john spurlock 2019

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"And if we need to test in prod we need to develop in prod and we need a development flow that embraces that."
– @doctor_julzWhat comes after Serverless? – Julian Friedman – Mediummedium.com

"dreadonly"

Firefox dark mode detection arriving in Firefox 67!

Beta March 19, stable May 14.1494034 - Add support for CSS prefers-color-scheme media featurebugzilla.mozilla.org

Lingo is less accessible.Sara Soueidan on Twitter:"“a11y” is short for “accessibility”.

That is all. This is my tweet. #a11y

👇🏻 Image via @mds…"twitter.com

"we're all making faith-based technology decisions"

"calm your farm"calm your farm - Wiktionaryen.m.wiktionary.org

Does it bring you joy?

jeffp$ aws ec2 terminate-instances --instance-ids AMI

Retcon this space actually reserved for upcoming feed reader product to be announced soon...Stephen Hall on Twitter:"And another one bites the dust"twitter.com

All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in an emerald sea...Google will begin deleting Google+ photos, pages, comments, and more on April 2 | VentureBeatventurebeat.com

🎵 "Don't it make you want to get some sun / Shine on, shine on, shine on" 🎵Fountains Of Wayne - Radiation Vibe (Official Video) - YouTubeyoutube.com

"'It helps me with my ADHD: I can focus on the words, I catch things I missed, and I never have to go back,' she replied. 'And I can text while I watch.'"Why Gen Z Loves Closed Captioning – The Upgrade – Mediummedium.com

"An early map of the United States bore the motto “Order upon the Land.” Should Google ever need a new slogan to replace its original, now-discarded “Don’t be evil,” it would be hard-pressed to find a better one than that."
– @roughtypeThieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism - Los Angeles Review of Bookslareviewofbooks.org

Back to the future

"vortex.data.microsoft.com"

"the team size was incongruous with ongoing fiscal responsibility"

"Abandonment, and the degree to which we used it, was our biggest and most successful bet with the Error Model. We found bugs early and often, where they are easiest to diagnose and fix. Abandonment-based errors outnumbered recoverable errors by 10:1."Joe Duffy - The Error Modeljoeduffyblog.com

And so of course Google discontinued the only cast product with digital out. Of course they did.Google discontinues Chromecast Audio, but you can grab one for $15 now - The Vergetheverge.comJohn Spurlock on Twitter:"local redbook+ audio -> @plex -> chromecast audio -> @MarantzAmerica receiver = 🔉🔉🔉 👀 👀"twitter.com

👍Android Police on Twitter:"Googler seemingly confirms that Android Q will have system-wide Dark Mode …"twitter.com

The game theory between Google & these content pages is fascinating. According to @neilvogel, Google:
- provides majority of inbound (back from FB)
- has no human phone #
- updates ranking algo often, not worth chasing
- forces him to provide better answers than competitionPeter Kafka on Twitter:"Here, for instance, is DotDash (née ) CEO @neilvogel talking about pulling off the so-rare-you've-never-seen-it consumer internet turnaround, working for Barry Diller and turning the Webbys into a thing. …"twitter.com

"In some developed markets, iPhone upgrades also were not as strong as we thought they would be..."Letter from Tim Cook to Apple investors - Appleapple.com

Just installed NetGuard, uses a local android/net/VpnService for app+host level filtering, no server, no rootGitHub - M66B/NetGuard: A simple way to block access to the internet per applicationgithub.com

The @Dropbox android app is one of the apps implicated btwmedia.ccc.de - How Facebook tracks you on Androidmedia.ccc.de

'Tis the season for TurboTax growth hacking

"News Cloaca" 2020Paul Ford on Twitter:"We all celebrate in our own ways…"twitter.com

"Uncivilization"

"It was especially encouraged to craft pitches with the “outrage share” (pandering to PC culture/liberal outrage) and the “identity share” (pandering to millennials’ obsession with self-identification) in mind."“Outrage shares” and clickbait Mad Libs: A former Mic employee describes his frustrating (for all involved) stint there » Nieman Journalism Labniemanlab.org

"The accumulation of photographs is a fairly decent distraction from the fact we’re all going to die  -  /deathstyle/ just doesn’t have the same ring." –@daisandconfusedAre We Post-Lifestyle? – Member Feature Stories – Mediummedium.com