WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:16.833 The Weekly Thing, issue 4. Weekly Thing for June 3, twenty seventeen. Published June 3, twenty seventeen. By Jamie Thingelstad. In this issue: Fuck Facebook, Pinboard acquires Delicious, enough microservices, Siri Speaker, Halide, Airbnb data science, blockchains ground up. 00:00:17.433 --> 00:00:37.114 No new sections to the Weekly Thing this week, I think the format is pretty well settled and I’m planning this week to more broadly spread the word about this. I need a better subscribe page on my main website for it. Feedback is still desired, just reply to this email if you have suggestions or just want to say hello! 00:00:37.614 --> 00:00:50.778 A lot of links this week again. Next week we have Apple's Wordwide Developer Conference. I’m eager to see what get's announced. New macOS and iOS versions are a given and the rumored Siri Speaker has my interest piqued. 00:00:52.178 --> 00:00:53.836 Now, the Blog posts section. 00:00:54.436 --> 00:00:56.112 Turing Tumble on Kickstarter. 00:00:56.612 --> 00:01:06.431 Very cool Kickstarter project to learn the fundamentals of how computers work! Made by Paul Boswell right here in Minneapolis. Hit it’s funding goal on the first day. 00:01:07.831 --> 00:01:09.552 That's the end of Blog posts. 00:01:10.952 --> 00:01:12.262 Now, the Photog section. 00:01:12.862 --> 00:01:42.649 There is a dirt path that follows Minnehaha Creek as you come down Logan Ave heading south. Just after walking over a small bridge it veers off the sidewalk and heads to Morgan Ave, our street. It’s short and sometimes can be a bit muddy if it’s rained a lot. I love taking that path whenever I can. It is like a little escape, a momentary pause from the city. If you look the right direction you feel like your in the woods. Stop for a moment, take a breath, listen to the water. 00:01:43.149 --> 00:01:50.699 June 1, twenty seventeen, 7:31 PM 5100 Logan Ave S Minneapolis‎ MN‎ 55419 United States. 00:01:52.099 --> 00:01:53.430 That's the end of Photog. 00:01:54.830 --> 00:01:56.069 Now, the Links section. 00:01:56.669 --> 00:01:58.949 Link one. There are bots. Look around. 00:01:59.449 --> 00:02:08.402 Quote. The marketplace of ideas is now struggling with the increasing incidence of algorithmic manipulation and disinformation campaigns. End quote. 00:02:09.302 --> 00:02:11.646 Link two. Daring Fireball: Fuck Facebook. 00:02:12.146 --> 00:02:30.743 Quote. You might think it’s hyperbole for Winer to say that Facebook is trying to kill the open web. But they are. I complain about Google AMP, but AMP is just a dangerous step toward a Google-owned walled garden — Facebook is designed from the ground up as an all-out attack on the open web. End quote. 00:02:31.643 --> 00:02:34.907 Link three. Enough with the microservices, Adam Drake. 00:02:35.407 --> 00:02:49.332 Provocative post that you could write about whatever the tech 'fad' of the moment is. While it could be seen as a cynical perspective, it’s worth keeping this in your mind. Technology can at time love fads, and fetishize complexity. 00:02:50.232 --> 00:02:52.899 Link four. Disposable AppleScripts, All this. 00:02:53.399 --> 00:03:06.624 Nice writeup to remind us to consider the scripting engines of Mac OS as quick hit power tools. Often people only consider these ways to automate very frequent tasks. They can be crazy powerful for one off things too. 00:03:07.524 --> 00:03:10.115 Link five. Change goes away, The IT Skeptic. 00:03:10.615 --> 00:03:19.412 Quote. What does IT operational production change management look like in a highly DevOps-driven organisation? It doesn't. It vanishes. End quote. 00:03:20.312 --> 00:03:26.034 Link six. The Always On Architecture, Moving Beyond Legacy Disaster Recovery, High Scalability. 00:03:26.534 --> 00:03:42.286 Quote. Failover does not cut it anymore. You need an ALWAYS ON architecture with multiple data centers. Failover, switching to a redundant or standby system when a component fails, has a long and checkered history as a way of dealing with failure. End quote. 00:03:43.186 --> 00:03:45.682 Link seven. Github / face classification. 00:03:46.182 --> 00:03:51.500 Remember this technology every time you interact with a digital advertising display in a store. 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:54.873 Link eight. Pinboard Acquires Delicious. 00:03:55.373 --> 00:04:17.514 Pinboard has always been a scrappy little 1-person 'solopreneur' company. It’s founder has built a solid small business. Delicious was the first big website for bookmarks. It was, at various times, worth millions of dollars. Now Pinboard still stands, and is growing slowly but consistently. And Delicious is now owned by Pinboard. It all comes full circle. 00:04:18.414 --> 00:04:22.193 Link nine. No Assistant, No Problem: Using a Calendaring Service. 00:04:22.693 --> 00:04:28.489 I use Calendly in a similar way to how Kati describes in this post. It’s been a great service for me! 00:04:29.389 --> 00:04:33.952 Link ten. twenty seventeen Internet Trends, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers. 00:04:34.452 --> 00:04:40.423 Mary Meeker has been publishing her annual perspective on the web for years now. Always a good read. 00:04:41.323 --> 00:04:44.285 Link eleven. People You Want to Work With, Allen Pike. 00:04:44.785 --> 00:04:47.433 Quote. You should have a Hire List. End quote. 00:04:48.333 --> 00:04:53.038 Link twelve. How Facebook's tentacles reach further than you think, BBC News. 00:04:53.538 --> 00:05:10.702 Quote. Facebook's collection of data makes it one of the most influential organisations in the world. Share Lab wanted to look "under the bonnet" at the tech giant's algorithms and connections to better understand the social structure and power relations within the company. End quote. 00:05:11.602 --> 00:05:15.771 Link thirteen. Dual Track Development is not Duel Track, Jeff Patton. 00:05:16.271 --> 00:05:50.770 Quote. That’s our bet, our best guess, our belief, our hypothesis. All of those are uncomfortable words for people who believe they’re building the right thing. But, the truth is, we’re always making a bet that we’ll get value. Embedded in that bet are lots of assumptions, risks, and maybe some questions. To focus our learning, we’ll choose the assumption, risk, or question that scares us the most and identify an experiment or method to learn. Then do it. Then use what we’ve learned to change all those going-in beliefs about problems and solutions. End quote. 00:05:51.670 --> 00:05:53.538 Link fourteen. Welcome to Cast. 00:05:54.038 --> 00:05:57.971 This has to be one of the easiest ways to create your own podcast. 00:05:58.871 --> 00:06:04.221 Link fifteen. Apple Is Manufacturing a Siri Speaker to Outdo Google and Amazon, Bloomberg. 00:06:04.721 --> 00:06:18.419 Quote. Device enters overseas production ahead of annual conference Company seeks differentiation with surround sound, Apple Music Apple Inc. is already in your pocket, on your desk and underneath your television. End quote. 00:06:19.319 --> 00:06:25.055 Link sixteen. Airbnb is running its own internal university to teach data science, TechCrunch. 00:06:25.555 --> 00:06:48.842 Quote. Tech companies, and increasingly even non-tech companies, are struggling with the fact that there are not enough trained data scientists to fill market demand. Every company has their own strategy for hiring and training, but Airbnb has taken things a step further — running its own university-style program, complete with a custom course-numbering system. End quote. 00:06:49.742 --> 00:06:52.110 Link seventeen. Clutter, a n n i e m u e l l e r. 00:06:52.610 --> 00:06:53.714 Clutter v. Messes. 00:06:54.614 --> 00:06:56.809 Link eighteen. Halide, Daring Fireball. 00:06:57.309 --> 00:07:23.366 Quote. It takes some real grit to create a new iPhone camera app in twenty seventeen. To say that “camera apps” constitute a crowded category in the App Store is an understatement, and every camera app is competing against the system’s built-in Camera app, which (a) is very good, and (b) has built-in advantages — like being accessible from the lock screen by swiping right — that third-party apps can’t match. End quote. 00:07:24.266 --> 00:07:25.309 Link nineteen. Halide. 00:07:25.809 --> 00:07:40.406 Quote. Smartphones feature excellent camera sensors, but the experience of taking photos is still far less pleasant than using a physical camera. Halide gives you a tactile, intuitive, yet powerful way to take beautiful photos. End quote. 00:07:41.306 --> 00:07:44.083 Link twenty. On Time Blocking, Using OmniFocus. 00:07:44.583 --> 00:07:58.479 Quote. What is time blocking? Time blocking is the act of scheduling sessions of work on a calendar. By deliberately assigning work time on a calendar, we automatically acknowledge the immutable resource of time. End quote. 00:07:59.379 --> 00:08:04.365 Link twenty one. Linea + iCloud: Your Sketches, Everywhere You Need Them • The Breakroom. 00:08:04.865 --> 00:08:08.634 Nice improvements in a very solid drawing app for the iPad Pro. 00:08:09.534 --> 00:08:13.916 Link twenty two. Blockchains from the ground up: Part 1, John Mathews. 00:08:14.416 --> 00:08:28.858 Quote. Using a scenario that begins with the exchange of apples for oranges, understand the essential concepts and advantages of blockchains. This is part 1 of an introduction to the key features of a generalised blockchain. End quote. 00:08:29.758 --> 00:08:31.246 Link twenty three. Yoink. 00:08:31.746 --> 00:08:37.567 Quote. Simplify and Improve Drag and Drop on your Mac and speed up your daily workflow. End quote. 00:08:38.467 --> 00:08:40.116 Link twenty four. WhereGoes? 00:08:40.616 --> 00:08:58.405 Quote. WhereGoes does 1 thing: it takes a URL and shows you the entire path of redirects and meta-refreshes that leads to the final destination. It's a unique utility that lets you troubleshoot links and perform competitive intelligence in a way that wasn't possible before. End quote. 00:08:59.305 --> 00:09:03.769 Link twenty five. Platform Tech Strategy: The Three Layers, ThoughtWorks. 00:09:04.269 --> 00:09:18.123 Quote. It feels like everyone is talking about platforms. Platform Thinking, Platform Strategies even the Platform Revolution. Platforms, it is argued, are the disruptive secret upon which a digital business is formed. End quote. 00:09:19.523 --> 00:09:20.770 That's the end of Links. 00:09:22.170 --> 00:09:24.176 Now, the Microblog updates section. 00:09:24.776 --> 00:09:31.138 First, walked around the block in an attempt to close my activity rings. Stubbornly stuck with 1 minute to go. 00:09:31.638 --> 00:09:32.958 Second, minnehaha Creek. 00:09:33.458 --> 00:09:35.588 Third, fidget spinner thing happened. 00:09:36.088 --> 00:09:42.322 Fourth, backed Turing Tumble on Kickstarter! Looks like a really fun game to play and learn with kids! 00:09:42.822 --> 00:09:47.405 Fifth, lost my leather coin purse. Good thing I inventoried some replacements. 00:09:47.905 --> 00:09:52.011 Sixth, holiday weekend. Mandatory grilling. Big Green Egg for the win! 00:09:52.511 --> 00:09:56.195 Seventh, some cold fishing for crappies this morning off the dock. 00:09:56.695 --> 00:10:01.388 Eighth, evening bike ride with the kids to Shager Park beach on Cannon Lake. 00:10:01.888 --> 00:10:06.411 Ninth, trying to figure out how to throw a horseshoe. Still more work to do. 00:10:06.911 --> 00:10:10.499 Tenth, today was a 10 out of 10. Way to go everyone! 00:10:10.999 --> 00:10:15.218 Number 11, got the bags out too. Quest to have all the yard games! 00:10:15.718 --> 00:10:18.559 Number 12, nice afternoon on Cannon Lake. 00:10:19.059 --> 00:10:21.143 Number 13, ringer! #horseshoes. 00:10:22.543 --> 00:10:24.749 That's the end of Microblog updates. 00:10:25.249 --> 00:10:36.554 Thank you for subscribing. If you know of people that would like the Weekly Thing please forward it to them and spread the word! 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