Yihui

If you constantly feed yourself gossip, you become suspicious. If you feed yourself beauty, you grow more sensitive to it. Attention is the mouth of being, and what you choose to focus on forms the diet of your becoming. It’s not a coincidence that taste is the only bodily sense that has been adapted to mean preferences: the way your attention... See more

my job is to sort through the noise. We live in an attention economy, and my job is to process the stimuli, to categorize what is worth devoting time, thought, and perhaps money to. Isn’t it crazy, at the end of the day, when you think about it? There is so much stuff , and I’ve declared it my duty to rummage through it. That’s the importance of... See more

Enthusiasm for HTML Day has grown year after year, especially recently as people look for alternatives to current social media platforms and are more open to experimentation, Cost added.

He also hopes HTML Energy can continue as an educational initiative. “I feel like HTML Energy could really be this focused movement on web literacy in terms of how... See more

“inconvenience is the cost of community” I repeat to myself as I climb 6 flights of stairs for my friends birthday party for her cat

Playful software that let people experiment with their own spaces and forms of expression are a precondition to a more enlivening internet. It must begin organically from the many and not dictated by the few.

It is a cruel and fundamentally inhuman tragedy that the culture has convinced so many of us that we must be healed in isolation, because being surrounded by people — people who love us, or care for us, or are willing to sit in the same room with us while we clean up our messes — is about the only way that I, for one, have ever been able to get... See more

If ever we feel a lack of community, I want us to take a step back before rushing to the internet to solve it. We shouldn’t rely on brands or strangers online to create community for us. Instead, let’s recognize and appreciate the ways community already shows up in our everyday lives — and reflect on how we can nurture it and continue caring for... See more