gigatron.io
The Gigatron TTL microcomputer is a minimalistic retro computer. It’s special in its own oddball way, because it has absolutely no complex logic chips in it, not even a microprocessor! Its CPU is built out of a handful of classic 7400-series ICs, colloquially known as the TTL logic series.
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theatlantic.com
What the idealized iPhone user and the idealized Gmail user shared was a perfect executive-functioning system: Every time they picked up their phone or opened their web browser, they knew exactly what they wanted to do, got it done with a calm single-mindedness, and then closed their device. This dream illuminated Inbox Zero and Kinfolk and minimalist writing apps. It didn’t work. What we got instead was Inbox Infinity and the algorithmic timeline. Each of us became a wanderer in a sea of content. Each of us adopted the tacit—but still shameful—assumption that we are just treading water, that the clock is always running, and that the work will never end.
macwright.org
Don’t consider this a recommendation or best-practice: it’s what works, within the bounds of my increasingly-unpopular preferences.
github.com
🍃 A refreshing programming language for the front-end web.
startuphacks.vc
We all love tweets because they are short, but emails are not. What they are is stress. Counterintuitively though, the stress is NOT cause by sheer volume of emails. It is caused by chaotic way that we typically process them, and by the fact that new emails arrive while we are answering existing ones.
jimcollins.com
Because despite all those circumstances, I never ever wavered in my absolute faith that not only would I prevail—get out of this—but I would also prevail by turning it into the defining event of my life that would make me a stronger and better person. Not only that, Jim, you realize I’m the lucky one.”
I said, “No, I don’t.”
He said, “Yes, because I know the answer to how I would do, and you never will.”
github.com
Smithsonian Open Access Data Repository
bbc.com
A robot dog is patrolling one of Singapore’s parks as part of coronavirus-related trial.
The machine - made by US-based Boston Dynamics - is fitted with a camera to monitor how busy Bishan-Ang Moh Kio Park becomes.
It also carries a loudspeaker to broadcast social-distancing messages.
This seems completely safe.
manton.org
The only way to preserve something is to make multiple copies and distribute them. The problem with digital is that it makes it just as easy to accidentally delete or lose copies as it is to create them. Evolving file formats and storage devices require constant supervision and maintenance, pushing files up each technology bump from floppies to CDs to Zip disks to DVDs to hard drives. It never ends.
kottke.org
I wanted to start with the simplest possible thing and see if it sticks or goes anywhere.
One of the inspirations for my new links section.