Every day, regarding the web, is a walk along two lines:

Must try to make the web better, in any way possible.

and

Burn it all and walk away.

Neither is it for the weak in Spirit. For, being Black in America oftentimes means living in and loving a country, that does not love us back. You may take exception to my premise but you cannot discount my experience.

– LeVar Burton

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

Plain text > all of your proprietary faves

Updated Windows -> Chrome session destroyed

Fuck it. This is my opportunity to demote Chrome to a YouTube and testing container.

Time to get Firefox up and running.

“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.

via Julia Salazar

There are good things on Facebook!

Sure. The trains run on time.

… the great social network (the web itself)

– Brent Simmons

The elder-blog is a direct contrast to the idea of truly blogging for now where posts are of the moment, disposable.

– Colin Walker, An Ongoing Conversation

When you break things up, you do this because you want to update things idenpenent of each other.

– Eivind Hjertnes, Micro arcitecture

Eivind is talking about this as a developer but this strategy has worked well for me in general. Work, hobbies, and more.

twitter is not a good platform for discourse

– Sarah Z

Lack of clarity and context is best for shallow, lightweight statements. Got something big to say as part of a possibly public discussion? Post it to your blog.

An incoming Harvard freshman, a 17 year old Palestinian boy, had his visa cancelled & was deported because US officials searched his phone/laptop & said his friends had social media posts that were critical of the US.

– Sana Saeed

The US will no longer attract the best.

She barely knew how to Google, and yet here she was, browsing Wikipedia articles and D&D fansites.

– Antoine H. via Twitter

A brilliant story, wonderfully told.

App Launch Map – Spend more time developing your app

This goes right onto my wishlist and the newsletter is an easy subscription decision.

I’d explain more but instead you should listen to Aleen herself:

Spend more time working on your app.

We should expect Apple to lead the industry on this front, but in fact, they’re far behind.

– John Gruber, Siri, Privacy, and Trust

The Jobs quote is devastating.

Tumblr > Gutenberg

My unpopular opinion: it’s a testimony to the Clintons’ extraordinarily hardball political acumen that they’ve been subjected to these fever dream theories for 30 years and go-along-to-get-along Obama never was.

– John Gruber

Meanwhile:

As I get older, and hopefully that will be possible, if I am asked about The Great Troubles of our time I will only be able to say one true thing:

We watched.

I’m like:

I’ll never ruin my blog by even using the words Boris Johnson!

And then I’m like:

ah shit who am I kidding

Taika Waititi is returning to the many worlds of Thor.

– Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter

A VERY GOOD DAY 😭😭😭😭

Nationwide raids to sweep up undocumented families for deportation are scheduled to begin Sunday, homeland security officials said

America: Land of the Free

A vulnerability in the Mac Zoom Client allows any malicious website to enable your camera without your permission.

– Jonathan Leitschuh, Zoom Zero Day

Yikes.

… small groups of deeply passionate people can often be more productive than large groups of casually interested people.

– John Green, Why Are Humans Suddenly Getting Better at Tetris?

In which John Green continues to be good at the whole words thing.

There’s no doubt that the Russians did interfere in the election. And I think the interference, although not yet quantified, if fully investigated would show that Trump didn’t actually win the election.

– Jimmy Carter