When "Zoë" ≠ "Zoë". Or why you need to normalize Unicode strings.

Never heard of Unicode normalization? You’re not alone. But it will save you a lot of trouble.

The long, complicated, and extremely frustrating history of Medium, 2012–present.

(…) the company has typically hired and promoted the work of editors and writers who were already well known. Many of them were able to head back to legacy publications or other ventures when their Medium publications folded; people whose careers weren’t as established, or who were starting publications on Medium from scratch, often haven’t been so lucky.

The 2080s “Past is the Future”.

Imagine how your current favorite singers would look like in a 80s version.

Kommentar zur parlamentarischen Bürgerinitiative „fairändern“.

Frauen* in Österreich erleben unter Schwarz-Blau eine Regierung, die versucht, ihnen hart erkämpfte Rechte nach und nach zu nehmen – zugunsten eines konservativen Rollenbildes. Manches, wie die Bewertung von Arbeitssuchenden via Algorithmus, der Frauen und Minderheiten automatisch schlechter einstuft, geschieht unter den Augen der Öffentlichkeit. Anderes, wie die parlamentarische Bürgerinitiative “fairändern” wird im Verborgenen vorangetrieben.

Hint: security.

Why can't I set the font size of a visited link?

ArchiveBox 🗃 The open source self-hosted web archive.

(…) takes a list of website URLs you want to archive, and creates a local, static, browsable HTML clone of the content from those websites (it saves HTML, JS, media files, PDFs, images and more).

PPIO - A private, stable and affordable decentralized storage.

The Route of a Text Message, a Love Story.

The surprisingly complex journey a text message takes every time we hit 'send.'

A comprehensive (and honest) list of UX clichés.

“People don’t scroll” — “People are used to scrolling (…)”.