RT @iA: Roger Ailes: ‘The news is like a ship. If you take hands off the wheel, it pulls hard to the left.’
Saved links
A saved link is not an endorsement. It's just a thing I read or thought about reading.
RT @outline: Amazon is buying Whole Foods. The path to world domination continues.
What the studio has been/is up to: Who knew?
Public by @enigma_data connects people to data, to the facts and to the truth.
Gizra's new(ish) homepage iteration is fantastic. Shades of vintage content-focused design.…
If you're into design system stuff, you should 100% preorder @craftui's book:
Must-read: "A day without Javascript" —
RT @reichenstein: When Goldman Sachs puts so much energy into explaining blockchain, then…?
RT @jensimmons: The genius @rachelandrew just dropped an article on why we don’t need layout frameworks anymore, what to do instead:
RT @ozzydidact: “We aren’t witnessing the return of the paradigm championed by right wing populists — we are witnessing its death.”
Davek
RT @rachelandrew: A huge set of Grid docs I created for @MozDevNet starts here #aeadc
🤔 measuring a kitchen shouldn't be this satisfying...like, at all 🤔 → app by…
The self is not a stable thing – it creates itself every time it chooses to pay attention.
YES to @johnmaeda's Four Rules
Technical fabrics (including Schoeller) made for women
The first full review of the Handbook. What does a practitioner, @thoy make of it?
@druconfessions @Dries @gdemet @DrupalAssoc FFS, what do you think you're doing? Stop. Consider this aimed at you:
For the teams currently conducing money practices research in Myanmar. Surprisingly still fresh: cc @studio_d_rad
What if Jan Chipchase has actually written a self-help book?
Be Brave!
(if you want to feel like you're living in a VR SF novel, follow cryptocurrency activity)
“There can be no ‘mind over matter’ when we understand that mind is matter…” and matter is in mind.
RT @codinghorror: Fun DIY experiment with a single solar panel:
(Ghost 1.0)
And now the #Drupal 8 Layout Discovery is stable! Good news for contrib like Panels and a foundation future core UIs
“Haid is tall and slender with both a head- and beard-bun.”
P&G cut digital ad spending by $140m last quarter. No impact on revenue. [Via @BenedictEvans' weekly newsletter]
RT @fox: A follow up to the thread about the cost of activism. “Women will never advance doing community work”.
(Patreon, an incredible service, only becoming more important and impactful by the day)
(“All screen activities are linked to less happiness, and all nonscreen activities are linked to more happiness.”)
(“I know a poem is done when I can identify three distinct pleasures: linguistic, emotional and intellectual.)”
Faszinierend: Why Everyone Missed the Most Mind-Blowing Feature of Cryptocurrency
More on YouTube's out of control anti-ISIS campaign
on the increasing convergence of right and left
How chess and Brandon Marshall prepped Jets' Dexter McDougle for possible breakout year (via @darrylslater)
Why we terminated Daily Stormer.
Lovely essay by @craigmod that explores the twists and turns of making a beautiful book.
Technology evolves from raw, to complex, to simple. From fist, to hand axe, to hammer. Where is iA Writer today?
@iA Have you read Eames' banana leaf parable?
("There is nothing more human, more natural, more fundamental to our freedom than transporting ourselves by foot.")
RT @craigmod: (a website, viewable only if you are offline 👏👏👏 )
How hip-hop is introducing children to coding and technology via @theeconomist #music #tech…
Eureka: How @Outlier co-founder @abe1x launched a brand that’s creating the future of clothing
“using a foreign language gives people some emotional distance…that allowed them to take the more utilitarian action”
Herbie Hancock: “There are no mistakes, just chances to improvise.”
"it’s just as unconscionable when we’re the ones complicit in war crimes" - #mustread on Yemen by @NickKristof
How about a collaborative iA Writer for Web?
The “About Us” Page of Every Digital Media Agency - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
This story of her building a single engine airplane at 14 reminded me of that article I read abt young @addyosmani
Summer's over, back on my bullshit...
A great writeup on dealing with mental health issues through organising and habits. ❤️ @ctrlaltjustine.
I know it’s not exactly humble to say so, but I’m rather proud of the resource and the design. #csstdg4e
About “the fear of forgetting the pieces to solve the puzzle, the worry of putting them together all wrong”
(hard to imagine much of the goodness of the web today existing without A List Apart. Backed. (Patron'd?))
This was good
“Stop pretending you really know what AI is”
“… better or worse off when a 12-year-old can access [all] human sexuality down to every misogynist fantasy?”
Exactly 2 years ago I wrote a post on "Why I left the job in the world" I'm amazed to have had the opportunity to..
I'm reminded of @moia's prescient talk on the design of the Nokia N9:
RT @moia: I would have studied the #N9 harder #iphonex #wewouldsaythat #betternotjustdifferent #nokia #revisionist #anyway
Context around Putting Thought Into Things:
Find your design inspiration in nature and architecture—not in Apple’s or your competitor’s digital products.
“Organisations are increasingly putting visceral experience at the heart of how people learn” #ethnography #mrx
“They argue it'll hurt user experience and campaign targeting…”
A pretty fascinating read on the technicalities of Face ID and other biometric security precautions.
RT @studio_d_rad: We’ve broken down all the numbers behind our recent Kickstarter:
All of my writing is now accessible here → . I might have fixed two bugs in the meantime and introduced one, whoops!
“Words and the design process” by @bizsanford
Here’s the transcript of a talk I’ve been giving this year on technology, the web, and asking questions:
Great video review of the Apple Watch 3 “Edition” from @HODINKEE -
My next #AskPreethi question answered: "What programming language should I pick?"
How @Bellingcat geolocated the site of a mass execution by a commander in General Haftar's army #Libya #ICC
Cambridge evening soundtrack @nstructionco
Listen to Revisionist Radio by Construction #np on #SoundCloud
The new Wes Anderson trailer looks 🐶🙌❤️:
RT @iam_preethi: I wrote a post on how Ethereum works, explaining core components: State, accounts, transactions, blocks, gas, mining
There's a burnout epidemic. Is it time to start micro-dosing at work? -
Blog post: Drupal looking to adopt React
(fog appreciation society)
Drupal 8.4.0 with stable media+layout APIs, workflows, inline errors, date range support and various fixes available
I wrote about all of the things that #drupal governance will impact - including your community safety.
More officers die of suicide than die of shootings and traffic accidents combined. Commentary:
My top ten political books starter pack. No Chomsky or Huntington. Don’t @ me.
Ebooks on the blockchain?
Thank you @alexismadrigal for wrapping your head around this:
“The self doubt will never go away, but staying humble is the key to growth…”