Meet Jonna Mendez, the former CIA Chief of Disguise (a real job!).
During her tenure, Mendez oversaw the equipment used by spies to conceal their identities, including a five-second mask, which had been inspired by Hollywood.
The trouble with mailto email links and what to do instead.
Mailto links are everywhere and yet browsers and operating systems don’t make them easy to use.
Relevant: mailgo.dev.
Awesome Cold Showers.
For when people get too hyped up about things.
Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do. (Via Normcore Tech.)
This book, being about work, is, by its very nature, about violence — to the spirit as well as to the body.
User Frustrations in 2020.
Relevant: 4 Design Patterns That Violate “Back” Button Expectations – 59% of Sites Get It Wrong.
Here be black holes.
Like sea monsters on premodern maps, deep-space images are science’s fanciful means to chart the edges of the known world.
Aka Latka-Gravas-quints.
A Proposal for Proquints: Identifiers that are Readable, Spellable, and Pronounceable.
lusab-babad mabiv-gibot tibup-zujah
Cloudflare outage and the risk in today's Internet.
Yes, we have return to a small Internet, it is big in number of websites, pages, content and all the fiber optic cable linking those servers, actually Data Centers full of servers, full in turn of VPSs or Containers… But small in the number of owners of the infrastructure, even smaller that in the first days.
24 Children's Stories That Still Give Us the Creeps.
The farmer knowingly (and happily!) feeds ground up children to the birds. And the whole town is okay with it.