I will turn 35 this year and this is only the fourth flat I lived in (and the 2nd city):
(I’m not counting the one my parents lived in for the first month of my live.)
Problem and solution
1Blocker 4 is amazing. It can block trackers in apps by setting up local network filtering. You no longer have to run a VPN. Bye, bye Guardian.
🔗 Cryptocurrency is an abject disaster by Drew DeVault
📝 New blog: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
📝 New blog post: Creating pages from data with Eleventy
🔗 The Infrastructural Power Beneath the Internet as We Know It by Ingrid Burrington for The Reboot
I’ve lately been trying an exercise where, when reading anything by or about tech companies, I replace uses of the word “infrastructure” with “means of production.”
👋 Want to work with me? At mySugr we’re looking for a frontend developer. We have an awesome team, cool projects and a very nice office in the heart of Vienna (because we’re now allowed to think post-pandemic).
📝 New blog article: How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
🔗 Embrace the Grind by Jacob Kaplan-Moss
[…] being able to offload repetitive tasks to a program is one of the best things about knowing how to code. However, sometimes problems can’t be solved by automation. If you’re willing to embrace the grind you’ll look like a magician.
🔗 The Healing Power of JavaScript by Craig Mod for WIRED
🔗 Prescriptive software is better than descriptive software by Kilian Valkhof
🔗 NFTs Were Supposed to Protect Artists. They Don’t. by Anil Dash for The Atlantic
Take a second and think about how your tongue lies in your mouth.
I’m so sorry.
🔗 The mess at Medium by Casey Newton for The Verge
🔗 GPT-3 tries pickup lines by Janelle Shane
You look like a stealth assassin from the clouds.
🔗 He got Facebook hooked on AI. Now he can’t fix its misinformation addiction by Karen Hao for MIT Technology Review
🔗 Why The IndieWeb? by Heydon Pickering
📝 To celebrate the 15th anniversary of my Last.fm account I revisited my article on Last.fm and Apple Music from 2015: Last.fm and Apple Music in 2021
Silence facilitated blame, she would decide later. In the absence of an other person’s account, the story you invented for yourself went unchallenged.
The Third Hotel by Laura Van Den Berg
I’ve read The Third Hotel by Laura van Den Berg this week and it’s beautiful. Confusing, but beautiful.
🚀 Released @fec/remark-images v0.5.0-alpha, which adds an option to process captions.
🔗 Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny by RS Benedict
🔗 Why YKK zippers are the brown M&Ms of product design: look at the little details to judge overall gear quality by Josh Centers for The Prepared
🔗 The Future of Group Messaging by Jarren Horrocks