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
Especially those at the pinnacle that've lost touch with their customers.
Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.
Source: Pluralistic
I've just learned that Amazon Kindle killed the book loaning feature... Something they initially used as a selling point when I got my first Kindle in 2017 (or whenever it was).
Started updating my Debian systems from Bullseye to Bookworm.
The first thing I noticed was that ethX renamed to enXY.
To get back to the old naming scheme, you can fix this by adding the following in /etc/network/interfaces:
rename enX0=eth0
rename enX1=eth1And reboot.
Via Kottke.
Via Kottke.
Truly wish we learned all this in school. Would've attended school significantly more often... ;)
This is sobering: in an ad for the United Nations Global Compact, the words of Carl Sagan from nearly 40 years ago warn us of the necessity for urgent action on climate change, deforestation, and extinction.
Source: Kottke & Colosal.
For my Mastodon instance, I use Cloudflare R2; mainly for two reasons:
While I didn't care much about storage any more, I still wanted to make sure it was kept in check, also for two reasons:
I’m very fortunate to have a handful of new trees, some grass and public seating bookend the street I live in. One of my favourite times of the day to be out on my balcony is dusk, because when the sun starts setting and the hustle and bustle of the city subsides, a group of Indian myna birds, attracted by that greenery, playfully chirps and flies between the trees. The tweeting draws out neighbours, too, and creates a beautiful moment of connection through nature in an otherwise man-made environment.
My local council recently bought a bunch of warehouses and turned them into a public park with a playground. What used to be a barren, semi-industrial area suddenly came alive with people and plants. Everyone visiting the park looked in surprise at the playground wondering the same thing: ‘Where have all of these kids been hiding?’
Today’s urban spaces are designed for cars and commerce, making them particularly hostile towards kids. With most streets being considered unsafe, there has been a huge drop in outdoor play. This study, for example, claims that today just 27% of children play outside their homes, compared to 71% of the baby boomer generation. Or look at this fascinating map showing how an eight year old’s ‘range of exploration’ has changed from ~10 km a few generations ago to a mere ~300 metres today.
