Apps and Tools for Life-Long Learners. (Personal tweets: @elsewisemedia)
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Here's hoping that the next person to design a version control system had a teacher/mentor/peer/friend/life-partner/close-reader/editor somewhere along the way who explained what a mixed metaphor is, and why you should avoid them...
Installed beta 4 of Xcode 11, and every single Combine-related line of code now causes a crash. I was trying to work on a non-Combine feature in a completely different part of my app, and had to revert all my Combine code just to keep working. I know it’s a beta, but oof.
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Why do we put so much effort into writing job openings at Basecamp? Partly as a revulsion to trash like this. angel.co/company/apex-10/job…
I hate having to install new software/plug-ins for screensharing or video-conferencing, and this just confirms every paranoid instinct I've ever had about it:
medium.com/@jonathan.leitsch…
Bottom line: carefully consider the solutions you adopt for audio, video, and screen-sharing. And please don't force clients/contractors/employees to install flavor-of-the-month 3rd-party solutions just to work with you.
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I want our newsrooms and our audiences to get comfortable being uncomfortable a bit more, and be open to hearing voices that aren't their own. Voices they don't get to control. (Also, stop emailing me talking about how I need to stop saying "like" so much. PLEASE.)
/FIN
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The "diversity, BUT" critique of my colleague's voice isn't too much better than saying, "Sure, I'm all for gay rights, as long as they don't, like, kiss in public." Or, "Sure, all about women in the workplace, but I should never have to see them breastfeed."
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👋 I was feeling all reflective and wrote up a post about a few things I used to *strongly* believe as a junior dev...which turned out not to be the full picture 😉 Tell me if you can relate! monicalent.com/blog/2019/06/…
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Superhuman is an email surveillance app that encourages its users to spy on friends and co-workers without their consent. Why the ethics of this matter and what it says about Superhuman as a company. New post on Mike Industries: mikeindustries.com/blog/arch…
My top wish from a post-Ive Apple: fewer curved edges on handheld devices. An iPhone, for example, which doesn't more or less require a case to prevent slipping out of your hand and breaking.
