The Illusion of Control in Web Design (via rev.vu).

Start simply. Code defensively. User-test the heck out of it. Recognize the chaos. Embrace it. And build resilient web experiences that will work no matter what the internet throws at them.

While Facebook Flounders [it does?], Women Build Their Own Social Networks.

In the midst of all the hubbub about Facebook privacy concerns, another social network launched over the weekend. That network, called Maverick, isn’t trying to compete with the Menlo Park-based giant, though. Instead, it’s focused on serving just one subset of the population: tween girls.

How to land the largest passenger aircraft in the world!

Let’s destroy Bitcoin.

Three ways Bitcoin could be brought down, co-opted, or made irrelevant.

The Lost Tail.

Years ago I was obsessed with adding return statements to JavaScript code in Helma (I called those “holy returns”).

Nowadays I became obsessed hunting down variables leaking into the global JS namespace.

Not sure whether to file this under OCD…

Magenta Demos (via magenta.tensorflow.org).

A list of apps powered by Magenta models including fun toys, creative applications, research notebooks, and professional-grade tools that will benefit a wide range of users.

Web Share Target API (via github.com).

I’m constantly worried that on the web platform we are creating unintended silos by making it harder to get data in and out of web sites and apps, more importantly I worry that the data only flows one way: from the web to apps, because apps can be in all the places that users expect them to be on their devices.

Coney Island sheet music – of and for the people! (Via twitter.com.)

Relevant: Cross-country skiers looking like musical notes.

Remembering the ’70s activist group that tried to save us from the tech industry.

Computer People for Peace were ahead of their time.

This! In 1971. pic.twitter.com/hTbFq1gZff

— Simon aLindgren (@simonlindgren) January 10, 2018