www.ben-evans.com“We've learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone. PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in.” - Ed Colligan, CEO of Palm, 2006, on rumours of an Apple phone
fs.blogConsider the daily schedule of famed novelist Haruki Murakami. When he’s working on a novel, he starts his days at 4 am and writes for five or six continuous hours.
reactjs.orgHooks are a new addition in React 16.8. They let you use state and other React features without writing a class. This new function useState is the first “Hook” we’ll learn about, but this example is just a teaser. Don’t worry if it doesn’t make sense yet!
medium.comFor the same reason I get demotivated when I hear people say that CodeSandbox is like any other online IDE. Saying something like that makes me feel that whatever we build wouldn’t be noticed anyway.
www.bloomberg.comOn Aug. 1, Brooklyn Burger Factory began selling gourmet patties in its residential neighborhood of Crown Heights. But even though the restaurant serves a steady stream of jerk burgers, salmon burgers, and veggie burgers, not a single person has shown up to eat one.
www.theverge.comFor the past seven years, Information is Beautiful has hosted awards for the best data visualizations and interactive stories.
www.londonreconnections.comIn November 2017 a London Overground train came to a sudden halt just outside Peckham Rye station. It began a chain of events that would eventually lead to over eighty passengers standing at trackside while the electrical rail was still live.
blog.codinghorror.comI sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living, and here's my 15 second answer: We built a sort of Wikipedia website for computer programmers to post questions and answers. It's called Stack Overflow.
www.theverge.comOnePlus is like one giant, never-ending Kickstarter campaign. It’s a company built around a credo of community-driven product development that makes every buyer of a OnePlus phone also feel a sense of ownership over the brand’s fortunes.
www.fastcompany.comAs you go about your daily life on the internet, chances are you’ve came across several dozen highly specific subscription startups hawking you their wares.
www.nytimes.comSAN FRANCISCO — Silicon Valley parents are increasingly obsessed with keeping their children away from screens. Even a little screen time can be so deeply addictive, some parents believe, that it’s best if a child neither touches nor sees any of these glittering rectangles.
www.bristol247.comChannel 4’s decision has the potential to “super charge Bristol’s expanding creative sector”, according to industry insiders. The announcement that the broadcaster has chosen the city to be home for one of its new regional offices met with widespread joy and jubilation on Wednesday.
www.theverge.comAt yesterday’s Apple event, I saw a company returning to its finest form. Apple paid overdue attention to its stalwart MacBook Air and Mac mini, introduced a much leaner and more powerful iPad Pro, and fixed the design disaster that was the Apple Pencil’s charging.
www.engadget.comSidewalk Labs, an Alphabet division focused on smart cities, is caught in a battle over information privacy.
www.bbc.comStaff at Google offices around the world have staged an unprecedented series of walkouts in protest at the company's treatment of women.
www.bloomberg.comOn a recent Friday, Kristen O’Hara got a major promotion: to become Snap Inc.’s chief business officer. Chief Executive Officer Evan Spiegel made it official by alerting her direct reports, according to people familiar with the matter.
www.tbray.orgI’m not young and I can afford to stop working. I’m wondering if I should. And then, when I get up, I’d like to spend two or three hours on Feedly and The Economist, just reading what’s going on in the world.
www.bbc.comNumbers matter. And it was the first draft of the healthier numbers from the number crunchers, the Office for Budget Responsibility, that allowed the chancellor, and the prime minister alongside him, to try something that politically could matter a lot.
www.wired.comLast year, a haunted house called Nightmares Fear Factory became an internet sensation when photos they took of people being scared out of their minds went über-viral, and this year they’re at it again.
themsaid.comI've always been trying to avoid dealing with design decisions and only get myself involved in code. It's just too hard to make things look pretty for everyone since everyone has a different taste, so it's impossible to get people to agree on the final look.
aws.amazon.comWe have seen a lot of discussion this past week about the role of Amazon Rekognition in facial recognition, surveillance, and civil liberties, and we wanted to share some thoughts. Amazon Rekognition is a service we announced in 2016.
blog.sonos.comThe Sonos team has been hard at work with our partners at Google to bring you yet another easy way to control your Sonos system: the Google Assistant.
innocentwords.comR.E.M. The Best of R.E.M. at the BBC (Craft Recordings) It’s been seven years since R.E.M. officially walked away, but thankfully folks are still digging into their vaults to pull out some remarkable, unreleased music.
