john spurlock 2018

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"Otherwise we're now assuming this law belongs in the same pile as other British classics; it's still illegal to die in the houses of Parliament or to eat a mince pie on Christmas."Dear ICO, Sue Usnocookielaw.com

Interesting real-world numbers from @ShopifyEng on S3 partition optimization. Tough to lose top-down prefix listing though, only worth doing for the hottest stuff.Future Proofing Our Cloud Storage Usage – Shopify Engineeringshopifyengineering.myshopify.com

"Starting with Chrome 66, V8 compiles JavaScript source code on a background thread, reducing the amount of time spent compiling on the main thread by between 5% to 20% on typical websites."V8 JavaScript Engine: Background compilationv8project.blogspot.com

"Perhaps unsurprisingly, the department which has experienced the largest growth over the past two decades is Visual Effects.

Connected to this is the only department to have decreased in size – Special Effects."How has the average Hollywood movie crew changed?stephenfollows.com

Largest-gaining counties by numeric increase: 2016-17

"Persphinctery statements are part of Zuckerberg's fare."Mark Zuckerberg Thinks We’re Idiots. – Monday Notemondaynote.com

"At one point, dropping all irony, his hero Garry Shandling leans forward and tells him: “The second you think you’ve got it, as a person, as an actor, as a comedian, and you think, ‘Ah, I know what to do’—you’ve lost it.”"What In God’s Name Happened To Ricky Gervais? | Brendan Jamesthebaffler.com

Huh, take a look at this gem.Navigator.sendBeacon() - Web APIs | MDNdeveloper.mozilla.org

"To be honest, people would rather believe that dark mysterious forces using some diabolical technology made evil happen, rather than, you know, a more mundane story." –@antoniogm on @onthemediaHow Facebook Helped Trump...Without Cambridge Analytica - On The Media - WNYC Studioswnycstudios.org

"ammosexual"

Meanwhile, Liverpool Analytica harvests all 74 Google+ profiles and can't give them away.

Ah, "Fabric" takes me back 10 years or so. Perhaps the new "eBusiness" at this point.Gabe Monroy on Twitter:"Service Fabric, which runs large parts of @Azure, is now open source.

It’s also the #1 trending project on GitHub 👌🏼"twitter.com

"Facebook knew of illicit user profile harvesting for 2 years, never acted"

Be Connected. Be Discovered. Be on Facebook.Here’s How A “Poop Cult” With 58,000 Followers Set Off A Facebook Warbuzzfeed.com

It's 2018 and this is still not an Android system setting. Will be studied in business school for years to come.Adrienne Porter Felt on Twitter:"FINALLY I CAN USE PLAY MUSIC without changing my lock screen to whatever random album cover is playing!!!! 🙏…"twitter.com

"hypebeast"

"The mall gave me everything I needed: sustenance in the form of Panda Express, aesthetic fulfillment in the form of goth-light clothing, and plenty of seating where I could do my homework"A Former Teenage Mallrat's Ode to the Westside Pavilion - Los Angeles Magazinelamag.com

👍Alexa's new 'Brief Mode' makes the assistant talk less | Android Centralandroidcentral.com

"thought bucket"

"Most of the plastic in the seas today comes not from tidy Europe and America, but from countries in fast-developing East Asia, where waste-collection systems are flawed or non-existent."Only 9% of the world's plastic is recycled - Daily charteconomist.com

Android Pnotch - We do what they do!Why the Pixel 3 will probably have a notch just like the iPhone X – BGRbgr.com

The order-and-organize-everything part of me loves this idea. But the "plus" brand should stay in the waste repository.Google’s new ‘Plus Codes’ are an open source, global alternative to street addresses | 9to5Google9to5google.com

👏👏👏Jeff Barr ☁️ on Twitter:"Really psyched about this: #AWS Documentation is Now Open Source on GitHub - (CC: @github). Fix or report issues, improve quality, add samples, and more!…"twitter.com

Let's keep the term "a well-lit path" in the dark though.Standardizing lessons learned from AMP – Accelerated Mobile Pages Projectamphtml.wordpress.com

"Face it, we are at the mercy of idiots not thinking things through."

Should be the @washingtonpost 's next slogan.Zed on Twitter:"And really? Technical debt? Is that why I have to rewrite all my websites every time some jackass DESIGN MASTER GURU decides I need to be"semantic" or some standards body decides for each shouldn't exist? Face it, we are at the mercy of idiots not thinking things through."twitter.com

"He has the privilege of constructing a world in which very little of what he doesn’t have to deal with gets through"The Man Who Knew Too Little - The New York Timesnytimes.com

Come for the snacks, stay for the and.

$twtr going straight up today - new multi-yr high

"Design is too important and too big a field now to be given a wing in someone else’s school. It’s time to create our own."Design’s Lost Generation – Mike Monteiro – Mediummedium.com

"Jira consultants" 😬