2019-01-04
Digital Hoarding
While I avoid most social media, I do enjoy Twitter for a number of reasons. Not the modern form, but the 12 year old original invention: 144 character text messages sent to your phone. This is very convenient for reading in the elevator or subway where there's no signal, and I can ignore them for days and they just pile up in my inbox.
Unfortunately I have accumulated a number of people I follow who are too interesting, and even after reading the initial message, I want to save the info for later to look into further. One of the worst of course is @donpark who seems to have a great deal of free time to look into curious and interesting technologies of all sorts. Cleaning out a previous phone that still had over a hundred saved notes brings up cool things like:
While I avoid most social media, I do enjoy Twitter for a number of reasons. Not the modern form, but the 12 year old original invention: 144 character text messages sent to your phone. This is very convenient for reading in the elevator or subway where there's no signal, and I can ignore them for days and they just pile up in my inbox.
Unfortunately I have accumulated a number of people I follow who are too interesting, and even after reading the initial message, I want to save the info for later to look into further. One of the worst of course is @donpark who seems to have a great deal of free time to look into curious and interesting technologies of all sorts. Cleaning out a previous phone that still had over a hundred saved notes brings up cool things like:
- Thumbcoil a web based video inspector built on top of Mux.js a lightweight javascript library for manipulating video container formats.
- Dropbox paper a free collaborative workspace for teams.
- Stories of the software that went into Mac QuickDraw on folklore.org: Round Rects are Everywhere
- JPEG advancements at Google with the new Guetzli encoder.
- News on the Open API Spec v3 Draft
- A pastebin for rich text: ctxt.io
- The Noiszy chrome plugin to obfuscate you web activity.
- An article on React Sketch.app from airbnb.design
- Drawing maps using ascii
- Visualizing network connections with traceroute mapper
- Online access to A new kind of science by Stephen Wolfram.
- The data visualization table used by @FT to decide the one to use.
And a print version as well at github repo - A visual deconstruction of the design of react.js
- Fira, a coding font with ligatures. Though I'm an outlier and actually prefer to program with proportional spaced fonts.
- Choo.js, a tiny (4k) framework.
- An ancient (2012) article on Distributed Algorithms in NoSQL Databases
- A lightweight process isolation tool for linux. nsjail
- Vuex state management pattern and library for vue.js
- A fast compression library, zstd as a replacement from zlib.
