A prototype of the now halted device includes dual-cameras, a key differentiator from market leaders like the Apple Watch.
Source: Meta Halts Development of Apple Watch Rival with Two Cameras →
Cameras on a watch never made sense to me. Why would you have that?
[J]ust doing it once today is ultimately the only way to become “the kind of person” who does that sort of thing on a regular basis anyway. Otherwise (and believe me, I’ve been there) you’re merely the kind of person who spends your life drawing up plans and schemes for how you’re going to become a different kind of person at some point in the future which never quite arrives.
This whole essay hit close to home – I needed this reminder.
People almost invariably don’t want to hurt other people and feel bad when they do. The fact that we can feel a lack of respect or kindness in a given social situation is evidence that those good qualities are the water we normally swim in.
Source: Cynicism is Boring →
When writing, and also when doing research for writing, it’s important to get the details right, but that doesn’t always mean what you might think. Economy of detail is usually better than excess, which raises the critical question about which details matter most.
An insightful read this, Verisimilitude by Matt Gemmell. I found this suggestion really on the mark.
Research is a distillation. You’ll spend two hours reading, to get four paragraphs of notes, which provide eight words of story — but those eight words will take the reader into the world you’ve created, and create the impression that your character really is there, or really knows about this topic. Just make sure it’s either unremarkable that they would know those things, or that their knowledge has been explicitly accounted for.
While writing short stories that I based on some amount of research, I myself have struggled at times to know how much is enough. This was a good reminder from Matt.
To be lonely, then, is to desire an absent want. It is to feel an emptiness that remains unsatisfied — to feel isolated, in need, or abandoned, but with no one to help. Yet solitude is another thing altogether. To be solitary is to retreat into yourself, and to take great pleasure in your own company.
Source: Solitude is not loneliness. Here’s the key philosophical difference. →
It’s best to put emoji at the very end of your written content which also means not using them as bullet points. This practice will help you avoid creating any clarity issues that could be caused by an icon’s coded description interfering with the rest of your copy.
Good tip to make Emoji accessible. And a brilliant resource this, overall.
In line with one of my recent posts about writing for audience, this is a wonderful quote from Leo Tolstoy (h/t James Clear).
If you care too much about being praised, in the end you will not accomplish anything serious. Let the judgments of others be the consequence of your deeds, not their purpose.
Suppose China ends up invading and successfully annexing Taiwan; what would happen to the 2.7 million registered domains under .tw?
Source: What happens to TLDs when their country stops existing? →
Another reason I tend to prefer a few specific TLDs.
[D]esigning a language to be minimalistic, to have fewer concepts, and to choose primitives that combine well together, is a good way to make the language easier to learn. If the programming language has fewer concepts, there’s less to learn, and your level of proficiency will increase faster.
I want you to know that most of your life will happen in the gray spaces between bliss and heartbreak, between having everything lock into place and having it all fall apart. That’s where the grace is.