Last week my final official act at GitHub went live, and I wrote about it!

I didn't share it in last week's newsletter because the news broke after Wednesday, which is when I typically send this newsletter out. Tragically, time is linear and I am subservient to it.

A Brief History of the Bloomberg Terminal
Bloomberg terminals are fascinating to me in that they have to be all business and support incredibly dense data.

Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards
Guess I've got terminals and dashboards on the brain 😅

Being asked to sanitise Wikipedia entries
"If you or your client are concerned about bad things being listed, maybe work towards doing good things instead that can be cited after."

Air Theremin
Delivers what it promises.

Screen Reader User Survey #11 Results
Vital reading if you do anything related to digital accessibility work.

The tweet that defined a decade of Trump
"Being the unintentional voice of political pessimism can make a person something of a pessimist."

AFixt Comments on the WCAG 3 Conformance Model
Agreed.

The Bizarre, Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris
Can I just say I love the line, "Tetris is a story of contrasts."

‘Absolute s–t’: EU’s Microsoft Teams alternative draws bad reviews from officials
Parity in experience is important!

Design is a nice-to-have
"In a world in which you can make anything, you still have to make something useful."

A Brief History of the Industrial Musical
Did I listen to "My Bathroom" before sharing this? You better believe it.

Opening the can of tooltips
title is such a dogshit attribute, and I'm excited at the idea that we might be able to improve it.

What does my dream OS UI look like?
I'm here for the deep research.

FrankMoji
I love that this person made their own emoji set, and also didn't half-ass it.

Why don’t more developers “use the platform”?
My take is honestly a little more cynical.

The Story Of Burger King's Ill-Fated McWhopper
Stone cold, Ronald. Stone cold.

The Loch Ness Monster and fascism: When Italy claimed to have killed Nessie
I chose to believe this actually happened.

The Crawler Zoo
Jeebus.

Alternative Health Influencer Boasts That He’s Been Drinking From a Radioactive Jug for 250 Days Straight
Thinking about Eben Byers for no reason.

TV Simulator Poems
This site sent me a cold call email thinking I'd like it, and: guilty as charged.

Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol
I want it!

Dark Forestry: Notes on a new season for technologists
"All the infinite promise of technology is swallowed by the maw of capital’s seething hate of the labor on which it was, for so long, so reluctantly dependent."

We are going to kill “unalive”
"Our creativity can be constrained by the language we use — our imaginations are limited by what we can think to say."

Dungeons & Dragons, Duel Masters, and Magic: The Gathering Teams Unionize At Hasbro
But also, a better world is possible.

Beauty in DVD Menus
These menus were annoying in the moment, but charming in hindsight—everyone was trying to figure out the interactions together.

Exclusive: How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t
"The result was a publication-quality photograph she saw no need to comment on in her lab book."

Cripple Punk Motifs in Tank Chair
I did not expect to see crip punk and manga in the same place at the same time!

Dark Patterns Won
"This sleight of hand makes platformisation a drain on social trust because things continue to get worse, and people can’t figure out why."

Crafting Apps
So, here's the consequences of this as I see it: Adobe has to now choose between: A) Suing and in doing so admit, and set precedent for, clean room design being copyright infringement, or B) Do nothing, tacitly giving permission for everyone stealing and recreating their intellectual property. In both cases: I need a cigarette.

Multilingual directional signage in Indian metros: Challenges of integrating Devanagari with Latin and regional scripts
I'm never not fascinated by translation and localization deep dives.