If you’re a Monocle user, you might have noticed a new feature in your UI today. If you self-host, you’ll want to update your installation to the latest version. Two nice “quality of life” features have gone live, and I’m a little excited, because I helped build one of them The bigges...
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👓 Scott Pelley: CBS booted me over complaining about ‘hostile’ environment | Page Six
“I lost my job because I wouldn’t stop complaining to management,” Pelley said on CNN’s “Reliable Sources.”
👓 Why www.jvt.me? | Jamie Vivek Tanna
What is the significance of jvt.me? My full name is James Vivek Tanna (but I prefer Jamie), hence my initials are JVT. The .me was just because it was a nice short URL, and cheap at the time I bought it.
👓 “K” Theme MF2 Markup Update | Chris McLeod
(Skip to the end for the TL;DR summary) After an evening of debugging and rewriting sections of the HTML in “K”, I think I’ve fixed the markup and parsing issues I mentioned yesterday. It turns out that X-Ray, the parsing engine used by IndieNews, Aperture, and probably others, was only findin...
👓 EdTech Companies with the Most Student Data | LISTedTECH
Not surprisingly, Google and Microsoft have the most data largely due to their email systems. Google also has a significant amount of K12 LMS data because of the popular Classroom system.
👓 How The "Lit Shot" Became The Trend For Authors To Announce Book Deals On Twitter | BuzzFeed News
Hard-to-read screenshots of paywalled book industry websites dominate Literary Twitter.
👓 The Jaguar and the Fox | The Atlantic
Hard as he tried, Murray Gell-Mann could never make himself into a legend like his rakish colleague and collaborator, Richard Feynman -- even if he was probably the greater physicist
👓 Rural Americans would be serfs if we abolished the Electoral College | USA TODAY
If the National Popular Vote drive kills the Electoral College, rural and small town Americans who supply our food and energy will lose their voice.
👓 Thinking About App Camp: Amazing Accomplishments That Are Hard to Scale | micro.welltempered.net
It’s been a week since the news was announced that there wouldn’t be the App Camp For Girls program in Summer 2019 and that the board of directors would be exploring options for furthering the mission of the organization by other means. I said I would write a proper blog post once I had a chance...
I’m curious about the difference in structure with this and Steam:Coders and how the set ups could be franchised.
👓 Open Invitation for Domain Camp 2019 | Domains of Our Own
It takes a bit more work to learn all of the tools and what is available when you can install many kinds of web sites and web-based apps and manage access to them. But as owner of your own domain, you get to fully control your footprint on the web.
If this has a ring of interest to you, this summer we revive last year’s summer Domain Camp, a set of activities and support areas to help you learn what you can do inside the big cpanel of possibilities (that’s your domain dashboard).
Each week we will include an intro video, a set of activities to do inside your domain, open office hours, and community spaces to ask and answer questions.
We are setting up camp again to start the week of June 11, 2019. Are you interested? If so, please sign up and let us know (or see form at bottom).
If participants would like to use it, I’d welcome them to the wealth of additional resources on the IndieWeb wiki as well as an open and friendly online chat where one can find lots of help and advice as you work to make your domain your own.
👓 Unloved Patches | bitsplitting.org
For a long time I have admired the WordPress project, for developing such a robust blogging platform that is ultimately open, and free, and anybody can contribute improvements to it. I encourage many of my customers to use WordPress with MarsEdit, because it seems like a "safe bet" going forward. M
👓 Twitter Bans #Resistance-Famous Krassenstein Brothers for Allegedly Operating Fake Accounts | The Daily Beast
Ed and Brian Krassenstein are banned for life after ‘operating multiple fake accounts and purchasing account interactions,’ a Twitter spokesman said.
👓 Snapchat Employees Abused Data Access to Spy on Users | Vice
Multiple sources and emails also describe SnapLion, an internal tool used by various departments to access Snapchat user data.
👓 Investigations into a present but silent Garfield | Fogknife
I accidentally led a group research project into a dimly remembered but superior predecessor to "Garfield Minus Garfield".
👓 I read Ruined by Design | Fogknife
Thoughts on Mike Monteiro's 2019 polemical book, which insists in fiery terms that the design field start asserting its own, independent responsibility for the power it wields today.