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A Year of 379 Computer Days.
A joyous and beguilingly mischievous overview of computing, organized in a misleadingly sensible day-by-day format, which dispenses with stodgy details, replacing them with apéritifs of refreshing trivia and humor.
Book: The Innovation Delusion.
“Innovation” is the hottest buzzword in business. But what if our obsession with finding the next big thing has distracted us from the work that matters most?
Text layout is a loose hierarchy of segmentation.
A complete account of text layout would be at least a small book. Since there’s no way I can write that now, this blog post is a small step towards that – in particular, an attempt to describe the “big picture,” using the conceptual framework of a “loose hierarchy.” Essentially, a text layout engine breaks the input into finer and finer grains, then reassembles the results into a text layout object suitable for drawing, measurement, and hit testing.
when-will-web-browsers-be-complete.txt (via news.ycombinator.com).
If we all acted as logical entities, we should have separate "Ungoogled-ChromiumOS" machines (say running on the latest Raspberry Pi) which is our access points to the "Google Era" Web, and on our main computers, use something entirely different which reflects our values. Then as the "Google Era" Web degrades, people catch wind from their technologist friends that there is something better on the horizon that they might want to check out.
The rise of the non-expert expert.
From ones and zeros to millions of frameworks.
Link Previews: How a Simple Feature Can Have Privacy and Security Risks.
Link previews in chat apps can cause serious privacy problems if not done properly. We found several cases of apps with vulnerabilities such as: leaking IP addresses, exposing links sent in end-to-end encrypted chats, and unnecessarily downloading gigabytes of data quietly in the background.