Best Day of My Life [#1]
He anticipates this to be the best day of his life. He wants to relive this same day repeatedly. She believes she can help him. Or just herself.
From a social, civic and individual empowerment perspective ceding control of fundamental online infrastructure to a single company is terrible. This is why Mozilla exists.
Microsoft adopts Chromium, and Mozila’s not impressed. We need competition.
I enjoy the cricket matches in Australia. They start broadcasting very early in India, and end conveniently for me to begin my workday. Especially if it is a test-match series against India.
No company launches as many chat services as Google shutdowns every few years. Hangouts first, Allo now. They just can’t their strategy for messaging right. And they seem to be driven too much by engineers to say no to a new one being launched.
Aha, the microcast Third-Person Voice is approved by Apple and is available on iTunes now. Do subscribe, of course, only if you want to join me as I struggle with, but attempt to get better at narrating the short stories I write. Hope this goes as planned.🤞🏽🙂
I am always split on supporting both a dark and light mode of one’s website, especially for the text-heavy one. I think one should decide what the design for her site is to be - users have reading modes in the browsers where they can select how they want to view the text.
I subconsciously ignore anything listicle these days, so much so that I do not even read the complete title. Same applies to ads. I guess this says something about the state of my mind while on internet - always on the defensive.
The Weekly Digest [01/12]
🔗 Directory of Hyperlink Nodes by Brad
🔗 pixelbook experiences by Frank
💬 Sharing Family Photos
🔗 Passive iOS Games by Jon
🔗 Must-listen Podcasts by Josh
I recently (and nervously) published the first episode of a microcast featuring the short stories by me. I’ve no idea if the experiment would play out well. But it’s something that I always wanted to attempt and put out there. It satisfies a long-standing itch of my curious mind.
I attempted recording and publishing a microcast for the first time with Wavelength for micro.blog - boy, @manton has made audio posts so simple. It’s almost too easy for anyone and everyone to post quick thoughts as audio snippets. It can potentially change the podcasting space.
Introducing Third-Person Voice [#0]
Introducing Third-Person Voice - a weekly microcast, featuring short stories penned and narrated by me. This is a teaser, episode 0 if I may, of what’s to come.
We would soon be able to ask Alexa to play music from Apple Music too. That’s a welcome development, especially for playlists and radio. And so not from Apple’s typical playbook. Especially with.. HomePod. But I guess Apple’s focus on their services business now calls for that.
The 96-year-old painter who saved a village →
When a former soldier learned that his village was going to be demolished 10 years ago, he picked up a brush and started painting — and he hasn’t stopped since.
Such a fascinating account and a beautiful gallery of an artist at work.
Although the most attractive thing about being an astronaut is that they get to go to space, the truth is that they spend almost all their time working on the ground.
A fact I’m reminded of every time there’s an article or a report on astronauts.
Google keeps struggling with their re-entry in China market - another day, another leak from internal sources against Dragonfly. I do not remember any project from any organization that has seen so much friction internally, playing out in public. No side is ready to back down.
It’s good to see Walt Mossberg try DuckDuckGo and come out impressed. Of all the services from Google, search is the most frictionless for anyone to replace. Other being Chrome.
That doesn’t bode well for Google’s business. And am sure Google’s aware of that.
Tech community looks pretty divided on the benefits of Project Fi, now Google Fi. Few say it’s the best thing to happen to the US telecommunications market, others are unimpressed suggesting Fi in current form won’t change much of the market. Curious.
Like the open office, the loud restaurant seems to have overstayed its welcome. That’s because loud restaurants are more profitable.
Unfortunately, fine dining has become synonymous with dimly lit, noisy, cramped spaces today.
I’m not comfortable with Gmail guessing the next word I may write as I compose a mail - more so as it’s correct more often than not. I hate that am so predictable.
Using Google services is a constant battle - you hope you beat the AI overlords, but you just feed them rather.
A Former Facebook Employee Said The Company Has A “Black People Problem” →
“In some buildings, there are more ‘Black Lives Matter’ posters than there are actual black people”
Inclusion’s often misinterpreted, and so efforts to address it are misguided, at most organizations.
Am almost 2/3rd into A Short History of Nearly Everything and I do not think I enjoy every part of it. There are chapters which I just do not have any interest in. Mainly around Biology. I guess there’s a reason why I gave up studying about internals of my body way earlier.
Inspiration and motivation cannot be concocted in any science laboratory. A fact that’s both fortunate and unfortunate.
You need neither PWA nor AMP to make your website load fast →
Google hardly invented CDNs and async script loading. But nobody cared because old tech and good practices are never as tempting as something branded as “new”.
Bingo. Just rework your JS.
I had no idea the live-action remake of The Lion King was also in works — and the teaser is already out. I am not sure why Disney is suddenly so inclined to release these live-action remakes of classics. The Jungle Book, Aladdin and now this too.
A great animated video from Apple for Holidays about a creative girl who keeps her creativity boxed in, never letting it get out. And the message to “Share Your Gifts” is perfect. Interesting that it features a MacBook front and center, not an iPad. They still love their Macs.