June 18, 2021 Kristy Viers 🦯 on Twitter “I thought I would share how I, as someone who is visually impaired use my iPhone.”
June 15, 2021 Defending Against ‘Predatory Listening’ — Ten Percent Happier “…demonizing this behavior or calling it out won’t solve the problem. You can’t fight predatory listening with more argument.”
June 11, 2021 The Ikea effect: accepting change by creating it – Change Designers “…if you involve people in shaping the future, rather than imposing changes or “selling” it to them, they will value the changes more and take more ownership. “
June 8, 2021 How often do people actually copy and paste from Stack Overflow? Now we know. – Stack Overflow Blog “One out of every four users who visits a Stack Overflow question copies something within five minutes of hitting the page…. We call this knowledge reuse – you’re reusing what others have already learned, created, and proven.”
June 4, 2021 Ian’s Shoelace Site – Granny Knot Info “The Granny Knot is the most common reason that shoelaces loosen or come undone; It can be spotted by the tendency of the bow to sit crooked (ie. heel to toe)…”
June 1, 2021 Another brain-frying optical illusion: What color are these spheres? “…we do perceive colors as they stand on their own, but also by contrast with colors around them.”
May 28, 2021 A Grizzled, Months-Old Chrome Tab Welcomes a Fresh-Faced New Tab to My Browser Window “Here, I’ll introduce you to some of the guys. On the end, that’s Gmail. He’s the only one been around longer’n me, and he’s not going anywhere. Practically invincible.”
May 25, 2021 What is letterlocking? (2019) “Letterlocking refers to the technology of folding and securing an epistolary writing substrate to function as its own envelope – a vital communications technology before the invention of the mass-produced envelope in the 19th century.”
May 21, 2021 Amazon quietly changed its app icon after some unfavorable comparisons “Amazon … has now changed the design of the blue tape after some said it resembled a toothbrush-style mustache, similar to the one worn by Adolf Hitler.”
May 18, 2021 I’m Your Child’s New Interlocking Block System and I’m Incompatible With Every Other Block They Own “I am not here to unite all bricks under a common format; I am the format. The sooner you accept this, the sooner you will recognize my perfection.”