How Blockbuster, Kodak And Xerox Really Failed (It’s Not What You Think)

inc.com/greg-satell/pundits-love… via @Inc

Someone made a font that looks like Times New Roman but is *ever so slightly wider* to make term papers stretch out. Good work, America buzzfeednews.com/article/katieno…

🥇 And the award for WORST microcopy goes to…

#badcopy #badUX #microcopy

i just downloaded this 90s cdrom called ‘gifs galore’ and honestly highly recommended archive.org/details/GifsGalore_A… t.co/ATPXL04lLF

RE: Software disenchantment rakhim.org/2018/09/re-software-d…

A rant-y reply to @nikitonsky’s latest post.

New article: Software Disenchantment. Today’s software and software practices suck. It’s on us, engineers, to step up and do better tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/

RIP Path. ⚰️🥀 producthunt.com/news/387-path-is…

Saying an elevator is down but will be back up shortly is the same thing as saying it’s working.

2022: iPhone X-IV [s] Max Pro Huge Anniversary Edition Siri Steve

#AppleEvent

“Siri, help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” #AppleEvent

Turns out Google does a two-pass indexing and the first pass doesn’t run JavaScript. That’s kind of a big deal.
twitter.com/Paul_Kinlan/status/1…

I found this sweet article on Frontpage 98 and guess what it has in it… DESIGN SYSTEMS!~ lolololo #oldgold telecommander.com/pics/links/app… t.co/4hDyeakYBU

Pythonists are all “explicit is better than implicit” and Ruby is like “LOOK AT ME I MADE A BONG OUT OF THIS HAIR DRYER”

I love working on backend code… but its really anticlimactic when something works.

Like…
“OMG I SEE THIS ONE WORD POP UP IN THE LOGS / RESPONSE. I’VE BEEN WORKING TO THIS ONE WORD FOR TWO WEEKS. HURRAY!”

Here’s the video of my “Learn Gutenberg” session for @WordPressDC / @WordPressNoVa the other night 🙂

TL;DW – New to WP? Play around. Have a site? Test it. Don’t want it? Know your options. Most in the crowd were new and excited!

Watch it here – buff.ly/2Qd1HJQ t.co/zJvu0Ju2UY

Do you…
a) work in tech or design, broadly (e.g., product, engineering, UX, content strategy, etc.), and

b) do, or are interested in, speaking, writing or other kinds of profesh visibility?

Me and @theledu would love to hear about your experiences!
goo.gl/forms/xqPFjLymA4jvxg133

And video of the talk: wordpress.tv/2018/08/23/russell-…

Next one in our 10 years look-back is one from the @ChromeDevTools team✨

From Firebug🐞 to Chrome DevTools Protocol🔧, developer tools have taken a massive leap over the past 10 years💫
blog.chromium.org/2018/09/10-yea…

#GoogleChrome

Allows you to send HTML/CSS to an endpoint, get back a URL for the rendered image.

Gradients, drop shadows, emoji’s, custom fonts. Basically, if Chrome can do it, this API will do it. t.co/gmxbgAWJ6r

I like this gif