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Volumem 1<\/a> and Volume 2<\/a><\/p>\n

Sigh, here we are again. It\u2019s been 10 months and I\u2019ve been reading a lot and unfortunately didn\u2019t link to any of my favorite things. This is a reminder that I really need to carve out 30 minutes every day to write but I\u2019m constantly interrupted by people who require my time. Time is insanely valuable these days and I don\u2019t have a lot of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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  1. Christopher McQuarrie\u2019s advice to screenwriters<\/a> applies to all of us and while I bookmarked and wanted to link to this guy\u2019s Twitter thread on it. His thread no longer exists so he deleted it? Link Rot on a 1 month old array of Tweets? Sigh. I\u2019m linking to a blog that has screen shots of his text<\/li>\n
  2. Getting started with security keys<\/a> by Paul was timed perfectly as Lightning \/ USB – \u00a0C keys are now supported on iOS in Safari. Paul hit this one out of the park. His writing and blogs are something I seriously look forward to. He writes 2-3 times a year at most and is my favorite blogger right now.\u00a0<\/li>\n
  3. Catalina Vista<\/a> on Michael Tsai\u2019s blog makes me sad. I more importantly feel for all of the very talented Apple engineers who are suffering through a systematic failure of management to address issues, innovate and drive the desktop OS. \u201cNo new features\u201d for the next 3-4 years of MacOS would make me so happy. More:<\/li>\n
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    1. Catalina System Issues<\/a><\/li>\n
    2. Photoshop and macOS Catalina (10.15)<\/a><\/li>\n
    3. Lightroom Classic and macOS Catalina (10.15)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    4. The Planet Needs<\/a> a New Internet covers nearly every year we\u2019re suffering from today when it comes to the virtual connectivity in our world<\/li>\n
    5. Your Navigation App Is Making Traffic Unmanageable<\/a> is a dramatic narrative but has some truth to it. As someone who works on the inside of navigation, this does a nice job of summarizing to blight of real time traffic built by algorithms, not people.<\/li>\n
    6. Apple locked me out of its walled garden<\/a>. It was a nightmare is worth reading so you are aware of the issues of going all-in on one platform. Apple is by far the best for us but when it turns on you, be prepared to feel helpless for a few months.<\/li>\n
    7. Serendipity v algorithmy<\/a> by Patrick T on Kottke is a good summary of a lot of what I read this year. I focused a lot on pieces that highlight how AI is ruining us and this article also spoke to me because I use the word serendipity on a daily basis to explain the beauty of social networks and AI and algorithms but the reality is never that idealistic when you\u2019re building web applications at scale<\/li>\n
    8. Photographers, Instagrammers: Stop Being So D*mn Selfish and Disrespectful<\/a> is another bleak of our shitty present.<\/li>\n
    9. Is Your Journalism a Luxury or Necessity?<\/a> Good inside-baseball introspection on the world of news and free press. Journalists need to be paid but paywalls keep poor people from reading good reporting and news. Newspapers turn into class warfare where the poor people get fake news because they can\u2019t afford to pay for a newspaper.\u00a0<\/li>\n
    10. Revisiting the iconography of Apple Maps<\/a> was a nice walk through memory lane of Apple Maps since inception in 2012.<\/li>\n
    11. The Land Where the Internet Ends<\/a> had me Googling this place to figure out if I can visit there for a few days. There has to be a decade long study already happening that compares cancer and depression rates being lower in this area versus the rest of the world. Seriously, light and radio silence is better for us.\u00a0<\/li>\n
    12. OM Malik<\/a> has been on a roll this year. His writing is something I look forward to every day and I wonder where he finds the time:<\/li>\n
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      1. The Problem With \u201cContent\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n
      2. A Little Less Conversation<\/a><\/li>\n
      3. I\u2019ve Said it Before, And I\u2019ll Say It Again<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      4. A Technical and Cultural Assessment of the Mueller Report PDF<\/a> really awesome different take on a document almost everyone knows about but barely anyone actually read.\u00a0<\/li>\n
      5. Mark Zuckerberg leveraged Facebook user data to fight rivals and help friends, leaked documents show<\/a> was a report and leak that I\u2019m surprised didn\u2019t actually lead to anything changing for Facebook. It was business as usual a week later.<\/li>\n
      6. Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good<\/a> a bit too dystopian but it does highlight some real programs that would end up becoming everyone\u2019s reality in a few decades<\/li>\n
      7. Why there\u2019s so little left of the early internet<\/a> discusses mainstream link-rot and one thing lately is in Google\u2019s goal of always having fresh content and ensuring your search query on current events, sports and things like scandal means that they make thoughtful reports and news stories so de-prioritized that you have to use their search tools and specifically put 2002 only when searching for Iraq War data because the queries are about the now, not the yesterday. If you don\u2019t know what year something was published, you have to click back to page 20 to find it. It basically feeds the beast of link-rot.\u00a0<\/li>\n
      8. The case of the 500-mile email<\/a> was just a fun read\u00a0<\/li>\n
      9. Two Fundamental Things Wrong with Social Networks<\/a> – Nothing new here but well written<\/li>\n
      10. Lessons from 6 software rewrite stories<\/a> – great lessons on Medium which probably won\u2019t exist in 10 years and this link will probably be gone forever. I hope the author held on to the text to post elsewhere when Medium goes away<\/li>\n
      11. Young people still love Twitter \u2014 as screenshots on Instagram<\/a> I actually thought of this last night when going out with some friends of my GF. Heather mentioned that I don\u2019t mind gossip as I have no one to tell it to implying I don\u2019t really have a big social circle (true) but my response was, \u201cYeah I don\u2019t even have a Twitter account\u201d. Saying that in 2019 I guess was a joke but I didn\u2019t intend it to be. I wasn\u2019t joking but they laughed anyway. Oh well, but as someone who frequents reddit, I can attest that this is reality.\u00a0<\/li>\n
      12. Hanoi by Anthony Bourdain (on Medium)<\/a> was a great read and the first thing I read after hearing of Bourdain\u2019s passing. This continues to be my favorite episode in Bourdain\u2019s catalogue. I try to watch it every few years.<\/li>\n
      13. Apple killed fun<\/a> is now 1.5 years old but is still true today. Where are the colors? The Whimsy? The fun?<\/li>\n
      14. In Newark, Police Cameras, and the Internet, Watch You<\/a> – AdamsBlock was too early and would have done well if launched today<\/li>\n
      15. Computer latency.<\/a> I LOVED finding this via another blog. Our phones are thousands of times faster than our computers in the 90s but things don\u2019t actually happen any faster. Software latency is a metric we need to track when building applications.<\/li>\n
      16. Text-only news sites are slowly making a comeback. Here\u2019s why<\/a>. – June of 2017 is the publish date. Unfortuatnely this awesomely optimistic future hasn\u2019t really happened outside of independent bloggers like me who still have lightweight sites.\u00a0<\/li>\n
      17. Tech is upending the ways we write, speak, and even think<\/a><\/li>\n
      18. Why I (Still) Love Tech: In Defense of a Difficult Industry<\/a> starts with \u201cNerds, we did it\u201d I was hooked from that line.<\/li>\n
      19. The Theory of Visitors<\/a> Loved this particularly this bit below. I aimed to write more about this at length but never found the time.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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        \u201cAll relationships are transient,\u201d she said. \u201cFriends who stab you in the back. People you network with at a fancy party. Relatives who die. The love of your life. Everything is temporary. People come into your life for a limited amount of time, and then they go away. So you welcome their arrival, and you surrender to their departure. Because they are all visitors. And when the visitors go home, they might take something from you. Something that you can\u2019t ever get back. And that part sucks. But visitors always leave souvenirs. And you get to keep those forever.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

        That\u2019s it for this year. It\u2019s a lot. Sorry I\u2019ll try to do better next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n