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“It’s ‘fuck off’ to everything,” says Adam Curtis (pictured below), describing public sentiment today. The British documentarist sees himself as an optimist amid dystopians, and as a classical journalist whose medium happens to be film.

Lengthy interview with Adam Curtis from late 2018.

Some stellar advice here.

There’s really only one key factor that distinguishes enterprise selling from everything a product person knows, and that is enterprise selling ends with the product and starts with the enterprise. Of course that is the complete opposite of what one might normally think where everything starts with a product. Even with the most amazing and inventive product ever conceived, selling at the enterprise level and enterprise scale requires inverting your perspective.

New in the second edition: emoticons and emoji, metrics vs. optical spacing, free fonts, Century Schoolbook alternatives, grids, screen-reading considerations, responsive web design, how to work with a designer, the copyright status of fonts, how this book was made, and typographic humor.

Jobs-to-be-done focus on user problems and needs, while well-executed personas include the same information and also add behavioral and attitudinal details.

CoScreen enables you and your team members to share and edit any app windows simultaneously on your joint workspace. Stop giving up your privacy by sharing your entire screen.

The newly enhanced scope of IR35 is not an end to consultancy-client relationships. However, it has caused confusion and prompted some end-users to become very cautious about using PSC contractors provided by consultancies.

Instead of opening links in the default browser, Choosy sends them to the right browser. Every time.

This actually feels like a very sane use-case for Web Components. Interesting journey from Vanilla JS to raw Web Components to tooling + Web Components.

The difficulty of ensuring that any logo (let alone an intricate, dimensional logo) stands out from the kaleidoscopic eye-candy of ads, apps and open tabs is one driver behind “mobile first” design. Here identity and functionality are conceived from the outset inside the tightest constraints — for what works on a cellphone will surely work on a water-tower.

Such pixel-fixation is table-stakes for modern startups, but legacy brands must be canny when reverse-engineering decades of brand equity into today’s digital Lilliput.

It's very pleasing to have a name and a creditable stab at a rationale for this trend.

Via 💥BLAST!

Not obvious, highly stressful.

A directory of communities for freelancers and small businesses.

Edgar Wright and Dolby Cinema announced that a never-before-seen version of Universal Pictures' 2010 hit cult classic Scott Pilgrim vs. The World will be coming to theaters on April 30. The film has been reimagined in Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos and will play exclusively at Dolby Cinema locations in the U.S. for one week only. "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World was designed for the big screen and for the best sound systems," said Edgar Wright, the film's director, producer, and co-screenwriter. "To be able to see it with the best specs is obviously any filmmaker's dream. You want people to see it as good as it could possibly be. I suspect that if you're a fan of the movie, you're going to get such a kick out of seeing it like this."

Maybe one day this will be shown outside the U.S., too.

An ongoing project to chronicle the history of the internet from a developer perspective.

In retrospect it seems obvious that a relatively low-budget TV show needing stadium crowd shots during a pandemic would make heavy use of VFX.

(In your best Albert Einstein voice) “I wouldn’t change a thing.”

Garson conceived the album with Lynn and Joel Rapp, who ran Mother Earth Plant Boutique on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. Joel had been a writer for My Favorite Martian, but had burned out on the TV industry. So he switched from little green men to little green plants, and the Rapps’ store, as well as their series of best-selling books, helped popularize the houseplant trend that lasted throughout the 1970s and has become commonplace today.

The first volume in a two-part collection of pirate radio adverts & idents, taken from recordings of London stations between 1984 & 1993.

Via Thom Yorke's Guest Mix.

Make a smooth shadow, friend.

Parties in the contractual chain will need to inform their clients if a worker has a ‘material interest’ in the intermediary they work via, under new off-payroll rule duties from April 6th.

Video chat conversations that recreate real-life social interactions

Clearly that could be a good thing or a bad thing.

Conversation doesn't paint Okta in a particularly great light, but lots of alternatives to be found in conversation.

If you are living in England and Wales or, have significant interests there, it would be sensible to sign an English power of attorney as well as a Scottish one. This will make matters administratively a lot easier in the event the document is needed at some point in the future.

is there a contractual penalty risk of accepting a permanent role with the end-client, or engaging with the client as a small consultancy delivering your services under a Statement of Work (SOW), if you are currently working as an agency contractor via a PSC?

Numi alternative. Can't assign subtotals to variables :(

Numi alternative. Looks abandoned.

you shouldn't start a new project with microservices, even if you're sure your application will be big enough to make it worthwhile.

Where it becomes very convenient for user interfaces, and we'll take the example of React here, is that instead of maintaining additional fields in your state to display or not an error (which will likely be desynchronized by mistake, since there's a human responsibility to maintain it), you can store a result value in your component state, and explode it directly in the render function to derive what you need to display.

An open-source colour picker app for macOS.

The Diátaxis framework aims to solve the problem of structure in technical documentation. It adopts a systematic approach to understanding the needs of documentation users in their cycle of interaction with a product.

This approach is not hacky at all.

self-paced online courses for children to learn coding at home, as well as specially designed curriculum for schools and camps.

An organized collection of graphic design related items that are available on the Internet Archives compiled by Valery Marier

Conversations which cause controversy in public can be carried out in private with more nuance and no trolling. A distinction can be made between performance and communication. In “The presentation of Self in Everyday Life” Erving Goffman, a 20th-century sociologist, distinguished between “front-stage” behaviour, which is observed by all and sundry, and the “back-stage” life of rehearsal and preparation in the company of others who are part of the same project. “For healthy psychology we need back and front stage,” says Carissa Véliz of Oxford University. “[Online] we have been pushing back stage more and more into oblivion. Having more private messaging brings the back stage back.”

I really like this analogy.