Platformer
What I learned from a year on Substack
14+ min · · Your questions about Platformer, answered · Shared by 301, including Jay Rosen, Craig Mod, Rick Klau, Casey Newton, Jane Friedman, Kainaz Amaria, Katja Evertz, Anne Helen Petersen, Mathew Ingram, Gergely Orosz, Matthew Turland, Franziska Bluhm 💥, Jonathan Kogan, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Florian Jungnikl-Gossy 🦋
The Markup
Journalistic Lessons for the Algorithmic Age
6 min · · A farewell letter from Julia Angwin · Shared by 175, including Brian Stelter, Stephanie A Kowalski, Lluís Codina, Jay Rosen, Andreas Von Gunten, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Marie-José Kolly, Clemens M. Schuster, Sisi Wei, felix salmon
Dribbble
Why consistent writing makes you a better designer
6 min · · Believe it or not, there are many similarities between writing and design. Read about the different ways writing can help you improve your skills as a designer in your career and get some tips for… · Shared by 175, including Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Rick Powell, Ines Bieler, Michael Musgrove, Niklaus Gerber, Katja Evertz, CSS Weekly, Tom Connor, Neil Hart 💙, Oscar MacDonald, Oliver Reichenstein
Lisa Charlotte Muth
Why We Don't Believe In Facts, And How To Fix That
10 min · · It's not about truth vs lie, it's about them vs us. Plus some data vis that made me think. · Shared by 115, including Rick Powell, Marius Bleuer, Stefan Diepolder, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social
Jason Fried
What's in a Heartbeat?
2 min · · We're famous for having very few meetings at Basecamp. We generally think meetings are toxic. Yet, meetings do convey information, and we need to convey information, so what's our replacement?… · Shared by 104, including Patrick Sanwikarja, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social
slab.com
How Jeff Bezos Turned Narrative into Amazon's Competitive Advantage
9 min · · For the first piece in our series How CEOs Write , we talked about how Tesla's missteps and failures can be traced back to three critical… · Shared by 80, including Josh Elman, string 🇦🇺🍗, Jeff Atwood, Taylor Pearson, hiten.eth, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Scott Berkun, Oscar MacDonald, Colin Jones
Brain Pickings
John McPhee on Artistic Originality and Self-Doubt
5 min · · “Never stop battling for the survival of your own unique stamp.” · Shared by 64, including Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Joanna (J.F.) Penn, Doug Sundheim, Charles Duhigg, Stephanie A Kowalski, Tim Washer
Zapier
The 10 Best Feed Reader Apps for RSS, News, and More
15+ min · · The internet is overloaded with content. Even if you only set out to read the most important articles and watch the top videos, you'll never get done.
Just staying up-to-date and informed is a challenge. You have news to read, blogs to check, and YouTube hits you've got... · Shared by 56, including Mike Taylor, Harold Jarche, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Matthew Guay, Brian Solis
The Guardian
When Milton met Shakespeare: poet's notes on Bard appear to have been found
4 min · · Hailed as one of the most significant archival discoveries of modern times, text seems to show the Paradise Lost poet making careful annotations on his edition of Shakespeare’s plays · Shared by 53, including Dr Jordan B Peterson, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Thomas Power, Esther Schindler, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, @spite.vc on bluesky, Anita Leirfall, Gregg Caruso, Jane
readme.so
readme.so - Easiest Way to Create A README
· Use readme.so's markdown editor and ready made templates to easily create a simple README for your repositories · Shared by 51, including Brian Rinaldi, Scott Hanselman 🌮, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Ahrbil, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Replit ⠕
A List Apart
What Really Matters: Focusing on Top Tasks
10 min · · Every piece of web content is important—or so every stakeholder insists. But what happens when dozens, even hundreds, of different tasks battle for space on your homepage and in your navigation? It’s time to make some hard choices about what does and doesn’t belong. Gerry McGovern demonstrates how to zero in on the tasks that matter most to your users. · Shared by 51, including Andreas Bossard, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Jay West, Niklaus Gerber, Oscar MacDonald
cryptpad.fr
Zero Knowledge, Collaborative Real Time Editing
1 min · · OOPS In order to do encryption in your browser, Javascript is really really required. OUPS Afin de pouvoir réaliser le chiffrement dans votre navigateur, Javascript est vraiment nécessaire. · Shared by 46, including Tristan Nitot - nitot chez framapiaf point org, Luca Hammer, Kenneth Kalmer, Axel Wolpert, Wojciech Piekutowski, Matt, Marko Saric, Ines Bieler, Samuel Hauser, Dominik Chanton, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social
The Washington Post
Here’s who helped Elon Musk buy Twitter
· Elon Musk didn't buy Twitter on his own. From Qatar to Jack Dorsey and Binance, meet the people who helped fund the acquisition. · Shared by 37, including Philanthropy News Digest, Matt Navarra, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
WIRED
Edward Snowden in His Own Words: Why I Became a Whistle-Blower
3 min · · Book excerpt: As a systems administrator, the young man who would expose vast, secret US surveillance saw freedom being encroached and decided he had to act. · Shared by 36, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Katja Evertz, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social
Reforge
Reforge Growth Series — Reforge
18+ min · · The Growth Series BUILT BY LEADERS FROM HUBSPOT, UBER, AND MORE. BUILT FOR TOP PERFORMERS AT LEADING COMPANIES Applications are now closed. Get notified when Spring 2019 applications open. Get… · Shared by 35, including Lenny Rachitsky, Malik El Bay 🕊🔰🇲🇦, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Brian Balfour, Tyler Rooney, Christoph Janz 🇺🇦🎗🕊, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷
habitatchronicles.com
You can't tell people anything
8 min · · This is sort of Morningstar’s version of Murphy’s Law. When we were assembling our catalog of the things we had learned over the past decade and a half in this business, we almost didn’t include this… · Shared by 34, including René Pfitzner, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Bryan Onel, Harpreet Singh, 瑞拿頭, Mark Tabladillo PhD