dullneon.com - random notes, links and pixels · Jaffry Jalal
Running Quake on an oscilloscope.
“But why?”, one may ask. Those who don’t ask it will know and will never be able to sufficiently explain or articulate.
2014
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Daring Fireball · John Gruber
A Dozen Things Tren Griffin Learned From Steve Jobs About Business
Web Performance Today · Tammy Everts
5 things you should know about DDoS attacks, outages, SSL, and web performance
Security and performance are incredibly closely entwined, and in some circles it's a little-known fact that a cyberattack can have as much -- if not more -- impact on web performance as it has on downtime. Here are a few security/performance insights from Radware's annual Global Application and Network Security…
dullneon.com - random notes, links and pixels · Jaffry Jalal
On Millennials and potatoes…
Attitudes about potatoes among Millennials are very positive. Eighty-nine percent rate potatoes “excellent” or “good” for being a good value, and 88 percent rate potatoes “excellent” or “good” for being something everyone would enjoy. In fact, potatoes rate highest on what’s most important to Millennials. — United…
doxa
Woke up at 5am to bike ourselves to the top of an old monastery...
Woke up at 5am to bike ourselves to the top of an old monastery to watch the sunrise. Probably one of the best things I’ve ever done in my life. Of the 10,000+ that were originally built, over 3,200 temples remain in this ancient city kissed by the morning sun. Foreverness. 🙏 🙌 #bagan #burma (at Old Bagan)
OPEN URBANISM · debbie ding
Dog Sense: People Standing in Unexpected Places in a park
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Peter Singer on Sony’s Reaction to North Korea Hack
Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO · Matt Cutts
Some thoughts on XOXO
The week before XOXO, a festival dedicated to independent artists and creators, I was in Juneau, Alaska for a cruise with my wife and my parents. I got off the ship with my Dad and we walked around town. We kept walking, past the touristy stores selling smoked salmon and tanzanite. We walked for a […]
kottke.org · Jason Kottke
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Feed: » stratechery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
Best
One of the challenges of writing on the Internet – of writing in general, in fact – is the understandable propensity of readers to draw but one conclusion from what you intend to be a nuanced piece. I was reminded of this the past few weeks as Philip Elmer-DeWitt wrote Apple and the Crisis of Disruption and…
Feed: » stratechery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
Differentiation and Value Capture in the Internet Age
It’s hard to have a conversation with anyone in tech without the word “scale” entering the conversation; “Internet scale” is a particularly popular variation of the term. Scale is a concept that is at the root of most venture investing: because software has zero marginal cost – one copy costs just as much as 100, or…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Paul Ford: ‘The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing’
Yoast • SEO for everyone · Annelieke van den Berg
How to create and use dashboards in Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a powerful tool. However, it does take quite some time to get used to it, which is why many people are missing out on a lot of functionalities. They simply don’t know some options exists. So today, I’ll explain a feature that I find very useful: Google Analytics dashboards. Here, you’ll read what…
Marco.org
Cheap, huge cloud backups for a Synology NAS
I’ve greatly enjoyed my Synology NAS, the DS1813+,1 for over a year, but I hadn’t found a good cloud-backup solution until now. Arq to S3 or Glacier Arq runs on a Mac, not on the Synology itself, and can back up any mounted file shares to Amazon S3 or Glacier. Arq works well, but S3’s pricing can get prohibitive:…
Feed: » stratechery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
Publishers and the Smiling Curve
One would not normally draw a connection from a company like Largan Precision (TPE:3008), a small Taiwanese component supplier, to the publishing industry. But it was a very insightful observation from another Taiwanese company’s CEO – Acer founder Stan Stih – about what he called the “Smiling Curve” that created the…
Coding Horror · Jeff Atwood
Your Community Door
What are the real world consequences to signing up for a Twitter or Facebook account through Tor and spewing hate toward other human beings? Facebook reviewed the comment I reported and found it doesn't violate their Community Standards. pic.twitter.com/p9syG7oPM1— Rob Beschizza (@Beschizza) October 15, 2014 As far…
Social · Kevan Lee
How to Share Old Blogposts on Social Media: 5 Quick Tips for Getting More Out of Your Archives
Social media advice seems to come in two flavors: what to do and how to do it. Take, for instance, the advice to reshare content from your blog’s archives. This strategy seems to pay big dividends for the accounts who’ve embraced it. They’ve seen more traffic, more reshares, and more engagement even though the…
Monday Note · Frédéric Filloux
How Facebook and Google Now Dominate Media Distribution
The news media sector has become heavily dependent on traffic from Facebook and Google. A reliance now dangerously close to addiction. Maybe it’s time to refocus on direct access. Digital publishers pride themselves on their ability to funnel traffic from search and social, namely Google and Facebook (we’ll see that…
Waxy.org Links
Gamergate vs. ELIZA
some genius set up the classic chatbot to reply to #NotYourShield tweets
ParisLemon
"He left Steve holding a big bag of shit."
“He left Steve holding a big bag of shit.” - An unnamed former Microsoft executive talking about Bill Gates handing over the reins of the company to Steve Ballmer in 2000.
ThinkUp Blog · michellej
Exercise Your Power of Promotion
We’ve just released a new ThinkUp insight that helps you tap into your inner promotion power. The follower comparison insight alerts you when your reach-the number of people who see your tweets-exceeds that of those you follow. In other words, ThinkUp lets you know exactly how much exposure you can give your friends…
The Message — Medium · Anil Dash
The tech diversity story that’s not being told.
We’ve had countless conversations about the horrible track record of the tech industry when it comes to the inclusion of anyone who isn’t a…Continue reading on Medium »
Dinosaur Comics!
maybe the 15th century artists only reinvented it, maybe the greeks knew about it and we all forgot, maybe maybe maybe
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Waxy.org Links
Trouble at the Koolaid Point
Kathy Sierra's brilliant, upsetting deconstruction of her online harassment
Schneier on Security · schneier
iPhone Encryption and the Return of the Crypto Wars
Rands in Repose · rands
Elon on the Future of Humanity
Via Aeon: ‘If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way,’ he said. ‘And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations.’#
The Message — Medium · Robin Sloan
Selling on the slider
Prices are getting weird.Continue reading on Medium »
ParisLemon
onlylolgifs: Unlocking every iPhone at once The world’s...
onlylolgifs: Unlocking every iPhone at once The world’s most expensive xylophone.
OkDork.com · Paul Shapiro
We Analyzed the 3,000 Most Successful LinkedIn Publishing Posts
This is a post by Paul Shapiro. Make sure you check out his blog, Search Wilderness and follow him on Twitter. *** LinkedIn has opened the floodgates to a world of content with their new publishing platform and it’s an amazing way to expose your writing to a highly-professional network of readers. Top influencers are…
BBH Labs · Mel Exon
Code and Creativity
This post is an adapted and extended version of one of our monthly tech columns written for Marketing Magazine. The original article appeared in Marketing on July 28th, 2014. Illustration for Griffin Farley’s Beautiful Minds, by Kate Moross, Breed. Recently I’ve been perplexed why a debate still rages in the…
Navjot pawera · n4vgipsyd4ng3r
Via Medium: “Presenting design” in Here at buUuk
“Presenting design” in Here at buUuk
Waxy.org Links
5 Things I Learned as the Internet's Most Hated Person
Zoe Quinn summarizes the insanely stupid manufactured "controversy" that is GamerGate
Craig Mod - The Sputnik Journal · Craig Mod
Ebooks for All
Social · Kevan Lee
How Much of Yourself Do You Share on Social Media?
Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter offer a unique opportunity to get close to people who are hundreds of miles away. You can share anything with anyone at any time. You can share. Does this mean that you should share? I’ve come up against this question many times, hovering over the Send button on a status…
Social · Neil Patel
How to Save Six Hours a Week on Social Media
You know the feeling. You’re sitting there, staring at your hands, at the keyboard, at the screen, at the ceiling. You’re supposed to post something on Twitter, but you have no idea what to post. I’ve been there before. I think we’ve all been there. Everything that comes to mind seems lame. Slogans, links, articles,…
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Links for 2014-09-11
Open Invention Network Symposium on Open Source Software and Patents in Context Dublin, 24th September 2014, hosted by Enterprise Ireland. Hosted by former Ubuntu counsel (via gcarr) (tags: via:gcarr ubuntu law legal open-source floss oss oin inventions patents swpat software ireland ei events) Chris Baus: TCP_CORK:…
Craig Mod - The Sputnik Journal · Craig Mod
Coming Home: NYT Now
Inside Facebook · Justin Lafferty
Can a CEO or star employee boost your Facebook engagement?
As organic reach continues to decline, Facebook page admins are looking for any way to get their messages read by more of their fans. Some companies are experiencing success by operating two pages: one for the...
Yoast • SEO for everyone · Annelieke van den Berg
Tracking your SEO with Google Analytics: a how-to
At Yoast, we’re known for giving you numerous tips to improve your site’s SEO. However, how do you know whether those tips are actually working for you? There are a number of tools out there that can help you track your SEO, but most of them will cost you money. And, in the end, it’s obviously just […]
Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect · Seth Godin
Analytics without action
Don't measure anything unless the data helps you make a better decision or change your actions. If you're not prepared to change your diet or your workouts, don't get on the scale.
Yoast · Joost de Valk
Google Analytics by Yoast, V5: Universal Support
We’ve been working hard on our Google Analytics plugin and are proud to release version 5.0, with universal support, today. With all the changes Google had made to Analytics and with our improved development experience we decided we’d be better off with a full rewrite. We’ve redone some of the features, killed a few…
90 Percent Of Everything · Heather Burns
Some Dark Patterns now illegal in UK – interview with Heather Burns
In this article I interview Heather Burns, author of The Web Designer’s Guide to the Consumer Rights Directive. So, which dark patterns are now illegal in the UK? The EU’s new consumer rights law bans certain dark patterns related to … Continue reading
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Dan Kaminsky on the Implications of Underground Celebrity Photo Theft Rings
ParisLemon
How did Apple never think of this? It’s the damn iTunes icon!
How did Apple never think of this? It’s the damn iTunes icon!