MG Siegler on Facebook’s Instant Articles:
Facebook has put everyone else on notice. Your content better load fast or you’re screwed.
While I’m not overly keen on the prospect of content moving within Facebook’s walled garden, if it means existing news sites have to up their game and improve their dog-slow, bloated, marketing-led, advert-riddled mobile web experiences then we all benefit.
"The Waterloo Bridge Handicap". This clip of Leonard Rossiter 'racing' commuters was played at last night's B&S gig: https://youtu.be/xqMMRvQnzsY?t=10m30s
Superb Belle and Sebastian gig tonight. A few oldies: highlight was audience on stage to Boy With The Arab Strap:
https://twitter.com/NeilBennett/status/598250453198118912
In September 2006 I posted one of the first ever tweets about Arsenal Football Club, lamenting my team’s fondness for always trying to walk it in after watching a frustrating draw with Middlesborough at The Emirates. barryf.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com…
Every now and again someone rediscovers it and I get a barrage of retweets and replies, some polite, others from goading fans of other teams seeing the activity and incorrectly assuming I’m talking about the current team.
So reluctantly I’ve...
Video of the Tech Talk I presented to my @globaldev team on the #indieweb and why it's important you #ownyourdata https://vimeo.com/globaldev/tech-talk-indieweb
Twitter adds RT-with-quote functionality via progressive enhancement: it uses a link to the original tweet. https://twitter.com/twitter/status/585225218093932544
This week, while in Boston, I''m pleased to have finally attended my first #indiewebcamp. Two days of sharing, hacking and working on projects with some lovely, friendly people to help further the independent web.
Reaction in the Guardian to Tinder’s new Plus tier:
I probably wouldn’t pay $19.99 a month (the senior anti-discount for Tinder Plus) just for the privilege of getting take-backs on my mistaken swipes. But I’d pay extra to be an over-30 on Tinder if it meant I had an option where under-30s couldn’t interact with me.
There’s still plenty of room in the dating market beyond Tinder and free sites for those wiling to pay for a better experience on a specialised site. Choosing a site dedicated to a...
A lovely animation explaining Hilbert's Infinite Hotel Paradox which hurt my head back at university: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj3_KqkI9Zo /via @kottke
Writing tests is great, but a static type system is like a built-in test suite that catches all the ridiculous, pointless problems you waste time on every day, so that you can focus on the interesting ones.
– Tom Stuart on static typing in Ruby
