These parts of L.A. barely felt the winter coronavirus surge. Here is why they were spared
Kim Reece “An extremely important time management message,” LGBT Identification Rises to 5.6% in Latest U.S. Estimate The average doesn’t tell the entire story. Only 2.0% of Baby Boomers identify as LGBT, contrasted with 15.9% of Gen Z. The biggest increase are people who identify as bisexual from 0.3% of Boomers to 11.5% of Gen Z. itmegreggy “gonna tell my kids this was daft punk” Did you enjoy this issue of Weekend Reading? I want more people to discover my newsletter. Can you help by sharing it with a friend? |
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