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Weekend Reading — 😱 Existential angst
Mat Bradshaw “Spotted these bollards/posts outside a school earlier. Pretty cute eh!”
Tech Stuff
Eldora UI An interesting collection of React/Typescript/Tailwind components. These are not your everyday UI components — they have a weird but extremely interesting collection of components. You got a spinning globe, a ticker scrolling company names, a pricing page, typing effect, and many many more. Check it out, you may find a component you really need for your current project
FlyonUI If you prefer to write the code, you might enjoy FlyonUI. 78+ components, styled using Tailwind CSS. You do need to write some code to generate the HTML. Some components also come with their own JS code.
App updates feel like...
Multi-billion dollar tech companies:
- no changelog provided
- bug fixes and performance improvements
- updated our privacy policy
Single-dev passion project:
- fixed the following 17 bugs, added 3 new features (with a paragraph on each one), and fixed a typo in "the" on page 6, line 12, of the previous changelog
Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities from which I just learned about the useful networkQuality.
Among our dev team we try to have regular meetings to review what each other have been working on and how it works. At some point someone referred to these as “Code Orgies”…which was short handed to Corgis… so now we have amulets to bring to our meetings.
Calling my ISP tech support department is the bane of my existence. I don't want be all Ron Swanson "I know more than you", but I also don't have 2 hours to waste while they hold my hand and walk me through debugging a network stack they don't understand, only to conclude the problem is on their side, which I already concluded because I debugged my entire network stack before calling them
I just heard someone refer to on-prem Exchange and AD as "boomer stack" and it killed me 🤣
Archaeo-Histories “Seems like the 21st Century version of a 'Message in a Bottle' 😀”
Eye for Design
Text Behind Image This is pretty cool. Upload any image, then write a short text, and it will place your text between the foreground object and the background.
Q&A: Rachel Plotnick On the Return of Tactile Controls 💪 Yes! Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back.
Subscale When you need to grind a precise quantity of coffee beans and you want a fancy and cool looking device to display the weight.
(* This display does not make your coffee taste any better, but sure make this a cool looking x-mas present)
Peoples
I have to complete my self evaluation today and I really just want to write, "This year I did work and you compensated me for it, as per our agreement."
we are about to find out which tech companies become IBM and which of our colleagues are happy going along with it
never underestimate what someone with decades of finely-honed adhd can accomplish in the seven minutes before a hard deadline
Business Side
Jack Dorsey's Square to Invest More in Bitcoin Mining and Shut Decentralized 'Web5' Venture Remember when Web5 was the future of the internet? It was so visionary, powerful, and distributed beyond mere Web3. Anyways …
The firm is redoubling efforts to supply miners as that industry struggles with profits — and Donald Trump promises help.
Honestly, "Google couldn't verify your identity" is probably the nicest thing a corporation can say to you.
Microsoft are effectively giving up on Copilot Pro subscription ($20/month) as almost nobody paid for it.
Instead they are bundling it into Microsoft 365 consumer subscriptions and inflating the renewal prices there. There’s no opt out.
Effectively allows the Copilot revenue and user numbers to be inflated.
Machine Intelligence
Aptitude Far too common for “customer research” to be asking customers a lot of questions and then presenting a report at the CxO meeting which verifies your prior assumptions. And since you’re judged on the quality of the report, why not use AI to save you the time of actually talking to customers?
timeOS Write your meeting notes in short form and have the AI transform them into shareable text.
(* Not included: the AI that will read these expanded meeting notes and then summarize them back to the participants)
Insecurity
NextDNS Now that uBlock Origin is effectively dead, you might want to try out NextDNS. I found it surprisingly easy to set up, just a couple of minutes on each device. And it's very affordable: if you make more than 300,000 DNS lookups a month, it costs a mere $1.99 for the month.
I learned something new. I had a woman start DMing me out of the blue. It’s obviously the start of a scam, so I’m messing with the person. And then she types “Alaye” in the chat. I looked it up and it’s a word scammers use to identify each other. So if they say “Alaye,” and you say it back, it means “OK, we’re both scammers. We can stop wasting time and try to scam someone else.”
How crazy is that?
reminder that captchas are extremely, unbelievably cheap to bypass. $500 gives you a million captchas a month, or a third of that for hcaptcha, etc
the only thing they're "completely automatically testing" is how much cheaper human time is in the global south
solving them with 'AI' is economically meaningless. you just go to e.g. https://anti-captcha.com
Lukito “I hate this dumbass timeline.”
Everything Else
Street Art Utopia “Beautiful Street Art 🥰”
The Void is receiving a higher than usual volume of screams right now. Please stay on the line, your existential angst is important to us.
"one of the few species of birds known to use tools" okay i think actually at this point we can say that birds can use tools, i have heard this said about enough different bird species and i think its fair to just make the generalization
Currently listening to bossa nova music. I'm not sure what they're saying but I'm pretty sure I'm supposed to make love to someone who smells like coconut on the beach.
Rusty Bertrand 👇 This story (link to read) is fantastic:
Ha’a Keaulana, daughter of renowned surfer and water safety expert Brian Keaulana and granddaughter of the legendary Buffalo Keaulana, carries a 50-pound boulder as she runs across the sea floor. This intense form of underwater training prepares her for the demands of big-wave surfing. Her father teaches surfers to train for a four-wave hold-down, ensuring they’re ready for the real challenges of the ocean. With 13-second intervals between waves, that hold-down could mean up to a full minute underwater.
When an article says "some scientists think" then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth. I could, it turns out, get it in there, but I hadn't given sufficient thought to the reverse operation.
Austrian Airlines Abandon’s Elon Musk’s X Platform Due to “Increasing Spread of Hate, Agitation and Disinformation”
We need to get those monkeys 43 little typewriters and get them started on their reproduction of the Bards back catalogue
Q&A: How a Former ExxonMobil Employee Confronted the Climate Disinformation Machine
Former ExxonMobil climate scientist Lindsey Gulden: "It was after I was fired for reporting a garden variety fraud that I really sat back and thought about the implications for climate change."
#curl -v https://google.comas a metal song is a must see and hear experience. A masterpiece. I just love it.
‘People want to smash stuff’: Rocked by election, locals turn to rage rooms The SF Bay Area has a Smash Room, just for an occasion like this:
“The election results were in and people wanted to smash stuff,” he said. His bookings were up 380% the day after the election.
At the time I got married, 13 years ago, I lived in a flat. I liked it cos it was a short walk from the train station. Good for getting home after late nights out.
My wife moved in. One day she said, "The only problem with this flat is that it's a long walk from the station."
Long?
Turns out it's short if you go thru the woods & by the dark underpass, a route a woman would never think of taking.
And that was my 1st lesson in how we inhabit the same space but live in different worlds.
Grandmas on Demand: NYC’s Mobile Advice Stand Returns
Conceived by Upper West Sider Mike Matthews, the Grandma Stand is a mobile station where passersby can stop to chat with a grandmother for free advice and a sympathetic ear.
Wikipedia Picture of the Year for 2023:
This years winning photo was taken by user Trantuanviet, which depicts incense sticks being set out to dry, after being dipped in the incense solution, and was taken in Quang Phu Cau village, on the outskirts of Hanoi, Vietnam.
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