suggested reads for April 18, 2021

• Scaling down: on seeking fewer goals, relationships, and experiences
• The pandemic forced a massive remote-work experiment. Now comes the hard part
• Improvisation Takes Practice — by Pier Vittorio Mannucci, Davide C. Orazi, and Kristine de Valck on the Harvard Business Review;
• Guide for designing better mobile apps with typography
• 20 Best Noise Canceling Apps for Mobile and Desktop (March 2021)

suggested reads for April 4, 2021

• NAS 101: A Buyer’s Guide to the Features and Capacity You Need
• Against Performative Positivity — “Designer, researcher and educator Danah Abdulla on consumer capitalism, complacent convenience, political ‘wokeness’, and why we should all become design dissenters.”
• What We Learned From Apple’s New Privacy Labels — take your time to read it;

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It’s the second time we have to “celebrate” the Easter – physically – away from our families and friends. Anyway I do hope you all are ok, that you and your beloved ones are OK and are suffering in the least possible way this pandemic.

suggested reads for March 28, 2021

• Internet Occultists Are Trying to Change Reality With a Magickal Algorithm — e mi sono subito sentito parte del mondo degli Invisibili;
• A Cyber Threat Intelligence Self-Study Plan: Part 1
• Thoughts on newsletters
• NAS Collaboration Guide: How to Configure Shared Storage Between Locations — a guide by BackBlaze;

suggested reads for March 21, 2021

• This browser extension shows what the Internet would look like without Big Tech
• How to Defeat a Boston Dynamics Robot in Mortal Combat — if Boston Dynamics videos scare the hello out of you (like it happens in this famous video by Chemical Brothersthis post is for you!

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Just two articles this sunday. I had a bunch of other ones, but in Italian so… In the meanwhile the pandemic is rampant here in Italy and in my hometown (over 66.000 people) we have 400+ people infected. During the first wave we had 0. A friend of mine is going through a nightmare with his in-laws dead in less than 10 days and his brother-in-law going under an ECMO threatment… let’s hope for the better! 🙏🏻

suggested reads for March 14, 2021

• We asked five menstruation apps for our data and here is what we found… — "We asked five menstruation apps to give us access to our data. We got a dizzying dive into the most intimate information about us”;
• Scientists Write ‘Hello World’ in Bacterial DNA With Electricity and CRISPR
• How SEO Is Gentrifying the Internet
• Here’s a Way to Learn if Facial Recognition Systems Used Your Photos — An online tool targets only a small slice of what’s out there, but may open some eyes to how widely artificial intelligence research fed on personal images;
• Why you should care about data privacy even if you have “nothing to hide” — Yes, your data is used to sell you shoes. But it also may be used to sell you an ideology.

suggested reads for March 7, 2021

• Signal, the secure messaging app: A guide for beginners
• A Personal Digital Reset — Anil Dash: “ Even the most well-intentioned creators of tech don’t know how their work fits into your life. And that’s not to mention the techies who aren’t well-intentioned.”
• Facebook’s Misleading Campaign Against Apple’s Privacy Policy
• Running a Successful Membership / Subscription Program — an essay by Craig Mod;

suggested reads for February 21, 2021

• Tech Companies Are Profiling Us From Before Birth — la medaglia ha sempre due lati…
• Your most impactful Web Vital — “Google is about to begin using Core Web Vitals as a ranking factor. So here’s a friendly reminder for everyone that network payload a.k.a. page weight a.k.a. page size is the most impactful metric on your Lighthouse report – even if it’s not deemed a Core Web Vital by Google.”
• How To Stop Instagram From Tracking Everything You Do — a Wired article on how the Facebook-owned app doesn’t give users complete control, but shows ways to limit the data it collects and the types of ads you see;

suggested reads for February 14, 2021

• We Don’t Need Data Scientists, We Need Data Engineers
• Former Apple engineer details how the magic of M1 Mac performance began 10 years ago
• This is what the office will look like in 2022
• The Lost Art of Cassette Design: 1980s