Category: Tech
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We named them after the humans they were replacing.
“The word ‘computer’ only really slid over to mean ‘a machine’ in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, once we started building mechanical and then electronic devices to do that work instead [of people].…
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How do you spell success?
Working in tech means being comfortable with change and uncertainty. Successfully working in tech means not letting change and uncertainty paralyze you. Forge ahead on the best information you have, and be prepared to change…
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My weekend project
By controlling what I listen to, and the order in which I listen, I’m slowly designing an infinite collage of my evolving musical tastes.
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The Web We Lost: Luke Dorny Redesign
Like 90s hip-hop, The Web We Lost™ retains a near-mystical hold on the hearts and minds of those who were lucky enough to be part of it. Luke Dorny’s recent, lovingly hand-carved redesign of his…
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Share Our Space (Apart)
Calling all small design & tech firms in NYC: get a private office from $2K/month in our shared design space. A Space Apart at 148 Madison Avenue in NoMad, Manhattan has private offices to lease.…
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You’re welcome: cutting the mustard then and now.
EVERY TIME I hear a brilliant young web developer cite the BBC’s forward-thinking practice of “cutting the mustard,” by which they mean testing a receiving web device for certain capabilities before serving content, I remember…
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“You’re Now Free to Complain About the Wi-Fi”
LOUIS C.K.’s 2008 viral rant on Conan O’Brien be damned. Seven years later, in-flight Wi-Fi is still maddeningly slow, expensive, and unreliable. Bloomberg: Why Gogo’s Infuriatingly Expensive, Slow Internet Still Owns the Skies