Having another one of those days where micro.blog just won’t do the posting thing
Recent photos from around town
One of the neighbourhood’s ravens was doing their rounds earlier today
“Michael Tsai - Blog - iOS 15 Autocorrect”
Apple’s software development continues its steady decline.
It’s looking likely that a lot of otherwise staid tech cos will cash in on web3 over the next 2-3 years by offering services that are, essentially, “selling shovels during a gold rush”. Like “sign in with eth” support, blockchain app gateways, secure file hosting for NFTs, etc.
“(mac)OStalgia – Hello. I’m Michael.”
A bit of Mac Classic nostalgia.
“The Pipeline To Your Corporate Soul - by Alan Cooper - Dec, 2021 - Medium”
Hate it when a type + autocorrect results in you writing the opposite of what you meant. 😝
“An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States - A Working Library”
I don’t know who needs to hear this but in case it’s one of you: trauma and developing mechanisms to cope with trauma isn’t growth. Anybody telling you that you need to join a traumatic environment or workplace to grow in your job or as a person is doing you a huge disservice.
Much of what gets posted online in web dev communities (esp. Twitter) is really bad advice being given by people who are too early in their career for them to be fully hit by the consequences of said bad advice.
Not sure what can be done about it. Refuting it all is impossible.
“NFTs, or The Readymade Reversed” [PDF]
“Duchamp used the category of art to liberate materiality from commodifiable form; the NFT deploys the category of art to extract private property from freely available information.”
“Brian Eno on NFTs & Automatism”
“The idea that Ayn Rand, that Nietzsche-for-Teenagers toxin, should have had her whacky ideas enshrined in a philosophy about money is what is terrifying to me.”
“Pixels of the Week – December 19, 2021 by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.”
“Floating UI - Positioning for tooltips, popovers, dropdowns, and more”
This is the new version of/successor to Popper, I think?
Convinced that Anil Dash’s “web3 is horrible-bad but too big to fail” spiel is a precursor to an eventual web3 pivot for Glitch. Excused as a “this is a horrible-bad thing but we need to be a part of it to minimise the harm (and make tonnes of bubble money)”.