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Reading List 2020 – mkaz.blog
Looking at past posts and it looks like I haven’t published my reading list review in a few years. The previous posts on the site are for 2017, 2016, and 2015. I think I got lazy and let Good…
Wholesome places to discuss tech away from Twitter - Piccalilli
It may seem like it, but Twitter isn’t the center of everything for tech. Here’s some places you can hang out away from Twitter that are very good.
On Weaponised Design - A New Design Congress Essay
The lives of digital platform users are at odds with how these systems are conceived and built. Weaponised design – a process that allows for harm of users within the defined bounds of a designed system – is facilitated by practitioners who are oblivious to the politics of digital infrastructure or consider their design practice output to be apolitical. Although users find themselves subject to traumatic events with increasing regularity, weaponised design is yet to be addressed by the multi-faceted field of interface and infrastructure design.
Getgee: Tools for self-governance Part 1 | Heather Marsh
G is a universal database and trust network which can be used for the most popular software applications today. A universal database and trust network will return control of our data to the users w…
About The New Design Congress
A research organisation that recognises all infrastructure as expressions of power, and sees interfaces and technologies as social, economic, political and ecological accelerants.
How to use Focus modes for notifications on iOS 15
One of the most powerful new features for Apple’s software.
Use Keyboard Shortcuts
Mac OS iOS In Spark for Mac, you can forget about icons and buttons using your keyboard to perform faster.
There are four sets of shortcuts available: Spar
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The Cable Forum - Lizzie McGuire and Disney Part Ways
The Cable Forum - Lizzie McGuire and Disney Part Ways
Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Year Under Fire
When Sundar Pichai woke up November 1 to prepare for an appearance at a conference in New York, Google’s CEO, an engineer by training, had likely hoped to tout the leaps in artificial intelligence and cloud computing that Google had made in his three years as the company’s leader. But any hope ...
The AOL CD-ROM Collection : Free Software : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive
In the early 1990s, the service provider America On-Line (AOL) initiated a new carpet-bombing approach to acquiring new members, sending free CD-ROMs throughout the USA offering trial access to the service. This approach grew AOL from 200,000 accounts to over 22 million.Along the way, millions of...
You are what you do, not what you say or write – Baldur Bjarnason
Which podcast apps will my custom audio RSS link work with? – Patreon Help Center
This article will go over which mobile apps can be used to listen to the audio posts your creator publishes by using the RSS link for both iOS and Android. It will go over what an RSS feed is and h...
The M1, macOS Monterey and the next Mac power shift
While the Mac isn't going to stop being a power tool, the next few years will change its nature in some fundamental ways.
Baauer: Aa
After surviving his runaway viral hit "Harlem Shake," Baauer returns with a full-length on which appearances by Future, Pusha T, M.I.A. and others function like power-ups, allowing the album to ratchet up in excitement.
Brave’s nontracking search engine is now in beta
Pro-privacy browser Brave, which has been testing its own brand search engine for several months — operating a waitlist where brave (ha!) early adopters could kick the tyres of an upstart alternative in internet search — has now launched the tool, Brave Search, in global beta. Users int…
Alt-Text as Poetry
Alt-text is an essential part of web accessibility. It is often overlooked altogether or understood through the lens of compliance, as an unwelcome burden to be met with minimum effort. How can we instead approach alt-text thoughtfully and creatively?
A (very) quick (and rushed) look at Windows 11 running on a Lumia 950 XL after a day of work
Basically what you expected
It's just Windows 11
on a smaller screen
and everything works just like Windows 10.
Performance improvements are subject to the interpretation of the viewer.
Recording Camera: whatever I had on hand to do this super quickly, don't ask, it's not what you want to use to make videos. (do not make videos using tablets like I do, just don't)
Student gets Windows 11 running on a Windows Phone
Lumia devices keep getting modded to run full Windows.
Reply All | Gimlet
Reply All is hosted by Alex Goldman and Emmanuel Dzotsi.
Kobo Elipsa review: A power user’s e-reader that’s unlike any other
Kobo’s new e-reader is one of the best note-taking devices on the market, period.
Microsoft and Google prepare to battle again after ending six-year truce
The gloves are off once again for the two tech giants.
Zagreb's Museum of Broken Relationships – Zagreb, Croatia - Atlas Obscura
Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.
Slack launches Huddles, Discord-like audio calls you can hop in and out of
Slack’s new features are designed for remote work.
Where Does It End? | Samuel Stein
A housing policy advocate has some questions for the denizens of billionaire row.
Monthly Log: June 2021
The future of cinema is a punk-ass Twitch collective
Racer Trash is doing something very different.
Defector
Defector is an employee-owned sports and culture website brought to you by the former staffers of Deadspin.
The Attention-Hunger Artist
A psychologist weighs in on Bo Burnham's 'Inside'