The Final Days of Obama’s Tech Surge – Backchannel
This is a good read, with some personal news in it as well »
The Trump Administration Is Turning Cautious Liberals Into Paranoid Preppers - BuzzFeed News
Nice one from @williamalden on the ways liberals are capital-p Prepping for the Trump administration »
Tim Draper keeps defending Theranos - Axios
wow Draper is clueless: "Tim Draper keeps defending Theranos" »
engineering.instagram.com/dismissing-python-garbage-collection-at-instagram-4dca40b29172#.nbl4wx9bo
this post about how & why Instagram disabled Python garbage collection is GREAT (via @rckenned) »
Extraordinary early 20th century magazine covers from Japan - 50 Watts
The mid-1930s was a great time for Japanese magazine cover design (via »
m.signalvnoise.com/a-rant-against-maximization-b5091d75abda#---0-284.2r8r95g1a
“A Rant Against Maximization” — @jasonfried »
Trump ‘cyber tsar’ Giuliani among swathes of hacked top appointees – Channel 4 News
Man Donald Trump has put in charge of cyber security has been hacked »
The Girl Scouts Will March in Donald Trump's Inaugural Parade 
as a lifelong Girl Scout and the co-leader of a troop, I'm extremely unhappy about this »
fabric.io/blog/fabric-joins-google
Fabric (née Crashlytics) is now part of Google. »
Careers | Urban Airship
I'm hiring. You're allowedtoapply dot tumblr dot com. Let's do computer stuff together. »
Stupid Hackathon 2017 by Amelia Winger-bearskin — Kickstarter
If you back the @stupidhackathon Kickstarter project, you’ll be able to register early (it’ll most likely sell out) »
SPEECHES OF NOTE
Smart @ShaunUsher expands the franchise: @SpeechesOfNote »
What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn · GitHub
Worth a read. - What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn »
CHIZZY — Home
NOPE 4" x 4" vinyl stickers available »
bit.ly/2k0dbnd
Allow your website to accept pasted passwords - it makes your site more secure, not less »
Fonts by Haley Fiege
I made a super useful new font. - »
You’ll Never Be The Same Again – The U.S. Digital Service – Medium
My fondest memory from Google is a 3-day leadership training where I was grouped with Mikey Dickerson »
Japanese toilet industry agrees to standardize complex bidet controls - The Verge
Japanese toilet industry agrees to standardize complex bidet controls »
The Alt-Right’s Meltdown Is Just Like Any Other Message Board Drama - BuzzFeed News
I spent a TON of time on forums and message board in my teens/early 20s and this is exactly correct »
Chaffetz Skipped Meeting With Ethics Chief He Threatened To Subpoena, Emails Show | The Huffington Post
Lol. @jasoninthehouse said the Office of Govt Ethics refused to meet w/ him. FOIAed emails shows he ghosted. Ethics »
Last Week Tonight Season 4 Promo - YouTube
THE DOUBLE STEALTH NATURE OF THIS PROMO IS LEGIT GREAT. »
Why 4 Women Want 1 Million Women To Send In Their Stories | The Huffington Post
Why 4 Women Want 1 Million Women To Send In Their Stories | The Huffington Post »
Accidental Tech Podcast: 205: People Don't Use the Weird Parts
Why talk about @clattner_llvm on your podcast when you can talk *to* him? »
Clockwise #172: Serial iPhone Killer - Relay FM
Nintendo Switch, Twitter security, RIP Vine, and Apple support, with @AlexCox and @jeffcarlson! »
The Unexpected Design Challenge Behind Slack's New Threaded Conversations | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
The Unexpected Design Challenge Behind Slack's New Threaded Conversations »
There is No Magic Pill – jencotton – Medium
Building an inclusive workplace is achievable more quickly than you might imagine. Twitter's @jencotton shares how »
Assange lawyer: Manning commutation doesn't meet extradition offer's conditions | TheHill
Lol Julian, you don’t have to explain why you’re not coming to the party, the fact is you weren’t invited anyway »
An open letter to Trump from the US press corps - Columbia Journalism Review
An open letter to Trump from the US press corps via @cjr »
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Define: "fake news" • • »
Patti Smith & Fred "Sonic" Smith - People Have the Power [Live 3-16-90] - YouTube
I was dreaming and in my dreamin saw an aspect bright & fair #pattismith »
mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/us/politics/rick-perry-energy-secretary-donald-trump.html
Rick Perry—who once called for the elimination of the Dept of Energy and now may lead it—has no idea what it does »
FBI, 5 other agencies investigating Kremlin aid in hacking, sources say | McClatchy DC
How strange that Comey didn't mention this the week before the election! »
Who is Anna-Senpai, the Mirai Worm Author? — Krebs on Security
So the (alleged) Mirai IoT device worm author has a background in the Minecraft community/DDoS wars? Interesting »
Moving Vans Arrive at White House to Remove All Traces of Competence, Dignity - The New Yorker
Movers are working under a strict deadline, since White House needs to be totally stripped of decency by 9AM Friday. »
How Louis C.K. tells a joke
Nothing gets wasted when purpose is your guiding star. »
Arrival – Mozilla Open Design
Mozilla has a new logo! »
This Team Runs Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook Page - Bloomberg
And here I am running my own social presence like an idiot. »
Coach Z Rap - YouTube
Every time I hear that one Drake song I'm all like »
The Empty Trump Administration - Bloomberg View
The Empty Trump Administration »
These Maps Literally Put the Alps at Your Fingertips
A new tactile atlas of Switzerland has maps for people who can't see »
Obama to the press: ‘America needs you’ – Poynter
Obama to the press: ‘America needs you’ »
Meet Linda Sarsour, one of the women organizing the Women’s March On Washington / Boing Boing
Meet Linda Sarsour, one of the women organizing the Women’s March On Washington »
California state employees may no longer use state funds travel to states where LGBTQ discrimination is legal / Boing Boing
California bans state employees from using state funds for travel to states where #LGBTQ discrimination is legal »
Companies Are Recycling Their Old News to Avoid Being Blasted in a Trump Tweet - NBC News
Companies are "recycling" old job creation announcements to avoid Trump's twitter attacks https://t.co… »
SF in SF: see Kim Stanley Robinson & Cecelia Holland live in San Francisco this Saturday / Boing Boing
SF in SF: see Kim Stanley Robinson & Cecelia Holland live in San Francisco this Saturday »
The tech of PIXAR part 1: Piper – daring to be different | fxguide
LRT: Each GRAIN OF SAND was 5000 polygons. Millions of grains. I'm too used to real time g… »
World Map Shows What a Hyperloop Future May Look Like | Inverse
Love this idea of a global hyperloop tube map. It's 2017, think big »
EFF's 100-Day Plan | Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF is going to waste no time in 2017 standing up for your rights. Read our 100 day plan to see how »
act.americanrivers.org | Scott Pruitt: The Wrong Choice for Leading the EPA
Put simply, Scott Pruitt is a piece of shit. If you care about the outdoors, stop him #PruittHear… »
From Headline to Photograph, a Fake News Masterpiece - The New York Times
Now we have domestic interference. We really need a re-election. »
I voted for Donald Trump, and I already regret it - Vox
All the problems with America basically boil down to the fact that people like this get to set national policy »
The Death of the Tunnel Tree - The New Yorker
A tree has died that was older than the language in which we write. »
So You’re Going to Protest... - Trump Resistance Playbook - Portland Mercury
Some thoughts for Portland people planning to protest later this week »
Visualizing an entire city's buildings live with runtime styling | Mapbox
I’ll be showing off & talking about how I built tonight at Portland @OSGeo, come on by!… »
The Obama Administration Digital Transition: Moving Forward | whitehouse.gov
After January 20, 2017: @POTUS → @BarackObama @VP → @JoeBiden Learn more »
‘Learning Curve’ as Rick Perry Pursues a Job He Initially Misunderstood - The New York Times
running our nuclear programs soon: "Mr. Perry studied animal husbandry and led cheers at Texas A&M University." »
From Headline to Photograph, a Fake News Masterpiece - The New York Times
I discovered who was behind an anti-Clinton fake news site. And he agreed to tell his story. »
Earth Sets a Temperature Record for the Third Straight Year - The New York Times
The Earth reached its highest temperature on record in 2016 »
Tech employees protest in front of Palantir HQ over fears it will build Trump’s Muslim registry | TechCrunch
Tech employees protest in front of Palantir HQ over fears it will build Trump’s Muslim registry »
Slack adds threaded messages to take the clutter out of public channels - The Verge
WHAT: Slack adds threaded messages to take the clutter out of public channels »
Pokemon Go adds 17 pokestops to the World Economic Forum in Davos to combat poverty
You guys! Seems they fixed the totally absurd news headline generator! »
Earth Sets a Temperature Record for the Third Straight Year - The New York Times
Earth Sets a Temperature Record for the Third Straight Year »
Magic - Howl
Ep 2 of Offices&Bosses is out now w/ @marklogdog as Krom. Get a free month of @howlfm »
mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/05/nyregion/james-bond-of-philanthropy-gives-away-the-last-of-his-fortune.html
Props to Charles Feeney, who gave away his entire fortune – more than $8B via @idancohen »
Watch Victor Lopez's Vine "My addiction #gameboy"
Vine's last day is tomorrow, so I leave you with this »
Hi. I’m Andy, and I organize events.
Just a reminder that I’m still booking event consulting gigs for this year. Need help? »
Internet Archive: Wayback Machine
This is a public service announcement. »