Matthew Irvine Brown » Little Printer "New British Modern". Or, put another way: a great many of my favourite things rolled up into one. I recently wrapped up a (completely unrelated, absolutely nothing to do with technology) project that was drawing on a similar aesthetic, and reading this has got me thinking about how I'd put a similar set of notes together for a moodboard/design manual for the next one.
Programming Sucks If you ever wonder what it is I do all day (and I don't blame you, a lot of the time I wonder the same thing), then I suggest you read this. It is pretty much the most perfect encapsulation of my daily working life I have ever encountered, and, I should point out, has been true everywhere I have worked. Warning: after read this, you may never wish to use the internet again.
Another Way To Breathe – WicDiv Playlist: Alice Kieron on The Sisters of Mercy, their place in his life (a very similar one to mine, and a lot of other people, I suspect), and their place in his upcoming work. Well worth a read.
The ComiXology Outrage Marco Arment on Gerry Conway on Comixology and Amazon. Specifically, he's making the point while Conway is correct to blame for the changes, the changes are nevertheless simply Amazon doing what it always does, and the Comixology were irresponsible in selling out a behemoth with a proven track record of being bad for publishers and independent creators.
Sheikh Nasr – Elephant painting an elephant. I am not 100% sure what I'm looking at here. As in: it is obvious that an elephant has just painted a picture of an elephant at least as well as I could. I'm wary of ascribing particular intentionality to that. That is to say I don't think it's done that because that's what it wants to paint, I think it has been trained to produce that specific painting. Which does not make it less impressive, or the elephant less majestic or intelligent, but I would like to be more sure of how the ethically the elephant was trained. But however it was trained, I think the lesson here is: Elephants are awesome, and we should leave them alone to get on with their own Elephant Business, instead of fucking up their habitats, domesticating them, and generally messing them about.
How to drink all night without getting drunk I might actually have to give this a go at some point, just to see if it's true. Although five or six teaspoons of yeast seems like an awful lot to consume at one sitting – surely that can't be good for you? Mind you, neither's beer, really…
The Heartbleed Hit List: The Passwords You Need to Change Right Now Here's a bare-minimum list of the passwords you should change in the wake of the heartbleed bug. If you have an account on any of these sites, and don't change your password in the near future, you're leaving leaving yourself unnecessarily unprotected. It's an annoying faff, I know (I've just spent the last hour doing it.), but it needs doing. And a semi-regular reminder: you should be using a password manager. No 2 sites you log in to should have the same password, and no password you have should be less that about 20 random numbers and letters. Basically, if you can remember it and type it yourself, your password is probably not secure enough.
