Emoji history: the missing years.
Suicide of Takako Konishi.
Her death was ruled a suicide, but some erroneous media stories at the time reported that she, under the mistaken impression that the 1996 film Fargo was based on a true story, had died trying to locate the money hidden by Steve Buscemi's character, Carl Showalter.
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Everything you need to know about László Krasznahorkai, winner of the Man Booker International prize
Little known in the English-speaking world, the Hungarian author has been praised by Susan Sontag and WG Sebald and his fans include a film director whose life’s mission is to bring his novels to the screen.
Relevant: Where to begin with Béla Tarr.
The tech industry needs to start building things for real people again. Solve real problems. Help regular consumers, not the shadowy morasse of Small-To-Medium Enterprises. If artificial intelligence is truly the future, build something that makes somebody who doesn’t give a shit about technology sit up and listen instead of creating increasingly-more-complex party tricks in the hopes that it’ll show Wall Street you’re still growing.
Smashing Newsletter #456: How To Name Things
Naming is hard. As designers and developers, we often struggle finding the right name — for design tokens, colors, UI components, HTML classes and variables. Sometimes names are too generic, so it’s difficult to understand what they mean. Or too specific, leaving little room for flexibility and re-use.
Raves: Untz untz untz untz.
“Techno… derives its central premise from the act of African Americans dreaming of a future beyond the structural failings of a postindustrial collapse in the late twentieth century,” wrote media theorist DeForrest Brown Jr.
My personalized State of JavaScript 2023 reading list.
- 2023 State of the API Report
- Biome – format, lint, and more in a fraction of a second
- ChakraCore is a JavaScript engine with a C API you can use to add support for JavaScript to any C or C compatible project
- Design Tools Survey 2023
- Nx is a build system optimized for monorepos with built-in tooling and advanced CI capabilities
- Rush – a scalable monorepo manager for the web
- State of HTML 2023
- State of Developer Ecosystem 2023
- Tsup - bundle your TypeScript library with no config, powered by esbuild
- Turbo is an incremental bundler and build system optimized for JavaScript and TypeScript, written in Rust
- Yalc - better workflow than npm | yarn link for package authors
Have I Been Pwned by the Post Millenial data breach disclosed on 2 May? Yes.
Have I interacted with or even heard of the Post Millenial ever before? No.
Am I suprised? Profit.
Milli 🖤
Manchmal frage ich mich
Wo all unsere Leute jetzt sind
Sie kamen uns abhanden unterwegs
Und wie das ist wenn auch wir dann abhanden kommen
Welches Funksignal uns dann noch erreicht.
Facebook’s AI Spam Isn’t the ‘Dead Internet’: It’s the Zombie Internet.
Facebook is the zombie internet, where a mix of bots, humans, and accounts that were once humans but aren’t anymore interact to form a disastrous website where there is little social connection at all.