Read Sam Kriss’s article The Internet is already over.
Exploring Toronto's Restaurant Inspection Data with DineSafe
As a lover of good food, I’ve always been curious about restaurant health inspections. So, I decided to take matters into my own hands and create a tool that makes it easy to explore Toronto’s DineSafe data.
— myles
Arc App's JSON Export to SQLite
I started working on a Dogsheep utility for processing Arc App’s Daily (or Monthly) JSON exports into a SQLite database. This provides the ability to analysis the places I visit and activities I am doing in Datasette.
— myles
Finished reading Human Rights, Robot Wrongs.
Human Rights, Robot Wrongs
Susie Alegre
I just finished reading Health and Safety, which should be required reading for ravers who are 35+.
Health and Safety A Trip Through the Age of Dissociation
Emily Witt
Finished reading Good Material.
Good Material A Novel
Dolly Alderton
Finished reading Sex Goblin.
Sex Goblin
Lauren Cook
😢 My Stupid Weather Twitter Profile Bot Got Suspended
My little weather-updating Twitter bot was finally suspended after seven years.
— myles
Finished reading Eating to Extinction.
Finished reading Last Exit to Brooklyn.
Last Exit to Brooklyn A Novel
Selby, Hubert, Jr.
Finished reading Neuromancer.
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Finished reading Vernon Subutex 3: A Novel.
Finished reading Vernon Subutex 2: A Novel.
Finished reading Vernon Subutex 1: A Novel.
I spent the last 30 minutes trying to figure out why my tests weren’t failing. It turned out it was because I forgot to prepend test_ to the function 🙃.
This is some dystopian stuff.
Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticism of Warehouses:
Amazon is not the only company that relies on what publicists call “employee advocates.” Lizz Kannenberg, the director of brand strategy at Sprout Social, which advises companies on social media use, said that employee advocacy had developed over the last three to five years.
Bromwich, J. E. (2019, August 15)
Template errors in Laravel are the hardest bugs to figure out.
This is 100% the fault of June and not the user:
June CEO Matt Van Horn says that owners, not the oven, are at fault. “We’ve seen a few cases where customers have accidentally activated their oven preheat via a device, figure your cell phone,” he tells The Verge. “So imagine if I were to be in the June app clicking recipes and I accidentally tapped something that preheated my oven, we’ve seen a few cases of that.”
Carman, A. (2019, August 14). Smart ovens have been turning on overnight and preheating to 400 degrees.