Why Elizabeth Wurtzel, Who Died at 52, Was a Cultural Force.
Elizabeth Wurtzel, the author of “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, has died of metastatic breast cancer at age 52.
How One Photographer Captures the Glory of Birds in Flight.
Eschersketch – A Symmetry Drawing Tool.
The End of Indie Web Browsers: You Can (Not) Compete.
No longer is it possible to build your own web browser capable of consuming some of the most popular content on the web. Websites like Netflix, Hulu, HBO, and others require copyright content protection which is only accessible through browser vendors who have license agreements with large corporations.
Looking at you, p3k!
Don’t be a clean code zealot. Clean code is not a goal. It’s an attempt to make some sense out of the immense complexity of systems we’re dealing with.
Win-win solutions are a fantasy: in reality, progress creates both winners and losers.
Define “smartest”.
Nieman Lab's Predictions for Journalism 2020.
Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in journalism and digital media what they think is coming in the next 12 months. Here’s what they had to say.
Relevant: tante’s Ausblick 2020.
Grain of salt alert.
A beginner's guide to DeFi.
Decentralized finance, also referred to as “DeFi” or open finance, aims to recreate traditional financial systems (such as lending, borrowing, derivatives, and exchange) with automation in place of middlemen.
I Read Airbnb Magazine So You Don’t Have To.
The primary feeling I got reading Airbnb Magazine, other than boredom, was a sense of pity for the “content producers” who make it, the talented photographers and writers and filmmakers who should be able to make actual cinematic tone poems without shilling for a hotel conglomerate, or who could write about Turkish cuisine without debasing it as “brand storytelling” for a magazine that nobody reads.
Must Knit Dogs: Meet the People Who Turn Stray Pet Hair Into Sweaters.
I am collecting our cats’ hair for some years now; uncertain if this will ever be enough even for one sock, though…
