“After receiving a recommendation from the boards of the FDIC and the Federal Reserve, and consulting with the President, Secretary Yellen approved actions enabling the FDIC to complete its resolution of Silicon Valley Bank, Santa Clara, California, in a manner that fully protects all depositors.”

This would’ve been really great to have when I lived in New York.

“Be My Eyes connects people needing sighted support with volunteers and companies through live video around the world.”

https://nathan.torkington.com/blog/feed/

A new type foundry from Dan Cederholm.

Good article about why content moderation is necessary for a business like Twitter, and why protecting free speech is about challenging laws that restrict it.

This is a wonderful analysis of xmas.c, the 1988 winner of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest by Landon Curt Noll and Larry Bassel. Incredibly, it outputs the entire Twelve Days of Christmas and is smaller in size than its compressed output.

A rich collection of file conversion tools. PNG to SVG, MOV to GIF, URL to PNG, etc.

“The metaphors we use to describe new technology constrain how we think about it, and, like an out-of-date map, often lead us astray. So it is with the metaverse.”

Interactive tool for comparing images from the James Webb Space Telescope to those from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Interesting tool for reading faster by emphasizing the first few letters of each word with a heavier weight. It works surprisingly well.

“But part of the reason the Supreme Court’s typog­raphy works so well is because it visu­ally connects an opinion to a centuries-long tradi­tion of delib­er­a­tive thought. When that typog­raphy is applied to a draft opinion, it gives the ideas therein a grav­itas and authority they haven’t yet earned.”

The most comprehensive breakdown of how a mechanical watch works that I could ever imagine, complete with interactive elements to enhance comprehension. Simply remarkable work by Bartosz Ciechanowski.

Mike Davidson writes about Elon Musk potentially taking over Twitter and what that could mean. “Things are never as good or as bad as they say.”

Robin Sloan provides an assortment of thoughts about Elon Musk buying Twitter.

“Make your own website and join the conversation!”

A StoryMap about the NCAR Fire from Boulder Fire-Rescue.

Robin Sloan writes about Web3.

“A handy tool to help make your case when whining about a biannual time change, following earlier explorations of the geography of DST effects.”

Another blog post stating the obvious.

A daily word game that everyone is playing. It’s great.

Tim O’Reilly finally writes about Web3, and it’s excellent.

“By cosplaying conspiracy theorists, they have found community and kinship.”

This is a great analysis of the massive Facebook outage that covers BGP, autonomous systems, DNS, etc.

“Garland thought it would be an easy fix. She asked each student where they’d saved their project. Could they be on the desktop? Perhaps in the shared drive? But over and over, she was met with confusion. ‘What are you talking about?’ multiple students inquired. Not only did they not know where their files were saved—they didn’t understand the question.”

“The show about making a life while also making a living.”

“Just as Blackberry dismissed the iPhone, Toyota dismissed Tesla and EVs. Blackberry thought the world would need physical keyboards for many more years. Toyota thought the world would need gasoline for several more decades. Both were wrong.”

Pretty good summary of the final, and the entire tournament, detailing what it was like to experience it.

Nifty tool that cleans up content to make it more readable. Reminds me of Instapaper, but even simpler to use.

Fantastic blog post from Tim O’Reilly. “Rich and poor are actually living in two different economies, which operate by different rules. Most ordinary people live in a world where a dollar is a dollar.”

“Plus Equals is a quarterly zine in which Rob Weychert explores algorithmic art with a focus on combinatorics.”

Really interesting map visualization. “Click to drop a raindrop anywhere in the contiguous United States and watch where it ends up.”

Interesting article in The New Yorker about the Dyatlov Pass mystery.

Jason Aten digs into Signal’s recent announcement—that Facebook rejected its ads that show how much Facebook knows about you—and discovers that it was a lie.

This looks interesting. “Readwise makes it easy to revisit and learn from your ebook and article highlights.”

“The company’s senior leadership wanted to quell employees’ concerns, and only made things much, much worse.”

Casey Newton digs into the Basecamp controversy and provides more background and context.

Jane Yang shares some of the missing backstory of Basecamp’s surprising company changes that include a ban on political conversation.

To help protect your users who use Chrome, you can send a Permissions-Policy header to disable FLoC.

“The third-party cookie is dying, and Google is trying to create its replacement.”

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s final letter to shareholders.

Andy Budd details his setup for video conferencing, which is very well done.

“StopTheMadness is a web browser extension for macOS that stops web sites from making your browser harder to use.”

A simple API for website screenshots that offers a free tier for up to 100 screenshots per month.

“The dreaded chore of putting a comforter inside a duvet cover is now as easy as rolling up a burrito. Here’s a step-by-step tutorial that will change your life.”

In a surprising revelation, sugary vegetable oil isn’t that good for you.

“There was a time when owning digital space seemed thrilling, and our personal sites motivated us to express ourselves. There are signs of a resurgence, but too few wish to make their digital house a home.”

In case you need yet another reason to use a better browser. “Google Chrome installs something called Keystone on your computer that nefariously hides itself from Activity Monitor and makes your whole computer slow even when Chrome isn’t running.”

Sean Coates wrote an article for the Web Performance Calendar that explains a caching technique we use extensively to make our websites fast.

“A year of scientific uncertainty is over. Two vaccines look like they will work, and more should follow.”