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The majority of thinking people continue to find “fashion” beneath serious analysis, which is ridiculous because so much of human life is conventional. Ideologies come in and out as a byproduct of social dynamics. The most important thing to understand here is the directionality: This nihilistic aesthetic is not the result of a right-wing conspiracy. The fundamental mechanics of fashion elevated the nihilistic aesthetic and turned it right-wing.

A classic, useful analogy.

No.

Umami is a privacy-first web and product analytics platform. Traffic, campaigns, behavior, conversions, and revenue in one place. No cookies, no surveillance, self-hosted or in the cloud.

From Floating Points’ forthcoming soundtrack for Lazarus, by Shinichirō Watanabe.

Truly independent web browser

Good post of barefoot shoe recs, including more dressy options.

After the arbitrator ordered Wynn-Williams to stop promoting her book, Stone, the Meta spokesperson, took to Threads with a link to the decision, writing, “This ruling affirms that Sarah Wynn Williams’ false and defamatory book should never have been published.” Commenters rushed in to block his victory lap: “i am now 500× more interested in this book!” “great sales pitch - thx big dog.” “Thanks for the heads up. Hadn’t heard about this one, but now excited to read it.”

A tiger team is a specialized, cross-functional team brought together to solve or investigate a specific problem or critical issue.

Taste over metrics, product teams over product managers, strategy over OKRs—and the importance of craft, profitability, and good judgment.

This.

Profitability isn't unambitious; it's controlling your own destiny. It means you don't have to rely on investors for survival. It means you can focus on your unaltered vision and mission. And it means you as a founder decide the pace of growth. And once you experience it, it's hard to imagine doing things any other way.

Excellent Kanban history.

Via jamesholloway.

My ultimate goal after testing was to see if I can completely drop jest and react-testing-library dependencies. Storybook already provides sufficient Vitest bindings and integrations with other packages, allowing me to mock handlers, trigger user events, and handle async operations — all within the same environment.

A chrome extension to convert numbers in webpages to words

Such a good morning’s writing I’d planned, and wasted the cream of my brain on the telephone.

Docs is an open-source text editor: web-native, made for real-time collaboration, cleanly structured documents and sub-documents with full ownership of your data. Built to scale with Django and React.

The practical side of home automation using Apple's HomeKit.

A bit extreme but desperate times...

Here’s a quick rule of thumb that was taught to me, so now I’m going to teach it to you.

Via russelldavies.

A community-driven directory bringing you personal recommendations from across Europe

Brutual but justified takedown.

Discover how to enhance accessibility and improve find-in-page search functionality using hidden="until-found" for icon-only buttons and hidden text labels.

Everything that gets done is either done by a system or by a person. Systems are operated by drones. Cowboys get shit done in spite of systems.

Two conversational AI agents switching from English to sound-level protocol after confirming they are both AI agents

Tiny data-over-sound library

Relative units like em and rem are excellent for internal relationships – keeping the scale consistent between body text and headings, for example. But things always go wrong when we try to treat em as an alias for px, with mental conversions based on their assumed default relationship. At that point we’re keeping zoom, but discarding everything else about the user preference.

Superb primer on motion design.

Basically design tokens.

🚕 Turn stories into executable tests

This document describes requirements for the layout and presentation of text in languages that use the Arabic script when they are used by Web standards and technologies, such as HTML, CSS, Mobile Web, Digital Publications, and Unicode.

If you are fortunate, a fantastic way to share your fortune is to gift a friend the cost of travel with you. You both will have a great time.

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But because of how information works in our new world run by digital platforms, the difference between the illusion of power and the real thing is vanishingly small. And in an attention economy, they effectively become the same thing over time.

STL is short for Single Threaded Leader. Different from previous approach, this [...] makes the leader exclusively dedicated to a project. The individual ONLY works on this single top level initiative.

Building a lightweight Go app on the Jetstream