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Our Lives Are Becoming Comfortable Illusions
Technology

Our Lives Are Becoming Comfortable Illusions

Once you start to see this, you’ll see why it wreaks havoc on people’s minds: Reality isn’t simple. It’s complex and messy. Life is full of uncertainty so naturally

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Google

Google, Facebook, and The Creepy Line

Google also makes most of their money via this same type of keyword-based advertising that doesn’t require any search-history tracking.So why do they track it all then? Because Google is not

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    Shawn
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Technology

Media’s Blame Game

When you have sales guys (they are mostly guys) in charge, decisions will reflect their usual approach, which is to maximize their personal gains as quickly as possible, cash in their bonus checks,

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    Shawn
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Topics & Assemblies
Software Development

Topics & Assemblies

“So I really believe, guys, that we are in a war of Blobs versus Chunks. We are in a war between giant, unstructured blobs of content, and clean, well-structured fields of content that

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Storybook: UI component explorer for frontend developers
Software Development

Storybook: UI component explorer for frontend developers

Storybook is a user interface development environment and playground for UI components. The tool enables developers to create components independently and showcase components interactively in an isolated development environment.Storybook runs outside of

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    Shawn
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JAMStack 2019
Cool Tools

JAMStack 2019

A modern architecture —Create fast and secure sites and dynamic apps with JavaScript, APIs, and pre-rendered Markup, served without web servers.

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    Shawn
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Media

Tracking-based ads, generally called adtech, do not sponsor publications

Getting the world to mistake direct marketing for real advertising is one of the great magic tricks of all time: a world record for misdirection in business.Tracking-based ads, generally called adtech, do

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    Shawn
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Security

A Plan to Stop Breaches With Dead Simple Database Encryption

In such a “client-side” encryption scheme, databases utilizing Field Level Encryption will not only require a system login, but will additionally require specific keys to process and decrypt specific chunks of data locally

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    Shawn
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TikTok Times a Billion
Media

TikTok Times a Billion

In a major milestone for a Chinese technology company, the short-video app TikTok, known as Douyin (?? d?uy?n) in its home country, was downloaded over 1 billion times as of earlier this

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    Shawn
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Cool Tools

Cool API Tools

https://www.getvero.com/https://www.imgix.com/https://www.gitbook.com/https://getstream.io

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Technology

Neal Stephenson – Why I Am a Bad Correspondent

Writing novels is hard, and requires vast, unbroken slabs of time. Four quiet hours is a resource that I can put to good use. Two slabs of time, each two hours long, might

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    Shawn
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Software Development

We Don’t Sell Saddles Here

We get 0 points for just getting a feature out the door if it is not actually contributing to making the experience better for users, or helping them to understand Slack, or helping

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    Shawn
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Technology

Virality Is History

We all watch different TV shows and read different books and listen to different music. So nothing catches fire and blows up, because no one’s got the time for what they’re

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    Shawn
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Technology

Computers and Video Surveillance

It used to be that surveillance cameras were passive. Maybe they just recorded, and no one looked at the video unless they needed to. Maybe a bored guard watched a dozen different screens,

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    Shawn
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Cool Tools

Free Mac Security Tools

LuLu – In today’s connected world, it is rare to find an application or piece of malware that doesn’t talk to a remote server. LuLu is the free, open firewall for Macs

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    Shawn
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LMMS – Let’s make music
Cool Tools

LMMS – Let’s make music

Produce music with your computer by creating melodies and beats, synthesizing and mixing sounds, arranging samples and much more.Playback instruments, samples and plugins with a typing or MIDI keyboard in a user-friendly

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    Shawn
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Software Development

Why I Switched From Visual Studio Code To JetBrains WebStorm

In my current project, I met a developer who was really confused that I was using an editor and not an IDE for the development of large business applications. First, I did not

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    Shawn
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Cool Tools

Mac Open Web

A collection of open and indie Mac, iOS, and web apps that help promote the open web. Updated May 20, 2019Submit any new links & issues on this project at GithubSource: Mac Open

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    Shawn
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Design

Good Things By Their Nature Are Fragile

In 1988 Laura and I created a three-stage model of what we called “living process.” We called the three stages Good Thing, Rut, and Transition. As we saw it, Good Thing becomes Rut,

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    Shawn
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Ethical Alternatives & Resources
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Ethical Alternatives & Resources

Source: Ethical Alternatives & Resources – ethical.netEthical.net has compiled a list of resources for “discovering ethical alternatives to stuff”. All kinds of other services and apps that tend to be open source,

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    Shawn
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Haiku Animator
Cool Tools

Haiku Animator

Motion design for your team’s workflowAnimations are hard. Collaborating between designers and developers, even harder.Luckily for you, Haiku Animator lets you bring motion design to production, starting with your design tools

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    Shawn
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Software Development

React UI Libs

Jetbrains – Ring UIPrimeReactMaterial-UIANT Designand a bonus one for React NativeReact Native Paper Think of them as the React versions ofhttps://material.angular.io/

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    Shawn
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Software Development

Proton Native – React Native for the desktop

On mobile, it used to be hard to build beautiful cross-platform apps. Then React Native came along, giving us a seamless way to build user interfaces and manage state in code, all while

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    Shawn
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Technology

Heroku vs. a private server vs. Kubernetes

Heroku vs. a private server vs. KubernetesUse Heroku (or something similar) whenever you can. It’s easy and painless. But sometimes you need disk storage, or your own database server, or a few

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    Shawn
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Technology

Magic

Magic at its very core is simply limiting the number of people that know the secret.

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    Shawn
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