Our pilot run of six shows will cover everything Panic. (Which is a lot.)
This is a great podcast.
Apple needs to recognize they have made profound conceptual mistakes in the iPad user interface, mistakes that need to be scrapped and replaced, not polished and refined. I worry that iPadOS 13 suggests the opposite — that Apple is steering the iPad full speed ahead down a blind alley.
I’ve been using iPadOS since launch and found learning multitasking a clunky and dark art indeed.
But there’s also a great deal of freedom in realizing, as an individual, that whatever you’re doing on the internet is primarily valuable because you are doing it. Once it’s done, that value declines rapidly. Let it be regulated to memory…Where it can become less like a ledger and more like a dream.
Jason Sutter on Jeff Huang’s This Page is Designed to Last: A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web.
The simple joy of f***ing up in the kitchen
I had a notion the other day. This happens from time to time — I get something into my head, and I just have to see it through, whether it’s a good idea or not.
I had a notion about making soup dumplings.
/via jk
Put bacon on everything.
The Basecamp Guide to Internal Communication
The how, where, why, and when we communicate. Long form asynchronous? Real-time chat? In-person? Video? Verbal? Written? Via email? In Basecamp? How do we keep everyone in the loop without everyone getting tangled in everyone else’s business? It’s all in here.
Cracking read.
I didn’t want to fly – so I took a cargo ship from Germany to Canada
Sustainable travel within Europe often involves trading a plane for a train, but getting to Canada from Europe is more complex. A cargo ship became the obvious low-carbon choice.
We started Grimgrains to teach ourselves how to cook. This blog, which now doubles as a travel diary, helps track our habits as we adapt to the localy available produce.
The illustrations are 😙👌
/thx Lord Will
A Twitter client that just lets you post Twitter updates and direct messages — no timeline!
Also, that day/night toggle on the Twizzle website is sublime.
/via @craigmod
Systems, Mistakes, and the Sea
I’ve found this article to be food for thought, especially this passage:
My hunch is this: folks can’t talk about real design systems problems because it will show their company as being dysfunctional and broken in some way. This looks bad for their company and hence looks bad for them. But hiding those mistakes and shortcomings by glossing over everything doesn’t just make it harder for us personally, it hinders progress within the field itself.
/via Jeremy Keith
IKEA sell a portable induction hob.
This is a fun and nicely designed game.
I Walked 600 Miles Across Japan for Pizza Toast
One man’s journey to track down the origins of pizza toast led him to the traditional Japanese kissaten (cafes built around coffee sets and simple bread-y snacks)
How William Gibson’s long-lost Alien 3 script became 2019’s most intriguing audio drama
Audible Studios’ new audio drama Alien III by William Gibson offers one of those alternate paths for the Alien series. Gibson, the author of Neuromancer and Mona Lisa Overdrive, has his own vision of what happened after Ripley, Hicks, Bishop, and Newt nuked LV-426 from orbit in Aliens.
I’m listening to this at the moment — it’s very good.
Marcus Samuelsson: My life in five dishes
Award-winning chef, restaurateur and writer Marcus Samuelsson describes his extraordinary culinary and personal journey from one of the world’s poorest countries to Sweden and then to Harlem, New York.
I enjoyed listening to this.
iOS 13.2 Killing Background Apps More
Super annoying.
A real-time 3D digital map of Tokyo’s public transport system.
Love everything about this.
I quite enjoyed this documentary about Mark Ronson:
We follow Mark in London, Los Angeles and New York at work and at home. Mark tells us how he came into music, growing up in a musical family. We find out his musical influences and how he started as a hip hop DJ in New York in the early 90s. He discusses the projects that worked and the ones that didn’t.
Logs were our lifeblood. Now they’re our liability.
Logs are a funny thing: on the one hand, they’re enormously useful. On the other, because they grow exponentially by design and there’s never any less of them, and they seem to be everywhere, like crumbs that you just can’t get rid of.