Here come the automators.
The Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job.
When workers automate their own duties, who should reap the benefits?
Controlling one’s own destiny, though, takes more than product or popularity. It takes money, which is to say it takes building a company, working business model and all. That is why I mark April 9, 2012, as the day yesterday became inevitable. Letting Facebook build the business may have made Systrom and Krieger rich and freed them to focus on product, but it made Zuckerberg the true CEO, and always, inevitably, CEOs call the shots.
Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google that don't track you.
You know your reputation is damaged badly when people start naming their test cheating software after your brand.
🙈Volkswagen detects when your tests are being run in a CI server, and makes them pass.
“Uncertain Journey” by Chiharu Shiota.
Lyft Design’s Colorbox is a color tool to produce color sets (via design.lyft.com).
Web developers and their pets: Developurrs.
List of sci-fi crimes that will become possible by 2040: Future of crime.
Using a sample of person’s DNA to genetically engineer a deadly virus that only kills said target individual and no one else.
Emojis are making us feel less of the feels.
We often distance ourselves from showing our true feelings online, keeping our internal life easy-breezy. In fact, we don’t even have emotions—we have feels. But maybe not all the feels.
The Other Art History: The Forgotten Women of Bauhaus: Gunta Stolz, Anni Albers, Marianne Brandt, Benita Koch-Otte, Otti Berger, Gertrud Arndt, Alma Siedhoff-Buscher, Margarete Heymann (via detektor.fm).
Despite being largely written out of history, these 8 women artists of the Bauhaus School created some of the most defining works of the movement.
