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Reads
Reading list of books, magazines, newspaper articles, other physical documents, or online posts
👓 ‘The Great Shame of Our Profession’ | The Chronicle of Higher Education
How the humanities survive on exploitation.
How Hollywood Remembers Steve Bannon | The New Yorker
He says that, before he became a senior adviser to the President, he was a successful player in the film industry. But what did he actually do?
👓 Butterick’s Practical Typography
I’ve claimed throughout this book that many bad typography habits have been imposed upon us by the typewriter. Here, I’ve collected them in one list.
- Straight quotes rather than curly quotes (see straight and curly quotes).
- Two spaces rather than one space between sentences.
- Multiple hyphens instead of dashes (see hyphens and dashes).
- Alphabetic approximations of trademark and copyright symbols.
- ellipses made with three periods rather than an ellipsis character.
- Non-curly apostrophes.
- Pretending that accented characters don’t exist.
- Using multiple word spaces in a row (for instance, to make a first-line indent.)
- Using tabs and tab stops instead of tables.
- Using carriage returns to insert vertical space.
- Using alphabet characters as substitutes for real math symbols.
- Making rules and borders out of repeated characters.
- Ignoring ligatures.
- underlining anything.
- Believing that monospaced fonts are nice to read.
- Abusing all caps.
- Thinking that the best point size for body text is 12.
- Ignoring kerning.
- Ignoring letterspacing.
- Too much centered text.
- Only using single or double line spacing.
- Only using the line length permitted by one-inch page margins.
👓 Inside the Instagram Algorithm | Social Media Today
A software engineer from Instagram recently provided some new insight into how their feed algorithm works.
👓 Welcome Back! Let’s fight for an Open Web | Michael McCallister
A few weeks ago, I was preparing a talk on WordPress at a local university. I knew that posting here at Notes from the Metaverse was on the erratic side in recent months. Yet it was something of a shock to discover that more than a year had gone by!
The ideals behind the #indieweb and, to an extent, Micro.blog are about ownership and control: you own your content, not the network, not the platform, not a silo. But let me play devil's advocate for a moment. I wrote ...
Brett recently laid out his reasons for keeping his own web site in the age of powerful, easy-to-use alternatives like Tumblr, Pinterest, and Twitter. He do...
👓 The duality of microblogging | Colin Walker
Further to the points I made in "Self-hosted microblogging - where does it fit?" I've been having more thoughts on how best to use Micro.blog and fit it into my own online ecosystem.
👓 How To Start Over At 40 | The Mission – Medium
At 40 I lost my wife, my home, and my job. And many of my friends.
👓 “Radioactive Boy Scout” regularly visited by FBI for a decade, father says | Ars Technica
New documents show David Charles Hahn was reported to authorities in 2007, 2010.
Independent Publisher 2 Is Here | WordPress Blog
A beloved WordPress.com theme, improved for simplicity and speed.
👓 Jonathan Demme, ‘Silence of the Lambs’ and ‘Philadelphia’ Director, Dead at 73 | Rolling Stone
'Stop Making Sense' filmmaker succumbs to esophageal cancer
👓 WordCamp for Publishers to be Held in Denver, August 17-19 | WP Tavern
The first ever WordCamp for Publishers will be held August 17-19 in Denver, Colorado. The niche WordCamp will be open to anyone who uses WordPress to manage a publication, no matter what size. Orga…
👓 Automattic to Host a Free, Remote Conference on Design and Exclusion on April 21 | WP Tavern
Automattic is hosting a free, remote conference called Design and Exclusion on April 21. The event will bring together design and technology experts who will discuss solutions for the ways that dig…