ProtonMail’s calendar is now in beta. This a piece of software for which I would be willing to drop Fantastical, and Fantastical is one of my favourite apps.
Days since last Facebook scandal
One for your bookmarks. A reminder that no amount of good things people get from Facebook should make us ignore the far-reaching damage it is doing to our species.
It’s like smoking cigarettes and pretending that’s a fine thing to do.
Developing your thoughts and a clear position in a written form that you are comfortable with people reading and using as the basis of a discussion is a terrific quality bar for those thoughts.
– Stephen Kuenzli, Key practices for achieving large professional goals
Reddit is finally eating itself alive.
In the real world, free web services cannot be sustained without great compromise to the service itself.
Just like with Today I Learned, I’m going to disappear for the holidays. Bye!
I thought Keybase looked like a good idea. I noticed people on Micro.blog getting excited about it.
This post has changed my mind.
It appears Chris Coyne and Max Krohn are yet another pair of tech bros who haven’t got a fucking clue what they’re doing.
“Priority! Mud room!”
– Merlin Mann, Mud Rooms, Red Letters, and Real Priorities
I can hear this in the style of “Bill Cosby innocent!” 😂
Students had arrived legally in the US on student visas, but the school they were lured into was a fake creation of DHS agents, so they lost their immigration status. Now ICE is deporting them on that basis.
Starter video for learning about mental health: How Big a Problem is Mental Illness?
I’m going to stop posting for now. It’s too difficult to post to my blog in a way that isn’t clunky and feels time-consuming.
I’ll continue to post updates related to @til and if there is any other update worth sharing but my regular blogging is stopping until it’s easier.
✌🏻
The elder-blog is a direct contrast to the idea of truly blogging for now where posts are of the moment, disposable.
People Will Not Join Your New Social Network
We should be careful before copying everything from Twitter.
Manton had more to say about this today and I agree with him. Whether those of us who are driven in any way by ideological motives like it or not, the fact remains that copy-pasting functionality from the existing behemoths is a complete waste of time.
Why would anyone bother with your new thing if it just does what the existing thing does, only with fewer people? That is not an effective way to motivate people and we’re never going to change anything if we fail to understand how people are motivated to make changes in their lives.
Does anybody read/use Today I Learned?
Youtube’s new Don’t recommend channel option might be its best feature… ever?
Reminders for Microblogvember:
- Just post once per day with the prompt word.
- Hashtags are irrelevant.
- Keywords are irrelevant.
- Longer posts are OK.
- There are a few spare days if you start late.