Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
CTO and maker of linkitylink.lol
Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
CTO and maker of linkitylink.lol
a note from a believer:
Sari, I remember that as a kid, I always knew I was different, and wanted to show it. I’d tie my Converse shoelaces in the shape of a star, I’d zig when others zagged, I’d take pride in being Mexican in my mostly White North Carolina small town, and this all showed through in my work. I was Me. And somewhere along the way,
... See moreThe word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years. Only in the 1900s did we pluralise the term and start talking about priorities. Illogically, we reasoned that by changing the word we could bend reality. Somehow we would now be
... See moreKEKE is fascinating.
We're all going to die and Web Ex Point Oh
This is inspiring and while I wouldn’t put this on the open web (for security reasons), I think it’s a cool idea.
The idea of “file over app” is to care a lot more about your data itself than the app or platform it’s in. Like, the app you’re using now? Probably not going to be around in 50 years. Text files and JPGs and PDFs? Way more likely to still be here! So invest in formats that last, not apps that don’t.
While this is a Black Friday list, it also serves as a good gift guide. A lot of it isn’t really my style, but there are some good rabbit holes.