Thursday, 7. November 12019
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Der Antisemit macht den Juden, der Demokrat benutzt ihn.

Es gibt so gut wie kein Interesse an einer Jüdischen Sicht auf die aktuellen Probleme, denen wir ausgesetzt sind. Weder braucht der Antisemitismus, noch der Kampf gegen den Antisemitismus Juden. Er findet in Deutschland immer unter Ausschluss von ihnen statt.

Brands keep sending their pointless swag to the space station.

Adidas sent soccer ball to the ISS, ostensibly to test how air resistance affects their spin. But why?

Monday, 4. November 12019
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Unix is 50, let’s play the Unix Game.

Planet-centric design doesn’t only mean de-centering the human, it means exploring the future from not only multiple perspectives, but multi-species perspectives.

Like, OK boomer…

Millennialspeak: ‘Like’ is not a lazy linguistic filler. The word has, like, a grammar of its own.

English language snobs shaming the word ‘like’ fail to understand its millennial grammar.

The search for a better accessibility symbol is solving the wrong design problem.

(…) if we’re going to pursue a new accessibility symbol[ogy], it should probably be one that’s inclusive.

Source: miro.medium.com

free-for.dev.

This is a list of software (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.) and other offerings that have free tiers for developers.

Or: uniformity playground?

Design System Playground.

Play with typography, colors and themeable components in your design system.

Why it’s so hard to get away from FB et al.

The Fantasy of Opting Out.

(…) consider how thoroughly the systems mentioned are embedded in our hypothetical ordinary person’s everyday life, far more invasively than mere logs of her daily comings and goings. Someone observing her could assemble in forensic detail her social and familial connections, her struggles and interests, and her beliefs and commitments.

Relevant: Obfuscation. A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest.

When your scripting language hits a Wall.

The Fall Of Perl, The Web’s Most Promising Language.

Disclaimer: my first web scripts were writting in Perl, kudos to Henso for the CGI book (I think it was this one).