Tabs for June 9th 2023
- The rise of the deskarati. Not new content from The Gist here, but relevant nonetheless.
- How Putin exploits America
- Uses this. Awesome website showing what various people, vaguely in design or tech, use!
- "My first 24hrs on Mastodon"
- Searching for Meg White. Wonderful article spelunking into the world of Meg White, of White Stripe's fame.
- Conan O'Brien on 'We're going to be friends'. I love Conan, and this is where I wound up after the Meg White article.
- Win11 now supports .rar. And WinRAR went with memes to reply.
- SEC goes after Binance. I feel like all of these crypto exchanges are dodgy.
- Smart take on Binance and unregulated crypto exchanges
- How platforms die. Poignant given Reddit is about to kill itself off.
- US urged to reveal UFO evidence. This is wild, and kind of scary. But also exactly what I was hoping to see in my lifetime!
- Obsidian had a big change. The app is as glorious as ever (it's where I do all of my writing, in various vaults; including for this very site). But I'm not a fan of the new site. It feels a bit, corporate ?
- Instagram connects vast pedo network
- Kazakhstan, Armenia & HK block RU payments over parallel imports for electronics. Payments is my career so this was fascinating.
- The former chief business officer at Google’s moonshot division says the need to regulate A.I. is ‘beyond an emergency’
- Incredible video of Hair Force One shredding on stage. Note the video is periodically loading, because Twitter is a bag of shit. But great to see Craig Federighi on a PRS!
- The Honeymoon for remote work is over. DHH can be insufferably smug, and he doesn't avoid it in this post. But he's fairly correct. We need to figure out how to get back to work, properly. Whether that's a 4-day week, or whatever, is fine. But the overly flexible WFH part-time member of the company thing just won't sustain the kind of success people want from their careers for long. You can't disengage from the company culture, colleagues and the "space" work provides to make you feel good about your work in lieu of walking the dog or playing PlayStation at lunch, while also being hyper successful career-wise. We need to find a fair balance.
- Aran chair. We've been missing textiles inspired by west coast of Ireland farming jumpers, right?
- Apollo will shut down, Reddit lies, developer has receipts. Fuck Reddit.
- Why is everyone watching TV with subtitles?. Great article but the tldr is that audio quality is shocking.
- Food photographer of the year awards
- Zuck on Vision Pro
- Why do Japanese websites look so different?. Actually I have experience in this realm. A huge part of it is searching in localised text/language/font is quite difficult, so a lot of sites put as many links on the home page, menu or footer as they can. The cultural part is why text basically overlays everything.