A little while back at An Event Apart Chicago, I chatted to Rob Weychert about a grid use case he felt the spec couldn’t solve. He has now written that use case up, which you can read on his blog - Editorial Layouts, FLoats, and CSS Grid. At the time I thought that this sounded like an Exclusions ...
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👓 WordPress Meetup Presentation: Decentralized Social Networking with WordPress | Alexander Kirk
Wpvie Friends This is the presentation I held yesterday, November 7, 2018, at the WordPress Meetup Vienna about the Friends Plugin. I created this presentation with Deckset which allows to generate the presentation from a Markdown file.
Reminder: I need to try this out.
👓 Decentralized Social Networking with WordPress | Alexander Kirk
Over the past year, I've been working on the side on a WordPress plugin that implements an idea that has been growing in me over the last couple of years. Decentralized Social Networking. The plugin that does it is called Friends. Starting with the frustration that there are few alternatives for pe...
👓 How The Wall Street Journal is preparing its journalists to detect deepfakes | Nieman Journalism Lab
"We have seen this rapid rise in deep learning technology and the question is: Is that going to keep going, or is it plateauing? What's going to happen next?"
👓 So some people will pay for a subscription to a news site. How about two? Three? | Nieman Journalism Lab
New York magazine and Quartz both now want readers to pay up. How deep into their pockets will even dedicated news consumers go for a second (or third or fourth) read?
👓 Social Networking Platforms 2018 | Bill Brayman | Google+
Here is the final draft of the chart Social Networking Platforms 2018. As before, see the community spreadsheet for details of particular platforms. Note the interesting reorganization of the chart, plus a few additions and corrections. Many thanks for the insightful and helpful comments. Yay community! Intent of the chart is to provide a researched list of current viable platforms within a simple architectural framework. Three factors: (1) Closed/open standards and centralization/decentralization (which tend to go together). (2) Organized by the pacing and effort typical of user interaction within the communities on the platform. One special group singled out for use of tokens, rewards, tips to form an economic social climate. (3) Major/minor user base - shown by bold/light text, admittedly my quick swag at it, may need corrections. If this version is reasonably stable, I'll put future updates on a website to avoid cluttering up our stream here with minor changes. [Edit: Note a correction to be updated later - Medium and Steemit are miscategorized re proprietary/open standards.] Many thanks to contributors.
Interesting chart/layout for categorizing things.
👓 Mama Lu’s in Monterey Park Busted For Selling Bootleg Dumplings | Eater LA
Plus Hippo’s new happy hour, and Melisse’s dinner deal
👓 What do you want to do when you grow up, kid? | Robin Rendle
I fell into web design via books. When I was maybe six or seven I remember reading about polar bears and how they hibernated in a large compendium about all sorts of natural habitats and curiosities ranging from foxes hunting in the desert and wild horses running on the Mongolian plains to Emperor penguins shivering in the Antarctic. And to this day I still remember that giant, double page spread of a bear and her cubs. It was a wondrous illustration but what piqued my curiosity was how the writer described hibernation.
What a great little story here. I may be biased because I love all of these types of things myself.
👓 ‘Mr. President, That’s a Good One’: Congressman Replies to Trump’s Vulgar Tweet | The New York Times
In a tweet on Sunday, President Trump took aim at Representative Adam B. Schiff, a Democrat of California, calling him “little Adam Schitt.”
👓 How to Talk to People, According to Terry Gross | The New York Times
The NPR host offers eight spicy tips for having better conversations.
👓 How to Clean Your Filthy, Disgusting Laptop | The New York Times
Like any tool we use every day, our laptops accumulate dust, grime, oils from our skin and who knows what else. Yours is probably due for a cleaning, and here’s how to do it right.
👓 An Illustrated Guide to Making People Get Lost | The New York Times
The holiday season is a nightmare. It’s time for you to wake up.
👓 The American Dream Is Alive. In China. | New York Times
Imagine two poor 18-year-olds, one in the U.S., the other in China. Who has a better chance of success? Are you sure?
The US used to pride itself on things like upward mobility… where’s the leadership on the American Dream these days?
👓 Opinion | Michael Bloomberg: Why I’m Giving $1.8 Billion for College Financial Aid | New York Times
Let’s eliminate money problems from the admissions equation for qualified students.
God bless you Michael Bloomberg for putting your money where your mouth heart is. We could use more serious leadership and thought like this in the world.
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👓 Bloomberg gives Johns Hopkins a record $1.8 billion for student financial aid | Washington Post
Former New York mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced Sunday he is giving a record $1.8 billion to Johns Hopkins University to support student financial aid at his alma mater and make its admissions process “forever need-blind.” The gift, believed to be the largest private donation in modern times to higher education, is a landmark in a growing national movement to make elite universities more accessible to students from low-to-middle income families.