Bloomberg Graphics
What Is Code?
Summary · · If you’re not a professional programmer but you’ve ever used a computer, this article is for you – seriously. You will learn what code is, what software is, how apps get written, and what different programming languages do and why they matter. Plus you’ll get details about other technical issues. Along the way, Bloomberg Businessweek reporter Paul Ford explains the culture and some of the psychology of programming. This delightfully animated article is essential for anyone not in the programming field who uses computers. getAbstract recommends it to everyone interested in learning more about programming, its culture and its principles. · Shared by 1037, including Jeff Atwood, Moritz Meenen, David Hellmann, getAbstract, Joel Califa, Ryan Boren, Adrian🇨🇭, Tatjana Nebel, John Battelle, Daniel Williams, Kevin Marks 🏠kevinmarks.com xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks, Will Hoag 🏔‼️, wahalulu@fosstodon.org Marck Vaisman, ThomNagy, Gabriele, Nils Hitze, Greg Meyer, Rodrigo Franco (Caffo), Jane Friedman, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social
medium.com
Tools for Systems Thinkers: The 6 Fundamental Concepts of Systems Thinking
Summary · 9 min · · In this series on systems thinking, I share the key insights and tools needed to develop and advance a systems mindset for dealing with… · Shared by 994, including Brain Traffic, Lluís Codina, designshard, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, Parin Vachhani, getAbstract, Manos Hatzimalonas, Chris Messina, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Ines Bieler, Rodrigo Prior, Katja Evertz, Antonio Vieira Santos, Mark Kaigwa, Dominik Grolimund, Christina, Bill Johnston, Mara Averick, Fabrice Liut 🍌🥑😌, Patrick Neeman
medium.com
We Don’t Sell Saddles Here — Medium
12+ min · · The memo below was sent to the team at Tiny Speck, the makers of Slack, on July 31st, 2013. It had been a little under seven months since… · Shared by 643, including ja hallo met kasper, Scott Brinker, Fareed Mosavat, ErmanTaylan.eth, Dominik Grolimund, Ricky Yean, Ryan Boren, Charles Adler, Center Centre – UIE, Joel Califa, 🎆 🌸 Samuel Hulick 🌸 🌄, Greg Meyer, adrianleb.eth, Thomas Power, Remo Uherek, Sachin Rekhi, Steven Sinofsky, Victor Tolosa, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Patrick OShaughnessy
Airbnb Design
Sketching Interfaces
2 min · · Generating code from low fidelity wireframes · Shared by 617, including Danny Prol, Joe Lencioni, Yvette Dubel, Oleg Baskov, Dez S. Papp, James Young, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, designshard, Rezha Julio, Erick Mazer Yamashita, Oliver Pitsch, Chris Messina, Mohamed Azazy, Marc Steffen, Thomas Power, Dominik Grolimund, mar, Kunal Bhatia, Zain Fathoni, David Hellmann
Our World in Data
You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is…
2 min · · ‘Eat local’ is a common recommendation to reduce the carbon footprint of your diet. But transport tends to account for a small share of greenhouse gas emissions. How does the impact of what you eat… · Shared by 431, including Rob Moffat, Jane IMAGINABLE McGonigal ❤️, René Clausen Nielsen, Elrond Burrell (he/him), Ray Monk, Hannah Ritchie, Philip Junker, Jennifer Stirrup #MBA Topics: #AI #Data #Strategy, Niko Kommenda, Thomas Power, Joss Fong ❌, George Monbiot, Dr. Marshall Shepherd, Matthias Lampe, Katja Evertz, Max Roser, Noah Iliinsky vis.social/@noahi, Jonathan Kogan, Jakob Adler, Joe Lencioni
material.io
Material Design
3 min · · Material Design is a unified system that combines theory, resources, and tools for crafting digital experiences. · Shared by 378, including Klaus Eck, Jamie Indigo 👾 100% Human Technical SEO, hiten.eth, Stef Walter, Jane Manchun Wong, Nick Butcher, Jake Archibald, Chris Isak, Kevin Marks 🏠kevinmarks.com xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks, Chris Messina, Adobe XD, Chris Banes, Brad Frost, Adham Dannaway, Eric Bailey, Veerle Pieters, designshard, patrick h. lauke (redux) "Big Dog" #toryScum #cis, Josep M. Ganyet, Adrian Roselli (no blue check) 🗯
UX Collective
Introducing Mercury OS
20+ min · · A speculative vision of the operating system, driven by humane design principles. · Shared by 324, including Gio Tiongson, Rick Powell, @AlgoCompSynth@ravenation.club by znmeb, Chris Messina, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, KOstas, Niklaus Gerber, Gabriele, Bill Johnston, Marius Bleuer, Herbert Bay, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, @benp sur mastodon.social, Sachin Rekhi, Simone Corsi 💻🚀, Hugo Londoño, Philippe Surber, Esther Schindler, Oliver Raduner, Linus Basig
generated.photos
100,000 AI-Generated Faces
· Explore our free resource of 100k high-quality faces, each entirely generated by AI. Use them in your projects, mockups, or wherever — all for just a link back to us! · Shared by 298, including Josep M. Ganyet, Steve Rayson, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Design Shack, Gary Thomas 🌐, Joan Lockwood, Mike Ivars, Ines Bieler, Paolo Pedercini 🥶, Nils Hitze, Fabricio Teixeira, Mike Taylor, Clive Thompson, Christopher Lauer™, Mike Davidson, Jess 🇺🇦, Chris Messina, Troy Hunt, Mohamed Azazy, THAT @REM SHOW
societycentered.design
Society Centered Design
2 min · · Human-centered design is not enough. We must look past the individual to society itself. We must design for the collective. Society centered design. · Shared by 290, including Kim Schläpfer, 瑞拿頭, Tom Connor, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Joanna J Bryson, Alexandra Wong, Neil Hart 💙, Matt, Casey Smith, Gregor B. Rosenauer, Tauno, Ruben Feurer, Oscar MacDonald, Jansnet
The Gradient
An Epidemic of AI Misinformation
11+ min · · Maybe every paper abstract should have a mandatory field of what the limitations of the proposed approach are. That way some of the science miscommunications and hypes could maybe be avoided.—… · Shared by 277, including Josep M. Ganyet, Evan Selinger, Luca Hammer, Mayhem, Just Mayhem., Claudia Sommer, Gengo 🦁, AGI.Eth | MTL.Eth, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Yves Mulkers, ...und meine Frau ist auch Elon Musk!, John Maeda, Dr Catherine Breslin, Gary Marcus, Thomas Power, hardmaru, Matthias Lampe, Nige Roberts-Willson, Prof. Anima Anandkumar, Moritz Stefaner
The New Yorker
Tomorrow’s Advance Man
· The venture capitalist Marc Andreessen plans “what will happen in the next ten, twenty, thirty years,” as if he were glancing at his Google calendar. · Shared by 263, including Liza Sperling, Eckart Burgwedel, Elia Palme, Leonid Bugaev, Adrian🇨🇭, David Smooke, John Battelle, Tyler Rooney, Clemens, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, Luzius Meisser, Anthony Hamelle, Ilia Markov, Graham Marshall, Rob Leavitt, Florian Jungnikl-Gossy 🦋, Adriano Latorre, Dominik Grolimund, Nico Luchsinger, Marcus Kuhn
Marker by Medium
Creativity Is the New Productivity
11+ min · · In the age of A.I. and machine learning, just being more productive won’t cut it. The future belongs to the creatives. · Shared by 260, including Dominik Grolimund, scott belsky, Bertrand Maltaverne, Glyn Britton, Maurizio Tondolo, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Oliver Gassner https://mastodon.social/@oliverg, Scott Brinker, Gerrit Eicker, Ward Plunet, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Philipp Laurim, Katja Evertz, Niklaus Gerber, Mike Troiano
figmadesign
Design critiques at Figma
8 min · · Learn 6 unique methods for design critique used by the Figma design team, along with some tips and best practices for running them effectively. · Shared by 251, including Alex 🌚, Veerle Pieters, David Hellmann, @grzewap@mastodon.social, Dominik Grolimund, zeldman, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Bernhard Huessy, designshard, David Travis, Andreia Costa 🇵🇹, Christina
Forge
Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting*
10 min · · You are not crazy, my friends · Shared by 237, including chuckhemann, 💥 Katie Martell, justin caouette, Kate Manne, TaylorLorenz.Substack.com, Mark Kaigwa, Scott Monty, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, Guy Kawasaki, Steve Portigal 🇨🇦🇺🇸, Mari Smith, zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, A World to Travel ✈, Daniel Elizalde, Howard Getson, Randy Deutsch, Carla Gentry 🎶, Matthias Lampe, Helen De Cruz, Tiffany Shlain
The New York Times
I Invented the World Wide Web. Here’s How We Can Fix It.
4 min · · I wanted the web to serve humanity. It’s not too late to live up to that promise. · Shared by 234, including Steve Faktor, mdy, Matthias Lampe, luis antónio santos, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Edward Tufte, Pablo Felip, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Bill Slawski ⚓ 🇺🇦, Xose Alberte Cea, davidabrock, Anita Leirfall, Tiffany Shlain
and.co
Remote Work & Digital Nomads Study 2018
4 min · · Remote work is becoming popular. This study shares the insights about the trend of digital nomads and remote working with data from thousands of people who live this trend today. · Shared by 230, including Cyrill Schmid, Connecticut SEO, Roberto Castro, Fabricio Teixeira, Oliver Ewinger, Liliane Ferrari ™, Laurie Wang, luis antónio santos, Antonio Vieira Santos, James Young, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Niklaus Gerber, Mohamed Azazy, Stephanie A Kowalski, David Hellmann, Dominik Grolimund, Erika VanDerBent ☺︎, Inês Silva, Thomas Pleil, Kevan Lee 👋