David chats with editor-in-chief Nilay Patel all about the ideas behind the redesign, including the Storystream news feed, embedding a whole bunch of stuff right on the homepage, and Nilay’s mission to revolutionize the media with blog posts.
Technology
Welcome to hell, Elon
theverge.comEirik Brandal – Electronic Sculptures
eirikbrandal.comThe Verge Redesign
theverge.comThe Follower
driesdepoorter.beUsing open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken.
After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won
cfenollosa.comThe super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse
theguardian.comTech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers and hiring military security to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences.
Vergecast – 26 August 2022
theverge.comI Made an Internet Time Machine
youtube.comServer Manifesto
hatjecantz.deSimulating an Entire Car Engine
youtube.com‘It’s dopamine’: why we love to track our watching and reading habits
theguardian.comAbsurd AI-Generated Professional Food Photography with DALL-E 2
minimaxir.comPlastic Recycling Doesn’t Work and Will Never Work
theatlantic.comThe first problem is that there are thousands of different plastics, each with its own composition and characteristics. They all include different chemical additives and colorants that cannot be recycled together, making it impossible to sort the trillions of pieces of plastics into separate types for processing.
Childish Font Sizes
cloudfour.comThese days, the arguments for a 16-pixel baseline are widely accepted: We have plenty of data supporting its readability, it can prevent unintentional zoom in mobile browsers, and it’s been the default in every major browser for many years.
But there are plenty of reasons to go even larger…









