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Waxy.org · Andy Baio
Four Days Trapped at Sea With Crypto’s Nouveau Riche
Laurie Penny goes on a crypto cruise
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
How to recognize fake AI-generated images
Kyle McDonald teaches a valuable skill for the near-future
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
The Incredibly Unlikely Creation of Katamari Damacy
This is a great time for Katamari Damacy fans, with the publication of L. E. Hall's new book about the game's creation and impact, coinciding with its remastered HD re-release.
Nonahood News · Michael Perez
City of Orlando and Orlando Police Department Begin Second-Phase Pilot to Further Test Facial Recognition Technology
The City of Orlando along with the Orlando Police Department (OPD) have expanded their dedication to keeping residents of Central Florida safe with their recent exploration into facial recognition technology. “The objective is to determine if this technology would reliably allow law enforcement to locate specific…
Belmont Club · Richard Fernandez
A Hazardous Form of Peace
Col. Austin Bay, who with Jim Dunnigan wrote the classic A Quick and Dirty Guide to War, looks at the shape of 21st century conflict in his new book Cocktails From Hell: Five Complex Wars Shaping the 21st Century. Through the prism of five current conflicts, he both explains the actual conflicts and illustrates how…
Signal v. Noise - Medium · DHH
All Basecamp policies are now on GitHub and licensed under creative commons
Several People Are Typing · trobinson
An apology and an update
Two days ago, we updated our system for applying location information to comply with U.S. trade embargoes and economic sanctions regulations. Soon after updating, we discovered that we made a series of mistakes and inadvertently deactivated a number of accounts that we shouldn’t have. We recognize the disruption and…
The Morning News
An oral history of the moment Trump learned to tweet.
"The moment I found out Trump could tweet himself was comparable to the moment in Jurassic Park when Dr. Grant realized that velociraptors could open doors," recalled the Trump Organization’s director of social media. ↩︎ POLITICO View Post →
Roughly Drafted · DED
The secret of Apple's success in selling premium tech as an affordable luxury
Apple's hardware designs, software, icons, marketing, retail strategy, and branding have all been closely copied by its rivals. One thing they aren't copying is Apple's vast, premium installed base of loyal buyers.
kottke.org · Jason Kottke
Package Thief vs. Glitter Bomb Revenge Package
Brad Frost · Brad Frost
A Tribute to My Family’s Penis Faucet
The house I was born and raised in has a single bathroom with no lock on the door. It also contains a faucet that looks like a penis. I’ve been fortunate to travel the world, stay in all manner of hotels, […]
Brad Frost · Brad Frost
CSS and Network Performance
This post by Harry does a great job of talking about the performance implications of CSS, and he shares a load of tips for avoiding big performance hits due to CSS. CSS is critical to rendering a page—a browser will […]
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
Population Mountains
Matt Daniels' stunning visualization of world population for The Pudding
A Whole Lotta Nothing · mathowie
hashtag rich guy goals
Lately I’ve thought of all the ways my life would change if I ever became a rich guy. Think of this as an action plan, if I ever got to act this way. It’s sort of like becoming a prepper, it’s just I’m prepping for opulence instead of post-apocalyptic annihilation. I’ve come up with three … Continue reading hashtag…
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Links for 2018-12-06
Irish agricultural CO2 emissions actually INCREASED by 2.9% last year Irish EPA: agriculture greenhouse gas emissions increased by 2.9% in 2017 “The most significant drivers are higher dairy cow numbers (+3.1%) which reflects national plans to expand milk production” Feck’s sake. (tags: epa ireland co2…
Roughly Drafted · DED
Why Apple is now focusing on users, not units in Fiscal 2019
the last 20 years, Apple has shifted from selling Macs in a world dominated by Windows PCs to being a dominant global brand that services a vast installed base that's more valuable, influential, and lucrative than Windows was at its peak. Apple wants its investors to understand that, and is now challenging the media…
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
A Business With No End
Jenny Odell, New York Times Recently, one of my students at Stanford told me a strange story. His parents, who live in Palo Alto, Calif., had been receiving mysterious packages at their house. The packages were all different shapes and sizes but each was addressed to “Returns Department, Valley Fountain LLC.” I…
Seth Godin's Blog · Seth Godin
90% of coaching is self-coaching
A cherry can’t grow without the pit. The drupe works because it uses the pit as instigation, a foundation to go forward from. The same is true for the way most of us engage with a coach. That basketball coach screaming from the sidelines? There’s no way the player can hear what he’s saying. That’s […]
Nonahood News · Michael Perez
Lake Nona Local Briel Royce Secured Spot in Sixth Annual Drive, Chip and Putt National Finals at Augusta National Golf Club
Briel Royce, a nine-year-old Lake Nona golf superstar, is headed to compete at the Drive, Chip and Putt at the Augusta National Golf Club the Sunday before the Masters Tournament on April 7. This nationwide junior golf development competition is a free event with the objective of growing the game by focusing on the…
A Whole Lotta Nothing · mathowie
Visiting the Whitney Plantation/Slavery Museum
When I read Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy a few years ago, I remember being shocked not just by the stories about today’s justice system, but the revelation that the first slavery museum in the US was opened to the public just a few years ago. Hundreds of years of detailed, brutal history and zero museums … Continue…
The Ad Contrarian · [email protected] (BOB HOFFMAN)
Totalitarian Marketing
This post is adapted from my book "BadMen: How Advertising Went From A Minor Annoyance To A Major Menace."Advertising used to be concerned with imparting information. Today it is concerned with collecting information.Online advertising, the predominant form of marketing communication, is largely reliant on "tracking"…
Backlinko · Brian Dean
SEO Case Study: How I Increased My Organic Traffic 652% in 7 Days
There’s a new SEO strategy that’s crushing it right now. (“Skyscraper Technique 2.0”) I recently used this strategy to increase organic traffic to one of my pages by 652.1%. (In 7 days) This same approach helped my brand new post hit the #1 spot in Google… within weeks. And today’s SEO case study I’m going … The post…
justinobeirne.com RSS Feed · J
Apple’s New Map
Has Apple closed the gap with Google’s map?https://www.justinobeirne.com/new-apple-maps
White African · hash
Reflection on 5 Years of BRCK
It was 5 years ago that we created BRCK as a company, and I’ve had the great joy of being on a journey with some fantastic people, including the three here with me in this picture (Reg Orton, Emmanuel Kala, and Philip Walton). We had an idea of what we were getting into back in […]
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
‘What the Hell Happened to Darius Miles?’
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
The Internet Archive’s Commodore 64 Software Library
in-browser emulation of over 13,000 disks
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
In-App Purchasing Scams in the App Store
Dave Trott's Blog · trottdave
PROJECTING OURSELVES
A few years ago, I was browsing round Foyles at lunchtime. Next to all the books, on the wall, was a map of the world. But something was funny about it, it was distorted. The top part (Europe, … Continue reading →
Nonahood News · Michael Perez
Jiyo Wellbeing in the Lake Nona Community
“The goal of Jiyo is to impact a billion people’s lives by enabling them to experience a joyful energetic body, a loving compassionate heart, and a restful but alert mind and lightness of being.” – Deepak Chopra M.D. Last month the Lake Nona Town Center hosted the launch of the wellbeing app Jiyo Lake Nona, […] The…
Asymco · Horace Dediu
Lasts Longer
I think Lisa Jackson’s presentation at the September 2018 iPhone launch event was perhaps the most interesting and most profound. Lisa Jackson is Apple’s vice president of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives. Previously, Ms. Jackson served as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In…
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Cryptocurrency Mining Now Accounts for Approximately One Percent of the World’s Energy Consumption
Drew Millard, the Outline: It is well-established established that Bitcoin mining — aka, donating one’s computing power to keep a cryptocurrency network up and running in exchange for a chance to win some free crypto — uses a lot of electricity. Companies involved in large-scale mining operations know that this is a…
Wondermark · David Malki
New Hyperbolic stickers & new enamel pins!
I’ve been teasing these for a while, but the day has come — the new crop of Hyperbolic Upgrade Stickers is now available! [ Stickers on Wondermark Brand Dry-Goods. ] Previously, stickers of this type were only available in preselected packs. UNTIL TODAY. Now you can order any of my stickers (there are actually 38 […]
Dinosaur Comics!
my favourite russian proverb is how "the early bird gets the worm" becomes "the one who gets up first gets the slippers". it tells a whole story: it's cold in the morning!…
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Monday Note - Medium · Frederic Filloux
“Do no harm” to Facebook’s business model
Tom MacWright · Tom MacWright
Permit me to convince you to get a library card
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
‘The Oldest Trick in the Book’
Stack Overflow Blog · Tim Post
Get to Know Our New Code of Conduct
Thanks to some amazing efforts and collaboration between our veteran users and quite a few new faces that jumped in to help us with our inclusion efforts, our brand new Code of Conduct (CoC) is rolling off the press and going into effect across the network today. For those of you that haven’t been following along…
Brad Frost · Brad Frost
Frontend Performance Checklist
This looks like a handy performance checklist for a web project.
A Whole Lotta Nothing · mathowie
How to get a daily Nancy comic in your Slack
I love the new Nancy comics, and I love having them delivered automatically to me. For a while, I used a pirate RSS feed someone made that listed each day’s comic, which could easily be piped into any RSS reader (Slack consumes RSS, so that’s how I started). But then the feed came to a … Continue reading How to get a…
Stratechery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
Free Daily Update: An Interview with Patreon CEO Jack Conte and Memberful CEO Drew Strojny
An interview with Patreon CEO Jack Conte and Memberful CEO Drew Strojny on the occasion of Patreon acquiring Memberful, the membership software used by Stratechery. This Daily Update is free for everyone.