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The online ad industry is a massive con job and it's does tremendous damage to the climate because of its hugely wasteful activities.
Still love this ravpower charger. Have been using it as my main travel charger for 18 months. 45W seems to be a sweet spot for power and size. This is the most portable, flattest charger I’ve been able to find:
This rollout was a huge team effort and I’m so excited about the future it’ll enable. Expect to see more when we rollout Polaris v6, including a public Figma UI kit, but for now, here’s more about the update.
attention. theft. (more here if that term intrigues you )
Styling Complex Labels A nice article about styling form labels to make the information easy to understand for all visitors to your site.
Best redesign of the year goes to... the text-only NPR site! My source of news for the last 12 months.
@eaton Have you checked out - I'm just getting looped into that community. I bet folks there might have ideas/thoughts.
Just watched “On the rocks” and realized how much I miss movies, cities, meeting new people. And how much I wanna be like Bill Murray when I get old.
Wait, where is cancel culture? To say Sacha Baron Cohen's earlier film was racist and inexcusably exploitative is an understatement. It was cruel. He went to a dirt poor village in Romania, paid them a pittance and duped them into this. I'm not over it.
NEW PODCAST: #ContentStrategy starts with people. Hear @carriehd explain the ways of getting the right information to the right people, while meeting audience needs and the business goals. #contentmodeling
Data as Property? Scholars, activists, technologists and presidential candidates have all proposed data governance reforms to address the social ills generated by the technology industry and develop true alternatives. Interesting essay via @syllabus_tweets
The Session
I wrote a lot of words about Discord, which I think looks a lot like the future of the internet
Back on a paper bullet journal but this methodology is still proving to work well while my brain is completely melted by pandemic panic
This was our very first website:
“AI is going to take over the world!!!” AI:
Statistics and the replication crisis
http://nagualero.com/gear-i-use
On: Context and caveats By @hankchizljaw
“I don’t want recommendations. I want content that I want. In other words, I want a content library.” Me too
New: The Power Of Unfinished • how to get more done and create work that gets noticed #ux #design #productivity
★ The Daring Fireball Election Desk Is Calling It: Biden Wins
The day after the 2016 election I was in Berlin giving a talk about the bias towards bad quantitative data. You can still watch it if you love to see a combination of hangover, despair, and irony.
Well, the cats outta that bag... yup, Chrome is working on ***CONTAINER QUERIES***. Squeee. If you'd like to sign up to test the prototype (when it's ready) and suggest new features, fill out this form!
It is time for us to change the way we involve clients and stakeholders in the design process, How to Make Design Approval Painless
The CMS UI Database: Cool project by @gadgetopia.
A recent in-depth analysis looks at the pressures and compromises faced by today's #AI teams. Accenture AI's @bobirakova and @ruchowdh explain.
The Design Systems team designs, builds, and maintains tools that help document visual systems and abstract design patterns, and enables more effective design communication.
Still thinking about @LMSacasas's framing of the "digital city" and the "analog city" as a way to think through online life and political consciousness. Taylor, Birkerts, Postman, + more here:
TIL a bill proposing a tax credit for those who volunteer time to open source has been introduced in the NY State Assembly every legislative session since 2009 but has never made it out of committee:
I'd love to see OSS included in Congress' definition of "infrastructure" next time they make a major infrastructure investment
The "iceberg" model: a powerful way to think about systemic change. We tend to focus on events above the waterline but the key levers for change are mental models at deepest level. Here's an "iceberg canvas" to help identify each level: By @Sys_innovation
Muslim immigrants behind the vaccine that could beat COVID-19? You love to see it: "Also in 2019, Dr. Sahin was awarded the Mustafa Prize, a biennial Iranian prize for Muslims in science and technology."
I didn’t think that my first mention in English Wikipedia would be under a “Controversy” heading, but thinking again, that makes a lot of sense in context: 🤪
🗓 Save the date! Our last #ShopifyPartnerTownHall of the year is coming up this December 3/4 Come wrap up the year with us and stick around for a long-awaited announcement on Sections Everywhere 🤩 Register now >>
Some teams end up leaving their waterfalls for whirlpools. They iterate to nowhere in particular. There's no real strategy, and no holistic end-to-end thinking. For them, it's a random walk (punctuated by stand ups and sprints)
From the archive: What you know about information architecture, might not be true - #Over10YearsBlogging
Many teams treat the meta-work as something you do on top of the "real" work. There's no time. But if you keep at it -- take the leap of faith, and carve out the time and energy -- there's a good chance your team will benefit.
Fourteen years ago, I wrote about "The First 85%." I still believe in this idea, and we're addressing that at Episerver with a new connection to @DivvyHQ.
“‘It’s not fair,’ said Shekinah, 17, who, after weeks trying to stay connected to classes through her cellphone, was finally able to get online regularly again last month through a Wi-Fi hot spot provided by the school.” —
getting back to sharing design research via Instagram stories ⚡️⚡️ 🏎 🏎
@sdw is your friend.
I've been using Tailscale to connect to my personal machines, but I just discovered subnet routing -- which means I could ostensibly connect a whole AWS VPC to Tailscale...
OKAY it's HERE 😛 ~ the ultimate doc for ~ ✹ ✹ CrEaToR iNsPo ✹ ✹ featuring links to websites, sounds, interactions, and portfolio links ~~ I will be adding to this doc so BOOOOKMARK IT ~~
#Drupal people, does anyone know how to alter the Big Pipe placeholder? It's a span everywhere but it'd be useful to be able to add custom markup per block (not just CSS styling) to avoid CLS or add skeleton 'loading' content. I found but nothing else.
For all your Jonesing For Hanging Out In A Coffeeshop While You Read needs, via @sparrowpost
We need metrics, but we also need to increase the concentration of moral & ethical thinking on technical teams. We need to figure out how to hire, train, and retain talent to that effect. That's how you find and prevent harms that metrics don't capture.
Apple will lower its commission to 15% if you make under one million US dollars per year. For small developers, this is fantastic news and overall it’s a good step in the right direction. In the bigger picture, more steps need to follow.
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