Posts from October 2018

sidebar.io
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Sidebar
Welcome to Newsletter Wednesday! (I just made that up so it's a thing now.) Sidebar shares five daily links about web design and it's a good one to subscribe to via email. I've recently been diving down a microcopy best practices rabbit hole and I'm blaming Sidebar for that.
Recommended · Oct 31st, 2018, 8:03 am
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David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
This is a fun site to browse for visual inspiration. It has high-resolution scans of historic maps and map-adjacent documents that you can zoom around to see details. I've been going back to the data visualization category and the illustrated maps are pretty great too. Here's the origin story of this project.
Recommended · Oct 30th, 2018, 8:03 am
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Evelyn Hofer's immersive New York
Some amazing architecture and portrait photography of NYC in the 60's and 70's. [via Tecznts] There are a few more photographs by Hofer at Galerie m Bochum.
Recommended · Oct 29th, 2018, 7:34 pm
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Fall Path
Photos · Oct 28th, 2018, 1:00 pm
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American democracy’s built-in bias towards rural Republicans
"In no other two-party system does the party that receives the most votes routinely find itself out of power." So that's not going according to plan. I really like the idea of ranked-choice voting but when the people who make those kinds of decisions benefit from the current system, any sort of voting change seems unlikely.
Recommended · Oct 28th, 2018, 8:58 am
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Mast
This is a nice, new iOS Mastodon app. I'm going back and forth between Mast and Amaroq and I can't decide which is the one Mastodon app to rule them all yet. If you're wondering what Mastodon is, you can't go wrong with Laura Kalbag's summary: What is Mastodon and why should I use it?
Recommended · Oct 27th, 2018, 4:03 pm
Coding Horror Coding Horror
What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?
Jeff Atwood contemplates 10 years of the indespensible programming community Stack Overflow and where it might be heading. I'll also use this space to plug the excellent Stack Overflow newsletters. I don't visit the SO sites everyday but I like to see a weekly summary of what's popular in various communities—the RPG newsletter is especially fun if you're into that sort of thing.
Recommended · Oct 27th, 2018, 9:50 am
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A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley
The screen struggle is real. I'm trying to find this line with my kids and with myself and this article is more fuel for the less-is-more fire.
Recommended · Oct 26th, 2018, 5:38 pm
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190 universities just launched 600 free online courses. Here’s the full list.
It's interesting to see which subjects are covered in this list of new online courses. I signed up for a free course about podcasting from an Australian university. [via mefi]
Recommended · Oct 26th, 2018, 8:44 am
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Corvallis Color
Photos · Oct 25th, 2018, 6:14 am
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Browsing the Stacks: A Photo Appreciation of Libraries
Alan Taylor at In Focus (no relation) focuses on photographs taken in and around libraries.
Recommended · Oct 24th, 2018, 9:13 pm
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“How to Vote”
Very nice Sandwich Video about voting featuring Demi Adejuyigbe! Of course if you live in the pacific northwest like me you could have already voted by now thanks to mail in ballots.
Recommended · Oct 24th, 2018, 8:50 pm
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Yet Another Sunflower
Photos · Oct 13th, 2018, 12:13 pm

Shift Happens Newsletter

I am just never going to make my giant email newsletter list post and I have another one to recommend. If you're interested in the history of computing, keyboards, or the ways people interact with machines you should follow Marcin Wichary's progress on his book Shift Happens. Yesterday's update was a love letter to the KPH Radio Station in Marin County, CA which preserves decades of keyboards devoted to maritime communication: A time machine behind the cypress trees. And to catch up with Wichary's obsession you can't go wrong with Matt Haughey's interview with him on Hobby Horse: Marcin Wichary quit his job for his love of keyboards.
Thoughts · Oct 9th, 2018, 7:07 pm
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Waldo Hall
Photos · Oct 1st, 2018, 10:43 pm