Gisteravond ben ik eindelijk begonnen aan de My Dad Wrote a Porno podcast. Fantastisch, vooral dankzij Alice Levine.
“Easily passes the six laugh test”, zou @KermodeMovie zeggen. Alleen kijken mensen in de trein wel raar naar je om als je de hele tijd zit te grinniken en regelmatig zomaar in lachen uitbarst.
Tim Harford: Some meetings are to transfer information, some to allow discussion and some to reach a decision or resolve a problem. There are committee meetings that exist to satisfy some rule or regulation. I am on such a committee, and find it useful as a reminder not to sign up for any other committees. Then there are the meetings that exist purely for the sake of meeting. Don’t dismiss them; there’s nothing wrong with consenting adults enjoying a coffee break together.
Chris Shiflett:
The best time to make a personal website is 20 years ago. The second best time to make a personal website is now.
Why We All Need a Personal Website – Plus Practical Tips for How to Build One.
This article almost got lost among all of the 144 (!) browser tabs on my phone. In it, Benedict Evans highlights how a few different technical developments are coming together allowing computers to see The combination of a flood of cheap image sensors coming out of the smartphone supply chain with computer vision based on machine learning means that all sorts of specialized inputs are being replaced by imaging plus Machine Learning.
In Put down the self-help books. Resilience is not a DIY endeavour, Michael Ungar explains which factors are important for personal resilience: Striving for personal transformation will not make us better when our families, workplaces, communities, health-care providers and governments fail to provide us with sufficient care and support. The science shows that all the internal resources we can muster are seldom of much use without a nurturing environment. Furthermore, if those resources are not immediately at hand, we are better off trying to change our world to gain those resources than we are trying to change ourselves.
De ijsgrot bij Chamonix is bijzonder. Maar onderweg er naartoe maakt vooral indruk hoeveel de gletsjer (Mer de Glace) is gekrompen de afgelopen decennia…
Craig Newmark, nerd en oprichter van Craigslist, over social media: "Outrage is profitable. Most online outrage is faked for profit" Maar hij blijft ervan overtuigd dat het internet toch een positieve ontwikkeling is: "It allows people of goodwill to get together and work together for common good. Bad actors are much louder, they make for more sensational news and we’re seeing a period of that now. The US, in a way, is lucky.
Just read the W3C Ethical Web Principles: The web should be a platform that helps people and provides a net positive social benefit. As we continue to evolve the web platform, we must therefore consider the ethical implications of our work. The web must be for good. 👆
Cory Doctorow vat op Boing Boing onderzoek van Citizen Lab samen in ‘How Wechat censors images in private chat’: Wechat maintains a massive index of the MD5 hashes of every image that Chinese censors have prohibited. When a user sends another user an image that matches one of these hashes, it's recognized and blocked at the server before it is transmitted to the recipient, with neither the recipient or the sender being informed that the censorship has taken place.
Alex Russell (@slightlylate) merkte op dat mensen regelmatig tegen hem zeggen dat hij niet zo bezeten hoeft te doen over web performance, want ‘op hun telefoon werkt het prima’. Maar niet iedere telefoon is hetzelfde, laat hij zien:
Op 28 en 29 september vindt IndieWebCamp Amsterdam plaats. Zet ’t in je agenda!
Hoe je verhalen vertelt hangt af van wie je bent, en in welke context jij je bevindt. In this insightful, funny 99U talk, Slack’s (..) Anna Pickard explains her approach to giving the workplace chat app its voice, endearing it to millions of users. From finding unlikely places (like error messages) to show authenticity, to the significance of naming product features, Anna shows us why words matter in product design, and how to choose your moments to wield them.
In 2009 onderzochten twee economen de hoeveelheid nieuw gebouwde wegen en het aantal gereden kilometers in verschillende Amerikaanse steden. En wat bleek: If a city had increased its road capacity by 10 percent between 1980 and 1990, then the amount of driving in that city went up by 10 percent. If the amount of roads in the same city then went up by 11 percent between 1990 and 2000, the total number of miles driven also went up by 11 percent.
Soon, satellites will be able to watch you everywhere all the time. Can privacy survive?
Commercial satellite imagery is currently in a sweet spot: powerful enough to see a car, but not enough to tell the make and model; collected frequently enough for a farmer to keep tabs on crops’ health, but not so often that people could track the comings and goings of a neighbor. This anonymity is deliberate. US federal regulations limit images taken by commercial satellites to a resolution of 25 centimeters, or about the length of a man’s shoe. (Military spy satellites can capture images far more granular, although just how much more is classified.)
Brent Simmons is druk bezig met de nieuwe versie van NetNewsWire. En daar zal het nieuws dat jij volgt nooit algoritmisch geordend gaan worden. Want: These kinds of algorithms optimize for engagement, and the quickest path to engagement is via the drugs outrage and anger — which require, and generate, bigger and bigger hits. This is what Twitter and Facebook are about — but it’s not right for NetNewsWire. The app puts you in control.
Ton Zylstra maakt een belangrijk punt:
If you make a statement about someone or something other than yourself or your personal opinions, you need to back it up with a link to supporting material.
Screenshots van webpagina’s of tweets zijn onvoldoende, want makkelijk te faken.