Letra Studio

Watched 5 December 2019, rated 3 out of 5 stars 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of my favorite films, yet I found this one very boring.

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Watched 21 November 2019, rated 5 out of 5 stars That scream really did it for me.

Great site by Corey Ginnivan for testing color contrast under different vision conditions like color blindness, cataracts, and glaucoma, and situational conditions like direct sunlight.

Zach Gage tweeted: i wish all internet comments were like the comments on nyt recipe pages Turns out a big part of why they’re so nice has to do with nomenclature: This might be because Cooking’s comments aren’t comments at all—they’re notes, a distinction

John Gruber spent some time with the new MacBook Pro: It feels a bit silly to be excited about a classic arrow key layout, a hardware Escape key, and key switches that function reliably and feel good when you type with them, but that’s where we are.

Jesse Frederik and Maurits Martijn: It might sound crazy, but companies are not equipped to assess whether their ad spending actually makes money.

Ben Thompson defends Facebook’s recent decision to let politicians lie in ads, arguing that free speech should be considered in terms of culture, not law.

This is one of the most incredibly delightful and mindblowing Turns Outs.

Rosa Lyster: “Fight club is just the matrix for incels.”

Replayed 22–28 October 2019 on Nintendo Switch, rated 4 out of 5 stars As fun and timeless as ever.

Watched 9 September – 20 October 2019, rated 4 out of 5 stars Watching Succession I often found myself at one of two extremes: either laughing and cringing at the sheer debauchery of it all, or depressively contemplating how the real world is probably even

Watched 9 May – 24 October 2019, rated 2 out of 5 stars One-Punch Man is lost.

Fred Benenson: When people talk about the effects of automation and artificial intelligence on the economy, they often fixate on the quantity of human workers.

Kevin Kelly: In the coming years our relationships with robots will become ever more complex.

What happens when you get a kid from Brooklyn, a radioactive spider, and some leitmotifs and mix them all together?

Finally watched Ethan Marcotte’s talk from this year’s New Adventures conference.

Geoffrey James: Neuroscience continues to uncover new ways that coffee and (to a lesser extent) tea and chocolate, tend to make brains healthier and more resilient.

This is fine Want to view a single image on @imgur (literally its only job)?

This is fine Oops the JS has increased by 700% (w/@tameverts) #jamstackconf pic.twitter.com/7vbmbStaQJ — Thomas Randolph (@rockerest) October 17, 2019 Also posted on Twitter

The macOS Catalina situation seems to be pretty bad.

Read 23 May – 17 October 2019, rated 3 out of 5 stars I’ve watched the first season of the show more than once, so there were no surprises to be found in this book, only details.

Played 16 October 2019 on Nintendo Switch, rated 2 out of 5 stars This is the worst-sounding video game I’ve ever played; the sound effects are frankly ridiculous.

Zeynep Tufekci wonders about China’s motivations around the Hong Kong situation: So why is China demanding significant censorship from Western companies—as in the case of this app—in the absence of a real threat?

Watched 14 October 2019, rated 4 out of 5 stars William Jackson Harper’s character is my closest audience surrogate in this film: instead of wanting to escape from this horrific, beautiful place, he wants to learn more about it.

Played 11–12 October 2019 on Apple Arcade, rated 3 out of 5 stars Cool premise, but lacks depth.

Watched 11 October 2019, rated 5 out of 5 stars I didn’t know how much I wanted this, just as much as I wasn’t expecting to cry in the end.

Nerd City: We tested fifteen thousand common words and phrases against YouTube’s bots, one by one, and determined which of those words will cause a video to be demonetized when used in the title.

Ben Thompson: I am increasingly convinced this is the point every company dealing with China will reach: what matters more, money or values?

Frank Chimero: The features of software with massive reach always have unintended consequences.

Played 28 September – 9 October 2019 on Apple Arcade, rated 4 out of 5 stars This game is awesome and what phone games should have evolved into all along.

Jeremy Keith: Jason shared some thoughts on designing progressive web apps.

Toy Story 4 looks incredible, almost hyper-realistic.

Cancel Hollywood.

Nature has put together a comprehensive series of charts that do a really great job at showing just how fucked we are.

Marcy Sutton is collecting good examples of websites and interfaces where accessibility and beautiful design go hand-in-hand.

Bastian Allgeier: I have a simple rule of thumb when it comes to programming: less code === less potential issues This rule of thumb controls my own feelings towards a solution.

Scott Jehl: Faster networks should fix our performance problems, but so far, they have had an interesting if unintentional impact on the web.

Terence Eden explains how different screen technologies, human biology, and fingerprint grease make “pixel perfection” a pointless goal: There is no grid.

Ollie Williams welcomes the new CSS properties for styling underlines: Finally we can demarcate links without sacrificing style thanks to two new CSS properties. text-underline-offset controls the position of the underline. text-decoration-thickness contr…

Rémi Parmentier: Last march, I wrote a proposal for Can I email, a website similar to caniuse.com dedicated to support in email clients.

Nathaniel Popper: Called SIM swapping, it allows hackers to take control of a victim’s phone number.

Do you want to be afraid of the dark?

Tim Kadlec explores strategies for dealing with the Save-Data header without degrading the experience, because not every user that enables it will be aware of the potential consequences: The possibilities are endless.

PC Gamer’s Steven T.

Watched 26 August 2019, rated 3 out of 5 stars It might be a case of too much of a good thing, but I was not as entranced by this one as I was with the others.

Played 16–18 August 2019 on Mac, rated 5 out of 5 stars A masterpiece of game design.

Brent Simmons: NetNewsWire 5.0 is shipping!

Watched 15 August 2019, rated 2 out of 5 stars Wake me up if Hideaki Anno ever makes another one Also posted on Letterboxd

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