How ‘Law & Order’ Shaped Our Views of Policing
teenvogue.com/story/law-and-order-policing-mediaWe’ve been taught to root for the police and the prosecutor.
The Prince symbol has been salvaged from a 1993 floppy disk - CDM Create Digital Music
cdm.link/2021/11/the-prince-symbol-has-been-salvaged-from-a-1992-floppy-disk/Prince was way ahead of non-fungible tokens - with a symbol that was intended to make life a pain-in-the-a** for the record label. (Non-f***able totem?) And now Anil Dash and Limor Fried/Adafruit have brought back that image from a floppy.
Overengineering can kill your product - Mind the Product
mindtheproduct.com/overengineering-can-kill-your-product/In today's post, Simón Muñoz speaks about one of the most prevalent issues when creating products: overengineering them.
Rogue Amoeba | SoundSource: A Superior Sound Control
rogueamoeba.com/soundsource/Rogue Amoeba is home to fantastic MacOS audio products for consumers and professionals alike. Rogue Amoeba - Strange Name. Great Software.
How Designers Can Prevent User Errors | UX Tools
uxtools.co/blog/how-designers-can-prevent-user-errorsThere are lots of practical ways designers can help users avoid mistakes.
Blanked verse: the power of erasure poetry
theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/12/blanked-verse-the-power-of-erasure-poetryPoets have been constructing new work by selectively redacting others’ texts for decades, but Instagram and our political moment have spotlit this startling technique
Meet Holly Maniatty, the Wu-Tang Clan’s Sign Language Interpreter
slate.com/culture/2013/06/the-wu-tang-clan-sign-language-interpreter-how-holly-maniatty-learned-to-sign-for-rappers.htmlWhen Killer Mike took the stage last week at the Bonnaroo music festival, he spotted amid the crowd a white woman rapping along to his lyrics, shaking...
End-to-end product copy management | Strings.Design
strings.design/Strings is a content design and UX writing tool that helps software teams save time and improve their products
The straight men doing gay for pay on OnlyFans and JustForFans
dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/47929/1/straight-men-gay-for-pay-onlyfans-just-for-fans-masculinityThe popularity of the exclusive, X-rated content-hosting fan sites has seen a new generation of heterosexual men making soft porn accounts for gay audiences, and detoxifying masculinity on the way
Why is flaking so widespread in San Francisco? | devonzuegel.com
devonzuegel.com/post/why-is-flaking-so-widespread-in-san-franciscoIn an email exchange with Brian Lui, he asked me an interesting question about the rate of flaking in San Francisco: I had a brief question too. I've read that the rate of "flaking" in San Francisco is really high, because everyone is so busy and...
Normalization of deviance
danluu.com/wat/At large company B (LCB), ICs agreed that it's problematic to reward creating new features more richly than doing critical grunt work. When I talked to managers, they often agreed, too. But nevertheless, the people who get promoted are disproportionately those who ship shiny new things. I saw management attempt a number of cultural and process changes at LCB. Mostly, those took the form of pronouncements from people with fancy titles. For really important things, they might produce a...