Senior Developers are Getting Rejected for Jobs.
Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off.
— Max Howell (@mxcl) June 10, 2015
Bindery.js is a library for designing printable books with HTML and CSS (via github.com).
At its simplest, Bindery flows content over multiple pages. From there, the designer can create running headers, spreads, footnotes, tables of contents, indexes, and more. Bindery also provides print options like bleed, crop marks, and booklet ordering.
About Dark Mountain.
Together, we are walking away from the stories that our societies like to tell themselves, the stories that prevent us seeing clearly the extent of the ecological, social and cultural unravelling that is now underway. We are making art that doesn’t take the centrality of humans for granted. We are tracing the deep cultural roots of the mess the world is in. And we are looking for other stories, ones that can help us make sense of a time of disruption and uncertainty.
Which Face Is Real? Learn to spot fake faces at a glance.
Relevant: blog.p3k.org.
Are you looking, Fairphone?
Shift Phones (via taz.de).
The End Of Empathy.
Americans these days seem to be losing their appetite for empathy, especially the walk-a-mile-in-someone's-shoes Easter Sunday morning kind.
Relevant: Tech is “downgrading” humanity — but we can fix it.
From the surrealist acts dept.
Farmed animals have personalities, smarts, even a sense of agency. Why then do we saddle them with lives of utter despair?
Relevant: If reason exists without deliberation, it cannot be uniquely human.
The greatest con women in herstory.
The Prussian Grifter Who Swindled Her Way to Her Own One-Woman Show.
Bertha Heyman lived a life in and out of jail and on and off the stage.
12 Bilder zeigen, wie Frauen mit Brustkrebs leben.
Wenn der Brustkrebs Metastasen streut: Drei junge Frauen erzählen vom ihrem Leben mit metastasierendem Brustkrebs, von ihren Ängsten und Hoffnungen.
Foxes and hedgefundshogs.
The Peculiar Blindness of Experts (via futurism.com).
One study compiled a decade of annual dollar-to-euro exchange-rate predictions made by 22 international banks: Barclays, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, and others. Each year, every bank predicted the end-of-year exchange rate. The banks missed every single change of direction in the exchange rate. In six of the 10 years, the true exchange rate fell outside the entire range of all 22 bank forecasts.