My Frantic Life as a Cab-Dodging, Tip-Chasing Food App Deliveryman
Mindless as the job may seem, it is often like a game of real-life speed chess played across the treacherous grid of the city, as riders juggle orders from competing apps and scramble for elusive bonuses.
When faced with making a product decision that is even mildly uncomfortable, employees often first look towards expressed company principles like “Always put the customer first”, but the next thing they look for is precedent.
There’s not much you can’t do with Bash.
I use the jetpack-markdown WordPress plugin to write my weblog posts in Markdown. Although jetpack-markdown is no longer maintained, it was still available to download using wp-cli. Whilst doing some maintenance on reyhan.org, I discovered this is no longer the case1:
wp plugin install jetpack-markdown --activate
Warning: jetpack-markdown: Plugin not found.
Error: No plugins installed.
With little inclination to research a replacement, I went looking for the source code and was thankful that it’s still online. In addition, the latest version still seems to be available to download2:
wp plugin install https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/jetpack-markdown.3.9.6.zip
Downloading installation package from https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/jetpack-markdown.3.9.6.zip...
Unpacking the package...
Installing the plugin...
Plugin installed successfully.
Activating 'jetpack-markdown'...
Plugin 'jetpack-markdown' activated.
This plugin was closed on April 28, 2019 and is no longer available for download.↩
Ambient privacy is not a property of people, or of their data, but of the world around us. Just like you can’t drop out of the oil economy by refusing to drive a car, you can’t opt out of the surveillance economy by forswearing technology (and for many people, that choice is not an option). While there may be worthy reasons to take your life off the grid, the infrastructure will go up around you whether you use it or not.
Tokyo became a megacity by reinventing itself
Walk through Japan’s energetic urban heart and see a vibrant, creative culture that bounced back from war and natural disaster.
The Clever Cryptography Behind Apple’s ‘Find My’ Feature
In upcoming versions of iOS and macOS, the new Find My feature will broadcast Bluetooth signals from Apple devices even when they’re offline, allowing nearby Apple devices to relay their location to the cloud.
I thought this feature was one of the more interesting things Apple announced this week.
Tweet your DNS queries to me and I’ll resolve them with 1.1.1.1! A and AAAA only.
It’s a small picture frame with a black, white, and red e-paper display. Accent is battery-powered and connects to Wifi, but only changes a few times each day.
Charming widget — and constraints are good for design.
★★☆☆☆
What if we could replace the process of designing UIs with, well, bots? What if you could have an infinite amount of UI designs to choose from — would that lead to new directions that you wouldn’t otherwise explore?
Uibot is an experiment on how far one could automate the generation of visual designs, what kinds of advantages it would lead to and what issues one would face.
The Immortal Legacy of Seba “Nujabes” Jun
Jun was a record shop owner and producer, though most know him for the latter.
Just realised Twitter has added support for security keys as a form of two-factor authentication — seems a bit janky but it works.
The Invisible City Beneath Paris
Under the southern portion of the city exists its negative image: a network of more than two hundred miles of galleries, rooms, and chambers.
Hooray!
If somebody sends you an email without popping your secret word in the subject or message then it’ll automagically be sent to Trash. Feel free to rotate your secret word every so often.
Hello. We made a brand new handheld gaming system.
It’s yellow. It fits in your pocket. It’s got a beautiful black and white screen. It’s not super cheap, but not super expensive. It includes brand new games from some amazing creators. Plus it has a crank.
Yeah, go on then.
After the last ee
had uzzed its last uzz,the irds and the utterflies
did what they could.ut soon the fields lay are,
few flowers were left,nature was roken,
and the planet ereft.