Brent Toderian (city planning expert) explains that any city can transform its infrastructure from 🚘 focused to 🚲 focused: twitter.com/roelgroen…
Morning Glory
Morning mist.
Serenity Caldwell thinks that the 2018 iPad with Apple Pencil is the best bisection of technology and liberal arts on the market today.
She even created her entire video review on such an iPad.
This is an interesting development: Forget Congress. Facebook’s real problem is in Europe. - The Washington Post. Also see this Twitter thread.
On The Verge, professional internet quitte Paul Miller provides Facebook-quitting advice:
What are you going to do every 15 seconds with your thumbs if you quit?
Spoiler: He suggests boredom. But explains why.
Peak Zuck: “What’s a shadow profile?” / Boing Boing. Those Facebook shadow profiles are shady…
How to Use Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 Public DNS (And Why You Should). Done.
Deleted my Facebook account tonight. Feels good. #byebyeFacebook
A good, straightforward explanation on what the Best Lenses for Landscape Photography to Show Scale are.
Of course it’s content marketing for the linked courses, but that’s the web nowadays…
Grass Snakes
Last year, we learned that there is a sizable population of grass snakes in our area. Today the circumstances were perfect (sunny, high temperatures) to go out and search for them. And we found them! 🐍😃
We often have a choice: speak up or leave. In commerce, if we don't like a brand, we leave. (..) Sometimes, instead of leaving, people speak up.
He touches upon an important distinction:
For most of my life, the biggest separation between government and economics was this distinction. In many cases, government has generally taken the idea of exit off the table.
Joel Spolsky in The Stack Overflow Age:
But we just wanted to fix the internet.
Jason Fried on Signal v. Noise: Where group chat works, and where it doesn’t.
Harold Jarche on an important aspect of the automation of work:
Much of the current analysis of the automation of work looks at replacing what people do with equal work done by machines. But the machines do not even have to be as good as a person, due to our bookkeeping systems that treat labour and capital differently. Labour is a cost while capital is an investment.
I did not know that…
The difference between the social internet, social media, and why we gradually move to smaller networks.
Bringing back Web Authoring and Ownership
Anil Dash’s article on The Missing Building Blocks of the Web made me think. If web culture reverts back just a little from consuming content to creating, it could have a profound effect. #wishfulthinking While that would be an improvement, it would mainly cover public one-to-many sharing. And that is the opposite of what billions of people across the world were trained to do by friends and family: using private one-to-one and (small) group channels in their favorite messenger app.
Dark Patterns
Kottke.org recently highlighted an interesting video about how we are tricked online by deliberately confusing user experiences a.k.a. dark patterns. What are dark patterns? UI design that tricks users into doing things they might not want to do. For instance, as he shows in the video, the hoops you need to jump through to delete your Amazon account are astounding; it’s buried levels deep in a place no one would ever think to look.