9 Best Articles in 2022
height.app
Building like it's 1984: A comprehensive guide to creating intuitive context menus
height.app
6 min read · Feb 1st · Context menus have existed for decades, from macOS to Windows, from Xerox Park to the web. They’re a widely understood user interface concept, but many new apps still fail to deliver them at the…
Reader View · Shared by 225, including Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Stammy, Luca Corsilli, Casey Smith, Chris Messina, Esther Schindler, Devon Govett, Stéphanie Walter, Stu Collett
Atlassian
5 diagrams that show how context switching saps your productivity
Atlassian
5 min read · 2021-11-01 · The human brain can handle only so much change in a day. Here's how to keep context switching from tanking your productivity.
Reader View · Shared by 519, including maxadorno, Phillip Murphy, rohit, Oliver Raduner, Katja Evertz, Stephanie A Kowalski
medium.com
Designing New Ways to Give Context to News Stories
medium.com
8 min read · From 2018 · The research and design thinking behind adding new context to articles in News Feed
Reader View · Shared by 75, including Roney Lacerda, Mark Kaigwa, Fabricio Teixeira, kp 🇺🇦, Matt Navarra, Christian P. Stobbe, Design at Meta, Andreas Spiegler
Kent C. Dodds 💿 #RemixConf
How to use React Context effectively
Kent C. Dodds 💿 #RemixConf
~17 min read · From 2019 · How to create and expose React Context providers and consumers
Reader View · Shared by 28, including Michael Weibel, Dayyan Smith, Kahlil Lechelt
Aeon+Psyche
What if emotions aren’t universal but specific to each culture?
Aeon+Psyche
~16 min read · 2021-10-08 · What if emotions are not universal and hardwired but exquisite acts of meaning-making specific to context and culture?
Reader View · Shared by 304, including Gregg Caruso, Larry G. Maguire 🇺🇦, Ian M Calvert, Jason Silva, Anita Leirfall, Marylin Delgado, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos
The Verge
Google search’s next phase: context is king
The Verge
6 min read · 2021-09-29 · AI will help Google explore the questions people are asking.
Reader View · Shared by 210, including Christian Müller, Kelly Hungerford 🌻, rozin-lior, James Gingerich, @Expeflow #WorkEasier #RPA, Real Marsha Wright®, Matthew Turland, Bill Slawski ⚓ 🇺🇦
Inverse
How to break bad habits in 3 steps, according to science
Inverse
4 min read · 2020-09-27 · Changing your habits isn't about motivation or knowledge. It's about context.
Reader View · Shared by 290, including abhishek yadav, Beth Price Almeida, Ⓓarío Macchi, Marsha Collier, nuuk, Bernhard Huessy
JSTOR Daily
Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus
JSTOR Daily
5 min read · 2020-06-01 · How can we help students understand George Floyd's death in the context of institutionalized racism?
Reader View · Shared by 290, including Stéphanie Walter, Ayala Sherbow, Jeff Heuer, Kevin M. Kruse, Guernica Magazine, Shanna Peeples she/her 🏳️🌈, Dov Nelkin OOOOOooo, Andrew Ermogenous, Fabian Pfortmüller, Jeff Jarvis, Priya Parker, Felix M
Smashing Magazine 🇺🇦
Understanding CSS Layout And The Block Formatting Context
Smashing Magazine 🇺🇦
6 min read · From 2017 · You might never have heard the phrase 'Block Formatting Context', but if you have used CSS for layout you probably already know what it does. In this article I’ll explain the existing ways to create a…
Reader View · Shared by 51, including Rodrigo Noales, Rachel Andrew, Thomas Power, Thomas Wong, numano, Markus Merz, David Hellmann, Tableless
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brainlenses.substack.com
Infinite Scroll
brainlenses.substack.com
2 min read · Mar 30th · In the context of user interfaces, "scrolling" refers to the vertical or horizontal shifting of content across a display. So if you're playing a side-scroller video game like old-school Nintendo…
Reader View · Shared by 205, including Mark Kaigwa, rohit, Arturo Rebolledo, Colin Wright
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Charles Mingus discusses his book "Beneath The Underdog"
studsterkel.wfmt.com
20+ min read · May 23rd · Studs Terkel speaks with Charles Mingus about his life and work in the context of his autobiography "Beneath The Underdog".
Reader View · Shared by 88
medium.com
On NYT Magazine on AI: Resist the Urge to be Impressed
medium.com
20+ min read · Apr 18th
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 76, including Jesse Baer 🔥, Brian T. Edwards, Josep M. Ganyet, Bob E. Hayes, Emily M. Bender, Mike Tamir, PhD, Timnit Gebru, Kent Bye VoicesOfVR
The New Yorker
What’s Missing from Alito’s Decision to Revoke the Right to Abortion
The New Yorker
4 min read · May 3rd · In a leaked draft, the Justice points to “history and tradition” but ignores the context of both the past and the present.
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Internet 3.0 and the Beginning of (Tech) History
Stratechery
~12 min read · 2021-01-12 · The actions taken by Big Tech have a resonance that goes beyond the context of domestic U.S. politics. Even if they were right, they will still push the world to Internet 3.0.
Reader View · Shared by 260, including Tom Connor, Stephan Woodtli, Mark Kaigwa, Scott Monty, Cameron Yick, Clemens M. Schuster, Chris Isak , Ben Thompson, Katja Evertz, Chris Messina, Chris Heilmann, Scott Brinker, Kevin Roberts, Steve Case, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Tomio Geron, David Nagel
medium.com
Stop Using Google Trends
medium.com
2 min read · From 2016 · Alternatively titled ‘Be aware of context, and maybe start using Google AdWords’ Instead
Reader View · Shared by 252, including Andreas Von Gunten, Jakob Adler, Mathew Ingram, Conlin Durbin, Helmut Adam, David Bauer, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦, Greg Meyer, Stephanie A Kowalski, grimm, Klaus Eck, Casey Smith, Michelle Tandler ⚖️, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Nick Lüthi, Jane, Dominik Grolimund, Barnaby Skinner, Alex Barrera, Esther Schindler
a16z
Required Reading for Marketplace Entrepreneurs
a16z
4 min read · From 2020 · The marketplace canon: 20 recently published pieces that helped shape our thinking on the business dynamics, historical context, and future of marketplaces.
Reader View · Shared by 215, including Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Stephanie Palmeri, Jeff Jordan, sircharlsxavier, Mathias Böhm, Cindy Krum 📱, Clemens, Andrew Chen 🎮, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Version One Ventures, Dez S. Papp
The Baffler
Grin and Bear It
The Baffler
~12 min read · 2020-10-28 · The rise of neo-Stoicism is convenient for those searching for examples of goodness in a context that has been made unequal by design.
Reader View · Shared by 140, including Massimo Pigliucci, Fabrizio Bianchi, Ceferino Díaz
brainlenses.substack.com
McNamara Fallacy
brainlenses.substack.com
3 min read · Feb 10th · We live in a world of unrivaled—in the historical context—quantitative potential. We can track our sleep, the number of steps we take per day, our heart rate and blood-oxygen levels and blood pressure…
Y Combinator
Building for the Blockchain
Y Combinator
8 min read · From 2018 · Our goal in this post is to: 1. Explain how blockchain development differs from existing development paradigms. 2. Provide context for the opportunities and challenges in this space. 3. Point you to…
Reader View · Shared by 212, including Eckart Burgwedel, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, tcherno, yawniek, Cédric Köhler, Thomas Power, von Moerenburgh, Simone Corsi 💻🚀, Alexander Seifert, Moritz Orendt, Mario Camou, Yvette Dubel, Agustin, David Nagel, Amaury Martiny, Oleg Baskov, Danny Prol
brainlenses.substack.com
Infinite Scroll
brainlenses.substack.com
2 min read · Mar 30th · In the context of user interfaces, "scrolling" refers to the vertical or horizontal shifting of content across a display. So if you're playing a side-scroller video game like old-school Nintendo…
Reader View · Shared by 205, including Mark Kaigwa, rohit, Arturo Rebolledo, Colin Wright
thinkingthrough.substack.com
Context switching costs more than we give it credit for.
thinkingthrough.substack.com
3 min read · 2021-01-18 · (4 min read) Batching things by function can skyrocket your productivity.
Reader View · Shared by 141, including Gabriele, BrendanEich, Massimiliano Aroffo, Tom Connor
Noema Magazine
How AI Will Advance In The Next Two Decades
Noema Magazine
9 min read · 2021-10-05 · Kai-Fu Lee explains how intelligent machines will master context, enable precision medicine — and use vast amounts of energy for computation.
Reader View · Shared by 167, including Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, John Hagel
