Issue 9
Why Web 3.0 matters and what you should know about it: Privacy, don't call it a comeback. 🚨 77 hand-drawn space icons that’ll take you into unexplored territories (Freebie)
Let's celebrate love.
I have some controversial thoughts to add to the Logan Paul thing...I watched his early Vines and they aren't bad.
However, I'd always recommend WInamp as a nostalgic drug of choice. It's back. In JavaScript form. But still has the 'easy to wipe a carefully curated playlist' feature.
Possibly the hardest thing about love is finding the right words to express everything; the good news is that neural networks can be trained to give you the best options. Me love have.
Finally, after years of dominance, Facebook has had a rough couple of years. Fake news, unwitting election rigger and content woes are all covered in Wired's story.
🕷️ Design & Development Arena
Why Web 3.0 matters and what you should know about it: Privacy, don't call it a comeback.
medium.com
🚨 77 hand-drawn space icons that’ll take you into unexplored territories (Freebie)
smashingmagazine.com
Coding without a keystroke: The hands-free creation of a full video game
arstechnica.com
🥇 World of WordPress
Why hackers are targeting your WordPress site
wpmudev.org
Scope & Features: Gutenberg's progress and what's left
github.com
The state of managed WordPress hosting in 2018
presslabs.com
February 2018 WordPress comics
codeinwp.com
👩💻 Misc Tech
🐮 Bovine Mirror: Facial Recognition for Cows Is Here
gizmodo.com
Your Valentine's cheat sheet is here: Candy Heart messages written by a neural network #StankLove
aiweirdness.com
HTTP codes as Valentine’s Day comics – Hani Lim
medium.com
The All-Furby Organ. More inhuman than cow-face recognition
digg.com
A new version of VLC with a bunch of cool stuff: HDR and 360-degree video and pretty much every codec that has been and ever will be
arstechnica.com
kelseyhightower/nocode: Write nothing; deploy nowhere.
github.com
The. Best. Music. Player. Ever. Winamp is back living in your browser. 🤘 🤘
jordaneldredge.com
The Disconnect is a magazine of commentary, fiction and poetry. Free to read, if you turn off your wi-fi.
thedisconnect.co
🚍 Black Mirror mirror on the wall
Facebook moderator: I had to be prepared to see anything 😱
bbc.com
[Partial Paywall] Inside Facebook's hellish two years. Their cover image is brutal.
wired.com
There's no time for fussing and fighting..anymore: Facebook works it out with Apple to test news paywalls
techcrunch.com
🔖 Nice work if you can get it
The Winter Olympics could cost U.S. businesses $1.7 billion in productivity. Counter-point: midday breaks can improve concentration, creativity and efficiency. 🏂
thriveglobal.com
Go get 'em kids: Kansas scrambles to change rules after 6 teens enter Governor's race. Also Kansas rules for candidacy don't restrict animals entering the race.
npr.org
Outro 🎤
That's another week of techie gossip and strangeness. Feel free to forward this to anyone who might need a break from the Winter Olympics.
Your best friend, Chris
