Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for June 5th from 13:57 to 10:32:

• iPadOS impressions: flexible and powerful, but is it intuitive? – The Verge – Early days of HIG for iPadOS, clearly
• The Twitter Rules –
• Training a Neural Network with Metal Performance Shaders | Apple Developer Documentation –
• YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views | Hacker News – michael jackson eating popcorn
• Elizabeth Warren Recognizes 2020 Campaign Staff’s Union | HuffPost – This is a really good sign.

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for May 27th from 11:38 to 15:41:

• Solving civic tech challenges at Code for America Summit | diginomica –
• iOS 13 tidbits: Smart charging, auto close Safari tabs, Siri voice improvements in Maps, more – "When you take a screenshot in Safari, you now have the option of capturing the entire page. To do this, simply take a screenshot as you normally would, then tap the screenshot preview that appears in the lower-left corner. From there, move the slider along the top to “Full Page.” Now, you have a savable PDF of the entire webpage." – now do this on desktop Safari
• Inside USDA’s Farmer-First Approach to Digital Transformation – Nextgov –
• SXSWi: Web Awards Honor 2009’s Big Names, Underdogs | WIRED –
• The Infinite Jukebox | Music Machinery –
• Opinion | It’s 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning – The New York Times – everyone's getting in on the spec fic

  hopefully ian mcewan doesn't get invited to contribute

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for May 25th from 19:48 to 20:45:

• Designing a Workflow Engine Database –
• Technopath – TV Tropes –
• For Want of a Nail – TV Tropes –
• Powers as Programs – TV Tropes –
• Everyone is a Super – TV Tropes –
• Mass Super-Empowering Event – TV Tropes –
• True Names (Literature) – TV Tropes –
• Sanderson’s Second Law | Brandon Sanderson –
• Sanderson’s First Law – TV Tropes –
• Write a Functional Magic System / So You Want To – TV Tropes –
• Everything Is Online – TV Tropes –

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for May 21st from 17:39 to 17:53:

• Close To The Sun review | Rock Paper Shotgun –
• Whispers Of A Machine Review | Rock Paper Shotgun –
• Bullet Time –
• Amazon preparing a wearable that ‘reads human emotions,’ says report – The Verge –
• Warning Signs – VICE – What happens when a predator abuses a powerful and popular piece of technology?
• Somehow I Became Respectable –

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for May 21st from 12:00 to 16:46:

• THE POWER by Naomi Alderman | Kirkus Reviews –
• BODIES: InkRx | Flash Forward –
• Opinion | The Internet Security Apocalypse You Probably Missed – The New York Times –
• Nomen Ludi – Boing Boing –
• BOOK REVIEW / A twerp’s best moment ever: ‘Fever Pitch’ – Nick Hornby: Gollancz, 13.99 | The Independent –
• WIRED Book Club: We’re reading Lost in a Good Game, by Pete Etchells | WIRED UK –

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for May 21st from 10:42 to 11:41:

• When building new products goes wrong | Dropbox Design –
• Santa Monica tracks citizens’ health, happiness, and quality of life – and it uses this data to drive decision-making – "The city has since continued to gather data and refine its approach, and in 2017 it published the second Wellbeing Index. The project revealed a number of areas with room for improvement. For example, the 2017 Index showed that only 38% of citizens were active for more than 20 minutes per day. It also highlighted that fresh fruit and vegetable consumption was particularly low, at roughly half the national average."
• 20 CDs curated by Steve Jobs & the iPod team | nobi.com –
• Designing the Future of Design – A Vision for Collecting Digital Design at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
• Want to Terraform Mars? This Game Gives You the Chance – this but for the climate emergency on earth

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for May 20th from 11:22 to 08:54:

• War Stories: Lucas Pope and what almost sunk Return of the Obra Dinn –
• War Stories: Lucas Pope and what almost sunk Return of the Obra Dinn | Ars Technica –
• Observation review: a horror story through the eyes of AI – Polygon –
• Plane Finder AR App – Plane Finder –
• The Definitive Guide to iCloud Photos in 2019 – AppleToolBox –
• Michael Tsai – Blog – The State of Apple’s Developer Documentation –
• The Command Line In 2004 –

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for May 19th from 15:07 to 09:21:

• Uber, Lyft drivers manipulate fares at DCA causing artificial price surges | Hacker News –
• Uber, Lyft drivers manipulate fares at Reagan National causing artificial price surges | WJLA –
• Congress should grow the Digital Services budget, which more than pays for itself | TheHill –
• Sony’s Deal With Microsoft Blindsided Its Own PlayStation Team – Bloomberg –
• The Real Reason Fans Hate the Last Season of Game of Thrones – Scientific American Blog Network –

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for May 18th from 21:34 to 12:40:

• Alt-Frequencies is an interactive audio drama about government conspiracy and time travel – The Verge –
• Two Calls for Tech Regulation: The French Government Report and the Christchurch Call – Lawfare –
• The Hypersonic Weaponised Yogurt Award Nomination https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=8820 –
• steve rogers: pr disaster | gen | 4k –
• GitHub – kkuchta/css-only-chat: A truly monstrous async web chat using no JS whatsoever on the frontend –

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for May 17th from 03:31 to 14:05:

• iPhones cost US$800, I was offered a job at Foxconn to assemble them for US$1.7 per hour, 40 hours per week | South China Morning Post –
• Who Cares? : On Nags, Martyrs, the Women Who Give Up, and the Men Who Don’t Get It –
• How the First Smartphone Came Out in 1994, But Flopped –
• Computing History on Twitter: “This is a brilliant addition to our collection, a pre production model of a Philips CDi 180/20.… “ – nnngh
• François Vogel . HP Picture Book –