Wie Merkel lernte, mit dem Gopnik zu reden.
Gopniki wollen keine offenen Konflikte. Sie vermöbeln dich vielleicht ein Mal, zur Abschreckung. Aber wenn das nicht wirkt, lassen sie dich wahrscheinlich in Ruhe und widmen sich anderen, mit denen sie es leichter haben.
Remember Google Wave?
“I was wrong. CRDTs are the future” (via lobste.rs).
We wanted Wave to replace email. Email is federated. An email thread can span multiple companies and it all just works. And unlike facebook messenger, emails are only be sent to the companies that are CC’ed. If I email my coworker, my email doesn’t leave the building. For Wave to replace email, we needed the same functionality. But how can that work on top of OT?
See also organisation of US companies, officers all the way down…
On the pervasive presence of military language elements in computer security.
When we think about it, we have way better metaphors.
When fonts fall – A deep-dive into font fallback.
This is such an amazing read, I enjoyed it very much this morning: if you ever wanted to know about how browsers render a font, especially with emojis or “foreign” characters, or if you wondered about why it shows you just a box instead – it’s all explained in an entertaining and well-written manner here.
The UX of banking.
Monzo, Revolut and Starling—often called the challenger banks—have built billion-dollar businesses around the belief that they offer the best overall banking experience.
But are they actually any better, or is it all clever marketing? To answer that question I opened 12 real bank accounts, and logged everything.
Emulate vision deficiencies in DevTools.
Globally, 1 billion people have a near or distant vision impairment impacting how clearly they can see objects, including web pages.
Relevant: a11yresources.
TheArt of Gertrude Kauders.
Hidden From The Nazis, Murdered Jewish Artist's Trove Of Paintings Discovered In Prague House.
Relevant: Nazi-Kunst am Maschsee? Georg Kolbe ließ Juden Modell stehen.
Manned Piloted spaceflight.
The future of space is female.
NASA is sending a woman to the moon and putting women among its highest ranks, part of a concerted push toward inclusivity in an industry long dominated by men.
DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest is Hurting Open Source.
In reality, Hacktoberfest is a corporate-sponsored distributed denial of service attack against the open source maintainer community.