quotes
Wherever the beam landed, there was a sound like wind blowing through leaves.
– A government report on the farm in China that breeds six billion cockroaches a year.
Kottke’s post about the health of blogging has (predictably) fared well on my tl. My favourite part:
When I log into Facebook, I see Facebook. When I visit your blog, I see you.
– Kari
… because my content belongs to me, gosh dang it.
– Cheri Baker, from “What is This?"
This is a great way of representing the IndieWeb aspect of your online identity.
(Cheri on Micro.blog: @cheri)
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.
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… 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.