🔗 Daring Fireball: ‘What Makes an App Feel “Right” on the Mac?'
Martin has a good list here of fundamentals, but ultimately, you know it when you see it.
💬 JohnGruber
.. like ‘pornography’ and ‘art’ then?
🔗 Daring Fireball: Steve Kornacki Exits MSNBC for New Deal With NBC News and NBC Sports
They might well just switch off the lights and lock the doors at MSNBC.
💬 John Gruber
He’s not alone with that thought. Comcast has been moving deck chairs for a while now.
But this is more a demonstration of another media company bending the knee.
🔗 Long Live RSS - Phil Windley - via Doc Searls
A timely reminder. It’s RSS in general - good, but Phil also writes specifically about Substack.
I found that if you enter
/rssafter the URL for an author or category page, you get RSS for that author or category.
Meanwhile Substack’s own help. - says to tack on ‘feed’ not ‘rss’.
I do find that both work - and sometimes neither - which is more often than not because of the beginning of the URL …
Replace “your” with the name of your Substack publication.
It isn’t always clear (to me at least) what that ‘your’ replacement should be.
Bonus - If you use Reeder
If you just put the URL https://
Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.
💬 Ernest Becker
… and then I thought of 🔗🎵 The Overview
🔗 Mathematicians uncover the logic behind how people walk in crowds | ScienceDaily
.. not read it yet .. but wondering f the equation includes parameters around the phone that is inevitably in people’s hands, more often than not being looked at.
🔗Authoritarian Grift Meets the Grind of Justice
America (that country that promoted itself (past tense) as the beacon of democracy) continues to be the ONLY country in the world that does nothing to stop these kinds of people.
Why would anybody believe - ever - that America stands for democracy?
🔗 Pockets of Belfast - Gapingvoid
On 20th March, in celebration of the UN’s World Happiness day, the BBC’s Mark Easton conducted a little social experiment: dropping ten wallets (with money and his phone number inside) on the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
He got them all back.
Makes me happy - and today isn’t even World Happiness Day!
🔗 The Mediocrity of Modern Google
But here’s the thing about tech – and I’ve been saying this for years – technology’s self-obsolescence is a more effective regulator than any government agency. Google, despite its trillion-dollar market cap and infrastructure advantages, risks becoming the first of the mega-caps to fade into irrelevance as the internet evolves beyond the “10 blue links” paradigm that made it a giant.
Me - never been overly into the land of Google. Yes - I have an account - and of course I have Google Drive - but it is not my ‘go to’ - unless I am forced into it because a business I am working with has decided it hates Microsoft and has enabled Google. I do think it is hard to beat their ‘office suite’ - for the collaboration part of it - BUT I would never consider writing a doc or knocking out a spreadsheet on Google if I wasn’t expecting somebody to be collaborating with me.
In my world …
GoogleSheets Airtable
GoogleDocs Craft
GMail AppleMail/Spark mainly running my own domains in some data center
Google Search Perplexity
GDrive iCloud/Dropbox
GooglePhotos et al. Apple
What else do people use Google for - I forget.
🔗 Were Your Managers Managing Your Decline?
This is “managed decline,” – the art of overseeing failure with exceptional documentation. Managed decline hides under terms like cost control, risk minimization, and streamlining, but it guarantees one thing: job security for managers. The EU and UK exemplify this, where managed economic entropy and decline have become a boon for the managerial class. Managers multiply like Gremlins in water.
🔗 Division is easier than connection - Seth Godin - just reminding us all of good behaviour.