Author: Yeri Tiete
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Dark Patterns
The Pudding once again has a good publication to detail Dark Patterns used among some big brands. Too few people know what they are and that they serve a purpose. When you sign up for digital service, sometimes they make it difficult to unsubscribe. You see these tricks every time you order a product online,…
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Billion-year Lego clock
Just insane 😅 — but also so educational! Via Kottke.
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PoC: Betteruptime + Python-kasa
Content Update The provided scripts have been updated on 16 Jul 2023. Specifically the SmartStrip part was not working as intended. I’ve been a big fan of Betteruptime. I’ve started using it to monitor all my assets online (websites, DNS, ping, successful script runs) as well as my servers (using heartbeats). I have a few…
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killwarp
Is your company forcing Cloudflare Warp on you, and are you running on a Mac (with sudo access)? It probably sucks, spies on you, does MitM attacks, breaks most video conferencing tools, and is generally not very stable… Also… Zero trust! Add this function to your .bashrc or .zshrc (whichever shell you’re using*): Open a…
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To scale: Time
Via Kottke.
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Fascism
The War Department thought it was important for Americans to understand the tactics fascists would use to take power in the United States. They would try to gain power “under the guise of ‘super-patriotism’ and ‘super-Americanism.’” And they would use three techniques: First, they would pit religious, racial, and economic groups against one another to…
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Cancer
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Tracy Young Speaking at Female Founders Conference (2015)
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Designing an (unofficial) transit map
As Jansen notes, this is not how a design process would work in the real world — there’s no user testing or competing stakeholders to please — but from a purely aesthetic and functional standpoint, it’s still an interesting challenge and puzzle to attempt to solve. Source: Kottke
