Essere un hacker: ha preso l'orologio a parete della nonna, l'ha smontato e poi l'ha ricostruito virtualmente con WebGL per spiegare come funziona un orologio: essenziale ma molto bello!
https://clock.leshenko.net
https://clock.leshenko.net
AAA programmatore cercasi
Oreste, lettore di Mostly, mi scrive che cerca un programmatore (è previsto ovviamente che venga pagato) per un lavoro da freelance: sistemare l'applicativo web per la sua associazione Uil Scuola. Ci sono le specifiche, le cose da fare, un certo periodo di manutenzione prevista dal contratto. Se volete cimentarvi, contattatelo su Telegram come: @oreste_uilcremona
Oreste, lettore di Mostly, mi scrive che cerca un programmatore (è previsto ovviamente che venga pagato) per un lavoro da freelance: sistemare l'applicativo web per la sua associazione Uil Scuola. Ci sono le specifiche, le cose da fare, un certo periodo di manutenzione prevista dal contratto. Se volete cimentarvi, contattatelo su Telegram come: @oreste_uilcremona
Molte aquile ho visto in volo - il mio articolo per Anobii
https://blog.anobii.com/it/2020/11/06/molte-aquile-ho-visto-in-volo/
https://blog.anobii.com/it/2020/11/06/molte-aquile-ho-visto-in-volo/
Anobii Blog
Molte aquile ho visto in volo - Anobii Blog
Il libro di Filippo Nassetti racconta le storie di piloti di linea e molto più. Ecco le storie di chi lavora in cabina di pilotaggio, commuoventi e uniche, come gli uomini e le donne che le impersonano
Buon sabato a tutti. Sto preparando la newsletter Mostly Weekly. Mi capita di citare la versione "vimmificata" di Workflowy, il software per l'organizzazione testuale (è un outliner semplice e potente) che uso da anni per tutti i miei progetti. È freemium e se girate il link alle persone che si iscrivono per provarlo, abbiamo tutti più spazio gratuito (come i referral di Gmail, ricordate). Vivamente consigliato.
Money quote: "Give your friends free WorkFlowy space. They'll each get 250 free items. For each that joins, you'll also get 250 extra monthly items."
Il mio referral: https://workflowy.com/invite/28da0735.lnx
Money quote: "Give your friends free WorkFlowy space. They'll each get 250 free items. For each that joins, you'll also get 250 extra monthly items."
Il mio referral: https://workflowy.com/invite/28da0735.lnx
Workflowy
A simpler way to organize your work - Workflowy
If you have a crazy job or an ambitious project, we will be your trusty sidekick. Workflowy is a simpler way to stay organized.
Tra le cose strane che si possono vedere nelle strade di una grande città come, ad esempio, New York, c'è questo tipo che all'alba va a far pratica di lanci per la pesca con la mosca (in inglese "fly fishing").
Money quote: "I’ve been practicing this peculiar ritual for years. Some time ago, I was looking to shake off the rust and get my arm in shape to prepare for an upcoming fishing trip to Wyoming, but living where I do, I didn’t have a suitable place to do so. Or I thought I didn’t, anyway. But then it occurred to me that a city street — long, straight and, in my case, relatively free of traffic — is actually quite suitable. Pretty great, even. Peculiar is in the eye of the beholder.
This year, street-casting has taken on a new urgency. I typically fish 20 or so days a year, everywhere from the Catskills to the Bahamas, but because of Covid-19, I haven’t managed to get out on the water at all. And yet, like many of us these days, I’m desperate to find pockets of joy wherever I can. Some people bake bread; others do jigsaw puzzles. I cast a fly rod on West 12th Street. For now, it’s not a way for me to prepare for a trip — it is the trip."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/magazine/fly-casting-on-city-streets-is-weird-thats-why-i-love-it.html
Money quote: "I’ve been practicing this peculiar ritual for years. Some time ago, I was looking to shake off the rust and get my arm in shape to prepare for an upcoming fishing trip to Wyoming, but living where I do, I didn’t have a suitable place to do so. Or I thought I didn’t, anyway. But then it occurred to me that a city street — long, straight and, in my case, relatively free of traffic — is actually quite suitable. Pretty great, even. Peculiar is in the eye of the beholder.
This year, street-casting has taken on a new urgency. I typically fish 20 or so days a year, everywhere from the Catskills to the Bahamas, but because of Covid-19, I haven’t managed to get out on the water at all. And yet, like many of us these days, I’m desperate to find pockets of joy wherever I can. Some people bake bread; others do jigsaw puzzles. I cast a fly rod on West 12th Street. For now, it’s not a way for me to prepare for a trip — it is the trip."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/magazine/fly-casting-on-city-streets-is-weird-thats-why-i-love-it.html
NY Times
Fly Casting on City Streets Is Weird. That’s Why I Love It.
I’m desperate to find pockets of joy wherever I can. Some people bake bread. I started street-casting on West 12th.
La mia tastiera ideale è stata presentata cinque anni fa, l'ho comprata immediatamente (amore a prima vista) ma ancora non è pronta. Non sto a dirvi lo stillicidio: arriva, non arriva, arriva. Senza contare poi il forum, nel quale per anni si sono scatenate migliaia di persone. Perché la tastiera è una vera sensazione, o almeno: presunta tale.
Adesso, uno dei beta tester (TREG, nel lingo di Waytools) ha postato una cosa di un'ora e mezzo di recensione. Diciamo che lui non è uno veloce, ecco. Però, scorrendo, si vedono cose interessanti. Arriverà?
https://youtu.be/JTYDmGXxm_w
Adesso, uno dei beta tester (TREG, nel lingo di Waytools) ha postato una cosa di un'ora e mezzo di recensione. Diciamo che lui non è uno veloce, ecco. Però, scorrendo, si vedono cose interessanti. Arriverà?
https://youtu.be/JTYDmGXxm_w
YouTube
TextBlade by WayTools (Hands-On Demo with Q&A)
*** Correction: At the 21:18 mark, I incorrectly stated the finger spacing for A and F was 17mm when in fact it is 21mm (an increase). An incorrect measuring method was used for the presentation. ***
On May, 9, 2020, I held 3 separate two hour Zoom Webinars…
On May, 9, 2020, I held 3 separate two hour Zoom Webinars…
Il presupposto è che la figlia sia diventata una tossica del cellulare. Sul fatto che la madre le abbia preso uno smartphone a 11 anni e sostanzialmente le abbia liberato tutte le funzioni dice invece molto sul modello educativo prima ancora di quello che è successo. Ma soprattutto, sarà una storia vera?
Money quote: “Bill Gates knew best. We should have waited until she was older. Smartphones aren’t like TVs; they’re like crack. And little by little, our daughter has chipped away at our rules and resolve. Insidious apps have made things worse, as has sloppy parenting.”
https://medium.com/modern-parent/my-daughter-was-a-creative-genius-then-we-bought-her-an-iphone-bf617c0b6ca0
Money quote: “Bill Gates knew best. We should have waited until she was older. Smartphones aren’t like TVs; they’re like crack. And little by little, our daughter has chipped away at our rules and resolve. Insidious apps have made things worse, as has sloppy parenting.”
https://medium.com/modern-parent/my-daughter-was-a-creative-genius-then-we-bought-her-an-iphone-bf617c0b6ca0
Medium
My daughter was a creative genius, and then we bought her an iPhone
My daughter used to be an artist.
Ci sono molti modi per parlare di Giulio Cesare. Uno di questi è quello di usarlo come strumento cognitivo per capire la sessualità degli antichi romani. Che era profondamente diversa dalla nostra, ma non certamente quella rappresentata nei film e nelle serie televisive (Nerone, Caligola, Spartacus). Comunque, diversa. Speriamo non capiti l'argomento in mano ai nostri censori perché potrebbe partire una revisione storica che manda tutta la romanità (e la grecità vieppiù) a farsi benedire.
Money quote: "The flip side was that, as long as the man was doing the penetrating, he was (usually) living up to his masculine duties – and it didn’t matter whom exactly he was penetrating. A woman, another man, or even – most shockingly to a modern audience – a child were all considered to be potentially sexually attractive to an adult man, and any of them could be a legitimate object of his attentions. At least in terms of preserving his manliness, that is – various people were off-limits because of their status, such as married women and free citizen children, but enslaved people and noncitizens were legally unprotected against sexual assault. (That doesn’t mean everyone observed those limits, of course, but there were various laws put in place to try to enforce them.) To be what we would deem ‘heterosexual’ – interested only in women – was possible, but not the default, and was worthy of at least as much comment as being interested only in boys."
https://psyche.co/ideas/what-jibes-about-caesar-tell-us-about-sex-in-ancient-rome
Money quote: "The flip side was that, as long as the man was doing the penetrating, he was (usually) living up to his masculine duties – and it didn’t matter whom exactly he was penetrating. A woman, another man, or even – most shockingly to a modern audience – a child were all considered to be potentially sexually attractive to an adult man, and any of them could be a legitimate object of his attentions. At least in terms of preserving his manliness, that is – various people were off-limits because of their status, such as married women and free citizen children, but enslaved people and noncitizens were legally unprotected against sexual assault. (That doesn’t mean everyone observed those limits, of course, but there were various laws put in place to try to enforce them.) To be what we would deem ‘heterosexual’ – interested only in women – was possible, but not the default, and was worthy of at least as much comment as being interested only in boys."
https://psyche.co/ideas/what-jibes-about-caesar-tell-us-about-sex-in-ancient-rome
Psyche
What rude jibes about Caesar tell us about sex in ancient Rome
‘Every woman’s man and every man’s woman’ was a slur Julius Caesar’s political opponents levied. What did it mean?
Tex Willer, il migliore degli uomini possibili: intervista a Mauro Boselli - la mia lunga intervista per Fumettologica
https://www.fumettologica.it/2020/11/mauro-boselli-tex-intervista-bonelli/
https://www.fumettologica.it/2020/11/mauro-boselli-tex-intervista-bonelli/
Fumettologica
Tex Willer, il migliore degli uomini possibili: intervista a Mauro Boselli
Abbiamo chiacchierato per quasi due ore con Mauro Boselli, il curatore editoriale e principale sceneggiatore di Tex.
Il segreto per costruire un buon film, cioè un film che funziona? Storyboard come se non ci fosse un domani.
Money quote: "Certainly, not every animated film that came out during this period was a bastion of excellence — hello to Pocahontas, a deeply confused movie about early American race relations. But I get the sentiment; in comparison to the sloppy storytelling and non-existent themes in so many big-money blockbusters of the day, many animated kids’ films stood out for their narrative ambitions.
To this day, a surprisingly high number of animated kids’ films continue to adhere to good storytelling fundamentals. Their character arcs are clear. Their plots are carefully tuned. Their themes aren’t precisely subtle — at least one character usually states them outright — but they’re at least present, which is more than I can say for many similarly successful live-action blockbusters aimed at the whole family (or some approximation thereof)."
https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/11/20/18099001/animated-films-storyboards-script-story-ralph-breaks-the-internet
Money quote: "Certainly, not every animated film that came out during this period was a bastion of excellence — hello to Pocahontas, a deeply confused movie about early American race relations. But I get the sentiment; in comparison to the sloppy storytelling and non-existent themes in so many big-money blockbusters of the day, many animated kids’ films stood out for their narrative ambitions.
To this day, a surprisingly high number of animated kids’ films continue to adhere to good storytelling fundamentals. Their character arcs are clear. Their plots are carefully tuned. Their themes aren’t precisely subtle — at least one character usually states them outright — but they’re at least present, which is more than I can say for many similarly successful live-action blockbusters aimed at the whole family (or some approximation thereof)."
https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/11/20/18099001/animated-films-storyboards-script-story-ralph-breaks-the-internet
Vox
Why do so many animated films have great stories? One secret: storyboarding.
The new film Ralph Breaks the Internet went through 283,839 drawings — most of which were thrown out — to find its story.
Forwarded from Riccardo
Ho passato il weekend su Raspberry Pi 400. Ho provato più distro Linux e giocato con l'overclock. L'ho smontata, filmata, stressata con dei benchmark e controllata con la camera termica. E mi sono divertito, parecchio divertito.
Il video è su YouTube. Per la recensione sul sito mi serve ancora qualche ora.
https://youtu.be/G0XkgtqjHsU
Il video è su YouTube. Per la recensione sul sito mi serve ancora qualche ora.
https://youtu.be/G0XkgtqjHsU
YouTube
RASPBERRY PI 400: provata e smontata!
Guadagna su Amazon:
• https://www.amazon.it/influencers?referrer=REF-EU-H125-eeepcit-21
→ Recensione a Raspberry Pi 400, la tastiera con dentro un computer quasi completo. Ho provato più versioni di Linux (Raspberry OS, Manjaro ARM, Ubuntu 20.10) per capire…
• https://www.amazon.it/influencers?referrer=REF-EU-H125-eeepcit-21
→ Recensione a Raspberry Pi 400, la tastiera con dentro un computer quasi completo. Ho provato più versioni di Linux (Raspberry OS, Manjaro ARM, Ubuntu 20.10) per capire…
Forwarded from Scrivere zen
Intersezionalità, diritti, politica venti minuti per pensare a come aiutare le persone ad essere se stesse 🤝https://www.instagram.com/tv/CHXVErsjEt-/?igshid=c7w6we1qqc11
Uno dei principali problemi del nostro tempo è la distinzione tra chi produce e chi consuma. Anzi, neanche quella: è la complessità del mondo contemporaneo, che rende impossibile costruire una relazione, immediata, sana e completa con l'ambiente che ci circonda. Pensateci: cosa ne sapete delle cose che avete attorno, in realtà?
Money quote: "Until about a century ago, most people knew a great deal about their immediate material world. Fewer and fewer do today, as commodities circulate with ever greater speed over greater distances. Because of the sheer complexity of contemporary production, even the people who do have professional responsibility for making things – the engineers and factory workers and chemists among us – tend to be specialists. Deepened knowledge usually also means narrowed knowledge. This tends to obscure awareness of the extended production chains through which materials, tools, components and packaging are sourced. Nobody – not an assembly-line worker, not a CEO – has a comprehensive vantage point. It is partly a problem of scale: the wider the view comes, the harder it is to see clearly what’s close at hand."
https://aeon.co/essays/do-you-know-your-stuff-the-ethics-of-the-material-world
Money quote: "Until about a century ago, most people knew a great deal about their immediate material world. Fewer and fewer do today, as commodities circulate with ever greater speed over greater distances. Because of the sheer complexity of contemporary production, even the people who do have professional responsibility for making things – the engineers and factory workers and chemists among us – tend to be specialists. Deepened knowledge usually also means narrowed knowledge. This tends to obscure awareness of the extended production chains through which materials, tools, components and packaging are sourced. Nobody – not an assembly-line worker, not a CEO – has a comprehensive vantage point. It is partly a problem of scale: the wider the view comes, the harder it is to see clearly what’s close at hand."
https://aeon.co/essays/do-you-know-your-stuff-the-ethics-of-the-material-world
Aeon
Material intelligence
The chasm between producers and consumers leaves many of us estranged from beauty and a vital part of an ethical life
Leica, foto di famiglia in bianco e nero - il mio articolo per La Stampa
https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/news/2020/11/10/news/leica-foto-di-famiglia-in-bianco-e-nero-1.39523155
https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/news/2020/11/10/news/leica-foto-di-famiglia-in-bianco-e-nero-1.39523155
La Stampa
Leica Q Monochrom, ritratto di famiglia in bianco e nero
L'azienda tedesca ha presentato la versione monocromatica della compatta con obiettivo da 28mm f/1.7 dotato di autofocus. La casa di Wetzlar amplia così la famiglia della M-10 Monochrom, la storica macchina fotografica che scatta senza colore
Stasera c'è un evento storico di Apple: un cambio di paradigma. Le domande che ci facciamo, che oggi sono diventate dei rumors e certezze, sono solo una parte della storia. Il cambiamento è una cosa buona: va abbracciato!
https://twitter.com/reneritchie/status/1326176826176270338?s=20
https://twitter.com/reneritchie/status/1326176826176270338?s=20
Twitter
Rene Ritchie
Been waiting on today for almost a decade. Regardless of what happens, what gets shown off, what the good and bad points are, new competition, new approaches are rejuvenating. Apple silicon is going to change the industry and continue to push *everyone* forward.…
Leica Q2 Monochrom è la fotocamera monocromatica “per tutti” - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/leica-q2-monochrom/
https://www.macitynet.it/leica-q2-monochrom/
Macitynet.it
Leica Q2 Monochrom è la fotocamera monocromatica “per tutti” - Macitynet.it
Il lockdown non ferma Leica che crea la famiglia delle fotocamere in bianco e nero aggiungendo alla M-10 Monochrom anche Leica Q2 Monochrom
La grande incognita è la capacità di leadership di Joe Biden (ammesso che l'anno prossimo Donald Trump lo faccia arrivare alla casa Bianca). Si cominciano a guardare meglio i dettagli dell'uomo. Una spigolatura che però dice molto, tradotta da Fumettologica
https://www.fumettologica.it/2020/11/joe-biden-striscia-hagar/
https://www.fumettologica.it/2020/11/joe-biden-striscia-hagar/
Fumettologica
La storia della striscia a fumetti sulla scrivania di Joe Biden
Sulla propria scrivania, il neo eletto presidente degli Stati Uniti Joe Biden ha una striscia a fumetti incorniciata, a cui è molto legato.
Apple, il colore dei chip - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/apple-il-colore-dei-chip/
https://www.macitynet.it/apple-il-colore-dei-chip/
Macitynet.it
Apple, il colore dei chip - Macitynet.it
A Cupertino ce l'hanno fatta: non c'è coronavirus e lockdown che tenga, l'azienda di Tim Cook ha tagliato in orario il traguardo con M1. E adesso cosa succede?
Come fanno i nuovi Mac ad adottare lo stesso chip M1 ed essere diversi fra loro? - il mio articolo per La Stampa
https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/news/2020/11/11/news/come-fanno-i-nuovi-mac-ad-adottare-lo-stesso-chip-m1-ed-essere-diversi-fra-loro-1.39524290
https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/news/2020/11/11/news/come-fanno-i-nuovi-mac-ad-adottare-lo-stesso-chip-m1-ed-essere-diversi-fra-loro-1.39524290
La Stampa
Come fanno i nuovi Mac ad adottare lo stesso chip M1 ed essere diversi fra loro?
Il primo processore Apple per computer ha potenza e autonomia da vendere e una caratteristica: è lo unico per tutti i prodotti. Che adesso si differenzieranno per dotazione, funzionalità e soprattutto grazie al marketing