I just switched from Feed Wrangler to Feedbin as my RSS reader of choice. Because Feedbin already added a share to Micro.blog feature, but mainly because I really like the very deliberate product development and the clean UI.

Spring Is Really Here! โ˜€๏ธ๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

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Great point by @jamesshelley: Stop wasting other peopleโ€™s lives.

The Guardian:

'Plastic is literally everywhere': the epidemic attacking Australia's oceans

This is just disturbing.

It’s weekend, so I have some time to review my RSS feeds. The best iOS news seems to be that Microsoft Office now supports directly opening documents from the Files app.

Brent Toderian (city planning expert) explains that any city can transform its infrastructure from ๐Ÿš˜ focused to ๐Ÿšฒ focused: twitter.com/roelgroen…

Morning Glory

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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. Facebookโ€™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 Cloudflareโ€™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 itโ€™s content marketing for the linked courses, but thatโ€™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! ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

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Seth Godin:

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.