I went from 33.6kbps dial-up to speeds of 1Mb/s on Rogers Wave. Incredible!
– James Koole, Getting Back to an Independent Web
A glorious aspect of the open web is this: people telling stories.
I went from 33.6kbps dial-up to speeds of 1Mb/s on Rogers Wave. Incredible!
– James Koole, Getting Back to an Independent Web
A glorious aspect of the open web is this: people telling stories.
Google-backed startup Mobvoi just announced TicPods Free
– TicPods Free are like AirPods for Android
This is both a terrible name and ripe for numerous mocking from the Apple punditry. Still, I hope I’ll be able to pre-order them.
I always underestimate how long something is going to take.
– Hank Green in How to Stop Being Late Forever (includes bonus homescreen!)
Same Hank… same.
app.net is on the way …
Coolest use of colors to actually help people.
– Jen Scharl stumbled upon brilliant design in public transport.
… in city centers, buses and trains are often the best way to get around, which presents a challenge for people who use wheelchairs or with other mobility needs.
– Rio Akasaka, introducing “wheelchair accessible” routes for Google Maps.
👏
… Glitch has delivered an easier way for coders to create on the web right from the start, with things like real-time collaborative editing, instant deployment and automatic secure hosting.
If you get tired of just looking at the Internet, the Chromebook Tab 10 can also run Android apps.
Adventurous wit aside, this is a decent summary of the new Chrome OS tablet.
At first glance micro.blog is like Twitter — a micro blogging service (clever name, eh?). But that isn’t all.
– How-to micro.blog, a micro.guide from @eli
A blog post greatly inspiring my thoughts for a blog post, à la the web.
Last year, Elon Musk personally urged workers not to unionize, and promised to provide them with free frozen yogurt if they listened to him.
But yay rockets amirite.
Is it just me or did the web used to use on more to refer to a subject;
they made a post on the ethics of X
… whereas now it refers to the place;
they made a post on Medium/Twitter/Facebook
Or is that entirely down to where my attention is drawn?
We need to care about stuff again. Caring is so underrated!
It is complicated, but appropriately so. Oftentimes that’s the difference between a UI that’s usable, or one that’s confusing, dangerous, and hard to trust.
– Andrew Schmidt, indirectly confronting Lazy Minimalism amidst useful advice for UX writers.
… he brought knives, and was scared away by students throwing their backpacks at him.
I mean… backpacks. Fuck guns.
Don’t tempt me Frodo!
– me everytime I see something that I want
Things I’m transferring manually since the built-in import/export functions aren’t playing well with each other:
Annoyingly the move to Wunderlist is temporary. :/
Marco Arment’s recent observation about software and how Apple appears to be continuing to decline made me think of something else I recently came across: Jared Sinclair’s post about Architecture.
If the web is a river, Micro.blog is water, where Twitter and Facebook are dams.
Understanding that Micro.blog is not an attempt to replace Twitter feature-for-feature is the key to understanding the whole idea.
Liverpool’s Camp And Furnace is holding an anti-Valentine’s Day event, “Burn Your Ex – Anti-Valentine’s Disco”. This is brilliant.
Jason Kottke writes about Jade Hameister in A woman’s place is at the South Pole
Reminder: if you’re spending any time making shitty comments on YouTube then you are wasting your life. Jade’s phenomenal burn reveals the stark contrast between her and those assholes.
Claire Field is going to talk about pain at a conference for the TM Society and I couldn’t be more proud, both as her fiancé and carer. Her hard work, unwavering compassion, and indomnitable spirit continue to astound me. 🙌
I encourage you to click the button at the bottom of this post and help Aleksandar Todorović break the law.
Three new things I have recently started using are making me happy:
As a Windows user I am actually relieved to have found all of these, especially with my current goals in mind.
M A N I A, the new Fall Out Boy album is pretty fucking good.