🎵 I hadn’t thought about this album for years - and have never really thought about the complexity of creating the cover. But the music was on strict rotation at one point back in the day.
🎵 I hadn’t thought about this album for years - and have never really thought about the complexity of creating the cover. But the music was on strict rotation at one point back in the day.
🔗 Daring Fireball: App Store Reviews Are Busted
thumbs, the system would still be gamified by developers, rewarding, as Godier aptly puts it, not the best apps but instead the apps that are best at “review prompt execution”. Apple should remove the APIs that allow apps to prompt for reviews, and forbid the practice of prompting for them.
👁️ Via 🔗 Futility Closet
The true test of happiness is whether you know what day of the week it is. A miserable man is aware of this even in his sleep. To be as cheerful and rosy-cheeked on Monday as on Saturday, and at breakfast as at dinner is to — well, make an ideal husband.
💬 W.N.P. Barbellion, The Journal of a Disappointed Man, 1919
🔗 In Gut We Trust? – Peggy Noonan
You unconsciously stand up straight in a cathedral. The art, the sweep, the ceilings are so high that you aspire even in your posture. You crouch down low to enter a darkened shack. The sound of our leadership now makes us all crouch too low.
💬 Peggy Noonan
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth.
Fucking A
🔗 Daring Fireball: How to Format 10-Digit Phone Numbers
This has annoyed me forever but never bothered to talk about it because;
who cares?
who would listen?
nothing would change?
surely there are bigger issues to resolve?
But delighted that someone is picking up the mantle.
👁️ Let this be a warning dear Signal users …
🔗 FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database
What happens is that if the text of a Signal message shows up on a lock screen, it’s stored in iOS itself, in a place where forensic investigators can gain access to it. That’s a really good reason to turn off lock-screen notifications for Signal, and to remove the text of Signal messages from its notifications entirely.
💬 Ben Werdmuller
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To those accustomed to privileges, equality feels like oppression.
💬 Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Via 🔗Alexandra Wolfe … thank you.
👁️ Further proof that measuring GDP does not accurately reflect productivity.