Weekend Reading — $ git commit mRNA.seq
This week we overpay for a Substack subscription, Figma becomes the new gaming platform, and we meet a criminal dog.
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Weekend Reading — $ git commit mRNA.seqThis week we overpay for a Substack subscription, Figma becomes the new gaming platform, and we meet a criminal dog.
you oughta know recorder - Kathleen Cameron This Tiktok is now my favorite cover of “you oughta know” (click this link to watch it) 🪑 Design ObjectiveShreyas Doshi 👇 This is a great way to tell a visual story in a Twitter thread. Also how to avoid solving the wrong problem.
Substack's UI and 1Password just cost me $2,023 What a weird UX glitch.
🧰 Tools of the TradeInside a viral website A peek behind the istheshipstillstuck.com, a viral meme website. Things that worked really well:
And things that didn’t:
Next.js Notion Starter Kit Use Notion as your CMS and Next.js as the front end. lqip-modern Resizes images into Low Quality Image Placeholders (LQIP) that you can inline into HTML/CSS. Seems easier to use than blurhush. Figma's Interactive Components Were Not Designed For This Eventually everything turns into a gaming platforms. These designers figured out how to turn Figma into Minesweeper, Battleship, and Go. You probably don’t need A/B testing You need scale for A/B tests, and it’s frustrating how many people don’t get that. Sometimes they avoid the topic by using time instead (“we’ll run it for two weeks”):
unfortunately.io AI-generated rejections emails, because let’s admit it, rejecting people sucks. What's next? Deep-fake AI that breaks up with your ex, or fires an employee over Zoom? permission.site A simple site to test permission-related UI for web APIs. 📈 Business SideMatt Lerner 👇 The interesting part in this story is choosing what data to focus on:
The six principles of lifestyle businesses You can run your own software company without venture backing. (There’s pros and cons to either one) This article is about what kind of business you'll want to run. 🔒 Locked DoorsPHP’s Git server hacked to add backdoors to PHP source code The latest software supply chain attack hits PHP directly, by adding a backdoor and committing the changes to PHP’s Git repository:
How America’s surveillance networks helped the FBI catch the Capitol mob This is a chilling read:
⭐ None of the AboveSee A Satellite Tonight Find out how to see satellites in the night sky, no telescope required.” There’s a Better Way to Date Online—If You Like Trains NUMTinder is a Facebook dating group exclusively for people who are really into public transit. The rules of engagement make it so different from other dating apps:
Stanford Scientists Reverse Engineer Moderna Vaccine, Post Code on Github How about that? Stanford scientists saved drops of discarded COVID-19 vaccine, reverse engineered it, and posted the mRNA sequence on GitHub. How mRNA Technology Could Change the World Is this possible?
Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities Pedestrian and bike friendly cities are the future we need:
After crime plummeted in 2020, Baltimore will stop drug, sex prosecutions Less policing and more involvement from social workers:
Cy Popps 👇 What does “The Spectrum” mean? Do some people have “more Autism” than others? What’s a better way to describe the individual experience? Sarah Kurchak 👇 This thread is also fascinating for a different reason. As a way to understand and relate from personal experience:
A stray dog kept stealing a stuffed unicorn from a Dollar General, so animal control bought it for him Adorable! “Due to becoming a famous criminal, Sisu and his unicorn, were quickly adopted one day later, according to animal services“ 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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