Five Links #44
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Five links for your inbox from this week.
1. Rand Fishkin’s video setup
Anyone who follows Rand Fishkin will have seen Rand’s snappy video explainers. It’s an unusual but brilliantly personal format: slides/screenshare on the right, with Rand talking to camera in the left quarter/third of the screen.
In this short post, Rand talks through the setup.
2. Tweetbot and Twitterrific Face the Cliff
John Gruber on Twitter, third-party developers and their impossible situation:
You surely recall that last month, in a fit of pique, Elon Musk spitefully pulled the plug on third-party Twitter clients with no notice whatsoever, in the most chickenshit way imaginable. Twitter didn’t even make it official that third-party clients had been banned until a week of confusion and dread had passed.
Chickenshit is quickly becoming one of my favourite US phrases.
When a landlord decides to sell or repurpose a rental property, they give tenants notice that their leases won’t be renewed, months in advance. That’s always unpleasant and difficult. But they don’t just show up in the middle of the night, mid-lease, and change the locks or bulldoze the building.
This great analogy is part of a much longer, well-worth-reading piece that leads to this conclusion:
If you are a subscriber to either Tweetbot or Twitterrific, I beseech you to decline these prorated refunds. It’s a couple of bucks for you, but in the aggregate, this amounts to an existential sum of already booked revenue for these two companies, both exemplars of the indie iOS and Mac community.
Reinstall the app if you’ve already deleted it. Tap that “I Don’t Need a Refund” button and feel good about it. We have a month. Spread the word.
3. Git, GitHub and GitLab explainer
A brilliant explainer on Git from IBM. It starts with a terrible pun, but stick with it…
(Also, seriously impressive reverse writing skills…or some mirror trick, perhaps?)
4. Family
A brand new serif from one of my favourite type foundries, Klim.
5. Flowershow
Publish your markdown notes to a website without coding.
Projects + other things
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Until next time,
Dave