I’ve switched @Tweetbot for Mac to small thumbnails because my French timeline has been gruesome lately, and I can’t believe someone thought it was a good idea to have a distracting animation I’m not allowed to disable on every tweet that includes several images.
The Mandalorian is now more like watching your favorite streamer show you all the side quests in a Star Wars RPG than it is a TV show with plot & character development. [twitter.com]
Imagine traveling to the moon only to realize you’re allergic to it. One astronaut did. [popsci.com]
This towering metallic monolith was just discovered in a remote area of Utah [thisiscolossal.com]
WTF, Xcode doesn’t remember pane layout per tab anymore? They’ve removed the one thing that made the app manageable, where you could have the right-hand inspector pane only open in Interface Builder tabs, with the left-hand navigator closed to make up for lost space?
Finally got my Mail message list back to under one screen. I’d complain about Big Sur’s loss of information density but, to be fair, some of those emails were from a year ago.
Anyone who’s gone viral on here knows that, broadly… it sucks. It renders the platform unusable, opens you up to abuse and harassment, and has barely any upside. Snap’s deal is basically “lose the downside, and take the upside in cash rather than followers”
Je viens de découvrir que la trachée des #cétacés, directement reliée à leur #évent, n’avait pas de connexion à leur œsophage, les empêchant de fait de respirer par la bouche… 🤔
The Catalyst Messages app has a couple of tiny non-standard keyboard behaviors (such as shift-up not working) and I will probably end up in a psych ward before the year is over.
DJs without music 2 [youtube.com] (poke @jellyhe4d)
Not a ‘math person’? You may be better at learning to code than you think. A recent research found that a natural aptitude for learning languages is a stronger predictor of learning to program than basic math knowledge, or numeracy [read more: [buff.ly]]
Deux journalistes allemands jettent un regard critique sur la gestion du Covid en France et notamment l’attestation de déplacement qui est « l’essence même de l’autoritarisme français. Infantilisante, humiliante » (sur @arretsurimages) [arretsurimages.net]
“We are giddy”—interviewing Apple about its Mac silicon revolution [arstechnica.com]
Typology of diaolou — multi-storey defensive watchtowers in rural Guangdong, China. Generally made of reinforced concrete, diaolou structures are one of the most spectacular and eclectic examples of fusion between Chinese and Western architecture
I mostly quite like the way Big Sur looks. But I hate the loss of information density. But I like how it looks. But… 😖
