Sketch 3.7 and New Symbols — Sketch Stories
Very biased (I use @sketchapp for »
Communities of Data: A Coral Project Hackathon – The Coral Project
We’re running a data & visualization hackathon in DC on Saturday, May 7th. Come and play with us! »
For Good Men To See Nothing — Medium
Today's must-read: "All it takes for sexism to prosper is for good men to see nothing." »
Parakeet Primaries
48 new icons added just today! (336 total!!) »
NYU Game Center Incubator Now Accepting Applications - NYU | Game Center
For the first time, the @NYUGameCenter Incubator is accepting applications from the general public! Apply here: https://t.c… »
Squarespace - Claim This Domain
If you're working on a VR project, or have friends who are, hit me up. »
Goals in Google Calendar - YouTube
First time I’ve seen a software product use a gay plot line to show a use case, and that’s so awesome. Go @google. »
The Division - Problematic Meaning in Mechanics - Extra Credits - YouTube
Extra Credits knocks it out of the park again, with their take on problematic mechanics in The Division »
The HTC Vive Could Be our Generation’s Commodore 64 — Medium
If you're working on a VR project, or have friends who are, hit me up. »
Ladies' Night W+K
Get your #glitch photo from last night! #ladiesnightpdx #wklodge »
Kanye West - Famous on Vimeo
I just want a constant feed of Aziz dancing to Kanye all day »
A Neural Network Playground
Good thing to keep in mind when poking around with »
Facebook Wants To Be The Layer Between You And The Future - BuzzFeed News
I'm writing about Facebook but it's probably not going to be as good as this piece by @nitashatiku »
When to Speak Up About Your ‘Friends’ Being Jerks on Social Media | Motherboard
Good advice by @sarahjeong: If you see people get into fights on your social-media front lawn, step in and speak up. »
Indie Magonomics — Medium
Just published ‘Indie Magonomics’ – a 6500-word article that contains everything I know about magazine making. → »
Lucy Bellwood on Periscope: "Inking a library cat in Manga Studio!"
LIVE on #Periscope: Inking a library cat in Manga Studio! »
On the Road: New York Values
It’s me, Bernie ‘Brooklyn Born’ Sanders and guess what @TedCruz, I have New York values. https:… »
Al Jazeera America : Free Movies : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
after 31 months @ajam shut down, @internetarchive has preserved nearly all: 28,999 programs, searchable & quotable h... »
The Trump Effect: The Impact of the Presidential Campaign on Our Nation's Schools | Southern Poverty Law Center
"Trump! Trump! Trump!" being chanted by schoolyard bullies again minority kids. The man and his brand are toxic. »
The Digital Media Bloodbath: Hundreds Of Jobs Lost - BuzzFeed News
Free digital news sites, fueled by VC money and generous parent Cos, have had hundreds of layoffs since last year https://… »
Scottish Field Wedding Gallery | Scottish Field
Bonkers - this magazine wants photographers to supply images for free, if used they then have to buy 25 magazines »
Longform Podcast #188: Nate Silver
Come for @aaronlammer’s Dean Scream in the intro, stay for @ev_rat talking perception vs reality with @natesilver538 https:/… »
Judge Imposes 720 Days of Jail on 'Affluenza' Teen Ethan Couch - NBC News
Ya boy Ethan Affluenza Couch, sentenced to less jail time than Kalief Browder spent in Rikers without being charged. https://t… »
Live from the White House Science Fair | whitehouse.gov
LIVE NOW: We're at the #WHScienceFair with @POTUS! Watch: @whitehouseostp #STEM »
Is Anything Worth Maximizing? — Medium
Gold in the footnotes on @edelwax’s “Is Anything Worth Maximizing?” talk transcript »
2016 New Coders Survey
new coders, take a survey about your new coding ! »
BriFiTwiBo (Brian’s First Twitter Bot) — Medium
I made an acronamed neighborhood generating bot, @belindabotrick (inspired by @tinysubversions & @99piorg) »
WebKit Feature Status | WebKit
Hey, would you look at that. WebRTC is "In Development" for @webkit via @ebaerbaerbaer »
Jenny Owen - So I had some free time, and decided to make... | Facebook
someone on Facebook has been playing Cards Against Humanity with those EU leaflets »
Shopify To Acquire Kit CRM —
Messaging and search are the future. Really excited to have the @kitcrm team join @Shopify. »
4/12/16 - New Program - YouTube
yay! this time my microphone worked right. Here's my first video. Check it out! »
New Perl 6 Snippet
Try #perl6 in your browser »
How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub
"Gonna go up to Portland. Get me one of those lattes..." »
Ted Cruz’s college days as a widely hated masturbator have come back to haunt him. | New Republic
“Cruz, aside from being a chronic wanker, was intensely unpopular in college” »
UC Davis paid $175,000 or more to scrub police pepper spray incident from web searches / Boing Boing
Remember when that cop pepper-sprayed students in 2011? UC Davis paid $175K to scrub it from the internet's memory »
Designing at Facebook - Facebook for Developers | Facebook
here's the video, i haven't watched it yet but I hear it's good »
Octopus Steals Camera, Swims Away, Directs First Film - The Awl
Auteur octopus steals camera, directs short meditation on meaning of life. »
Star Wars Special: C-3PO #1 - Marvel Comics
Star Wars friends who don't read Star Wars comics. If you're *dying* to know how C-3PO got his red arm, here it is »
Schedule - F8 Facebook Developer Conference
Happy Wednesday! We'll be tweeting live from our talk at #F8 later today, 2PM PDT. Stay tuned »
Cube Drone - - Purity
this barely exaggerates @lambda_conf's bizarre SJ Time Cube post https://… »
Kazoo magazine by Erin Bried — Kickstarter
Kazoo is a magazine for young girls with a STELLAR cartoonist line-up. I just backed it on Kickstarter! »
List of people barred from south London pub / Boing Boing
List of people barred from south London pub »
The secret rules of the internet | The Verge
Happy stories like these are finally surfacing from seasoned content moderators and community managers. ht: @Jultch »
Democracy Spring: Sit in for Racial Justice
Centering Black lives at 11:30am 4 #DemocracySpring Racial Justice Rally follow and RT #BLMDS »
Online abuse: how women are fighting back | Technology | The Guardian
It's left to targets of online abuse to innovate and devise solutions -- I've profiled some of them in the Guardian »
Final Statement on the LambdaConf Controversy – John A De Goes
lol omg lambdaconf going full reddit now »
10 facts you need to know about academies - News stories - GOV.UK
From the DfE: 10 facts you need to know about academies »
I am on the Kill List. This is what it feels like to be hunted by drones | Voices | The Independent
'I am on the US Kill List. This is what it feels like to be hunted by drones' »
Feds Never Charged the Real Hacker in the Matthew Keys Case | WIRED
Apropos of Keys sentencing hearing today: Feds Never Charged the Real Hacker in the Matthew Keys Case - »
Piracy dooms motion picture industry to yet another record-breaking box-office year / Boing Boing
Piracy dooms motion picture industry to yet another record-breaking box-office year of better than ever profits »
burr.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/BAG16460.pdf
Senate encryption bill draft is officially out, still officially terrible »
Meet the German Comedian Whose Racist Joke Caused an International Crisis - Splitsider
For @Splitsider I wrote about that whole Böhmermann thing »
Ted Cruz's Revenge Of The Nerd - MTV
New @MTVNews from @anamariecox: The enemy of the GOP’s enemy is … not better! »
The Time Ted Cruz Defended a Ban on Dildos | Mother Jones
Cruz tried outlawing sex toys, comparing their use with "hiring a willing prostitute, engaging in consensual bigamy" »
What makes a competent software engineer? Let’s find out. — Medium
Does "software engineer" mean something different to Google than a startup of three? I made a survey to find out: https://… »
Lottery security director accused of hacking random-number generator to rig prizes / Boing Boing
Lottery security director accused of hacking random-number generator to rig prizes »
Piracy dooms motion picture industry to yet another record-breaking box-office year / Boing Boing
Piracy dooms motion picture industry to yet another record-breaking box-office year »
Animated, 3D printable virus trading-cards / Boing Boing
Animated, 3D printable virus trading-cards »
URL shorteners are a short path to your hard-drive / Boing Boing
A security heads-up: Popular URL shorteners are a short path to your computer's hard drive »
Panama Papers reveal offshore companies were bagmen for the world's spies / Boing Boing
Panama Papers reveal offshore companies were bagmen for the world's spies »
Not using turn signal = multiple probings of anus and vagina by police / Boing Boing
Not using turn signal = multiple probings of anus and vagina by police »
How corporate America's lobbying budget surpassed the combined Senate and Congress budget / Boing Boing
How corporate America's lobbying budget surpassed the combined Senate and Congress budget »
'We Shall Overcome' Copyright May Be Overcome by 'Happy Birthday' Lawyers / Boing Boing
'We Shall Overcome' Copyright May Be Overcome by 'Happy Birthday' Lawyers »
99% Invisible by Radiotopia on iTunes
How the vocoder helped win WWII - »
Oakland Cops Quietly Acquired Social Media Surveillance Tool | East Bay Express
Oakland & San Jose are using social media surveillance software Geofeedia: How it works: htt... »
This 25-Year-Old Is Turning a Profit Selling Pencils - Bloomberg
Caroline killing it!!! Link: This 25-Year-Old Is Turning a Profit Selling Pencils - Bloomberg »
Sketch 3.7 and New Symbols — Sketch Stories
Sketch 3.7 update is now available for download Read more in our blog »
The dark side of Guardian comments | Technology | The Guardian
The Guardian analyzed abusive comments on its website. Surprise surprise: 8 of the 10 most abused writers are women https:… »
Feminism Proving Popular With Men After Being Re-Released In Tactical Matte Black – Point & Clickbait
Feminism Proving Popular With Men After Being Re-Released In Tactical Matte Black »
Facebook Has Seized the Media, and That’s Bad News for Everyone But Facebook | WIRED
"Facebook now tells the industry what matters most, which dictates how resources are spent + what stories are told.” »
#EqualPayDay, “impostor syndrome”, and flipping tables – hypatia dot ca
#EqualPayDay, “impostor syndrome”, and flipping tables »
Daring Fireball: Sprint Calls T-Mobile 'Ghetto' in Ad (Now Pulled)
Sprint Calls T-Mobile ‘Ghetto’ in Ad (Now Pulled) »
Running The Arkham Press: Daily Chthonicle | Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Run a newspaper in a town haunted by ghosts, lycanthropes and elder gods - »
From Siri to sexbots: Female AI reinforces a toxic desire for passive, agreeable and easily dominated women - Salon.com
From Siri to sexbots: Female AI reinforces a toxic desire for passive, agreeable and easily dominated women https://t.co… »
18F — 7 projects that state and local governments can reuse
7 projects from 18F that state and local governments can reuse »
Columbia House of Horrors: How Not to Run a Subscription Business | Re/code
Ah, the cause of many groundings in our teenage years »
Amazon’s Kindle Oasis is the funkiest e-reader it’s ever made | The Verge
Kindle Oasis looks great but not sure if I really want it »
Underwriters Labs refuses to share new IoT cybersecurity standard | Ars Technica UK
uh... there's a "cybersecurity" standard for IoT. Want to check if it's any good? sorry, you have to pay for that »
BuzzFeed didn’t cut its 2016 forecast in half, says BuzzFeed chair Ken Lerer | Re/code
what a day for digital media! this is my new favorite quote. ty @pkafka source re: buzzfeed https://… »
New Balance says Obama administration reneged on a deal involving military business - The Boston Globe
New Balance says Obama admin tried to bribe it with a govt contract to get support for TPP https:/… »
All-male Harvard club breaks silence to reject adding women
Sexism? Look to the “best & brightest” idiots at @Harvard: Male Harvard club breaks silence to reject adding women »
Elizabeth Warren Wants To Take Down TurboTax | ThinkProgress
Elizabeth Warren wants to take down TurboTax, which lobbies US Congress to keep tax prep confusing for their profit: https://t.c… »
Facebook's New Master Plan: Kill Other Apps : All Tech Considered : NPR
Appreciative of the part of this story that focuses on the ugly bad things that happen on FB »
Why I’m Supporting Bernie Sanders - The New York Times
Really excited that @SenJeffMerkley has endorsed @BernieSanders for President. »
The Absurd Primacy of the Automobile in American Life - The Atlantic
"Considering the fatalities...pollution... there is no better word to characterize the car’s dominance than insane." https:… »
Moishe's Blog - Fascists, and their apologists
I wrote about my grandfather, and LambdaConf »
Hero octopus successfully escapes aquarium and finds his way to freedom
Octopus successfully escapes aquarium and makes its way to ocean »
Apple did not invent emoji / fuzzy notepad
Apple Did Not Invent Emoji »
Technology Is for Rich People - The Atlantic
S. Valley’s outlook on tech, opportunity ignores systematic inequalities. Tech Is for Rich People / @TheAtlantic »
Ted Cruz Radio Ad Intensifies Feud With Mayor Bill de Blasio - First Draft. Political News, Now. - The New York Times
.@tedcruz indicates that murder rates in NYC are up 10%. The fact is that it's DOWN 20% »
The Tree of Life Just Got a Lot Weirder - The Atlantic
Love @edyong209's final paragraph in "The tree of life just got a lot weirder" »
Wired News: Bots Open Door to Gaming History
All this talk about bot history reminded me of Infocombot, my text adventure bot from 2004. Wired's report on it »
FBI paid professional hackers one-time fee to crack San Bernardino iPhone - The Washington Post
So it wasn't Cellebrite-did the FBI really pay hackers? Or just buy this device off Ebay? »
Here’s how much of your life the United States has been at war - The Washington Post
Here’s how much of your life the United States has been at war »
What I Learned from Trying to Innovate at the New York Times
Media companies are too insular and need to open up to grow, argues @johngeraci »
Robot Check
Floating in space last night at @arielwaldman's geeky astronaut book launch party »
The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie | Society | The Guardian
Everyone has already recommended this, but it’s the most STS-informed investigative journalism I’ve maybe ever read: https:/… »
The dirty little secret that data journalists aren’t telling you - The Washington Post
“Visualizing data is as much an art as a science…. design decisions can radically alter how numbers are perceived” »
funkzonepodcast.com/2016/04/05/episode-069-parry-gripp
For one more day, check out my chat with @parrygripp of @NerfHerder_band as we work on our next episode »
bird and moon – Protest
ICYMI, I made a new comic about climate change. »
How ‘Empowerment’ Became Something for Women to Buy - The New York Times
"People who talk empowerment are, by definition, already there." A++ piece by @jiatolentino w/@katelosse shout-out https… »
Hyper Light Drifter | Disasterpeace
Well, here it is. ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY NINE MINUTES AND TEN SECONDS. #HyperLightDrifter »
Save 33% on Hyper Light Drifter on Steam
Hyper Light Drifter OST is released! 139 minutes of @Disasterpeace's brilliant score »
Websites That Work | Indiegogo
Help small business owners take control of their web presence. Support Websites that Work! »
Twitch
Drawing more Disneyland snacks today! »
[RFC] Port to Android by modocache · Pull Request #1442 · apple/swift · GitHub
The Swift Android port is merged! Thanks @zhuowei and many others! »
Kalief Browder, 1993–2015 - The New Yorker
More on Kalief Browder, who killed himself after his release - he was never tried - if your heart can stand it. »
Paperholm
Paperholm, "a growing paper city." »
San Francisco WoodShop
Come to the open house at the woodshop I help run! It's awesome and you'll love it. »
CV Dazzle: Camouflage from Face Detection
So fashion has caught up to thwarting face recognition technology. It's just so cyberpunk: https://t.co… »
TWiT Live | TWiT.TV
Looking forward to being on This Week in Google in a couple hours. We'll be »
diesel sweeties by @rstevens : robot webcomic & geeky music t-shirts
Tonight’s comic is about disagreeing with people on the internets »