Finished reading Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico.
I finished reading Ballerina by Patrick Modiano and translated by Mark Polizzotti. This one passage stuck with me:
Most of the time, during our walks throughout Paris or on bus rides, we didn’t speak. The silence between us was a much stronger bond than words. We were like those people who walk side by side, never saying a thing but always taking the long way around.
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 🙃.
Data-Driven Design Is Killing Our Instincts, valuing data over design instinct puts metrics over users by Benek Lisefski.
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.
Ugly Gerry is a font created by US congressional districts.
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.
Listening to Tooth and Tail’s soundtrack by Austin Wintory gives my chores pomp and circumstance.
Thinknum, a dataset service for revealing strategic movements within companies, made their pitch deck a comic book.
