Lo strano caso del successo di Alan Ford e del Gruppo TNT in Serbia e nel resto della ex Yugoslavia
Money quote: "The fact that Bunker’s humour was understood by his Yugoslav readers had a lot to do with translator Nenad Brixy. “He managed to create a peculiar language” Sršen explains, “through which all the characters spoke with a strange mixture of high style and street lingo, something originally theatrical and bizarrely funny.”"
https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/12465/alan-ford-comic-books-yugoslavia
Money quote: "The fact that Bunker’s humour was understood by his Yugoslav readers had a lot to do with translator Nenad Brixy. “He managed to create a peculiar language” Sršen explains, “through which all the characters spoke with a strange mixture of high style and street lingo, something originally theatrical and bizarrely funny.”"
https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/12465/alan-ford-comic-books-yugoslavia
The Calvert Journal
The name’s Ford, Alan Ford: how an Italian comic book spy became a Yugoslav hero
The series only became a runaway success in the former Yugoslavia. What was the secret behind its dedicated cult following?
Forwarded from Fumettologica
Tra le più interessanti in uscita questo mese.
https://www.fumettologica.it/2021/03/anime-streaming-marzo-2021/
https://www.fumettologica.it/2021/03/anime-streaming-marzo-2021/
Fumettologica
5 serie d'animazione da guardare in streaming a marzo 2021 - Fumettologica
Una selezione degli anime più interessanti tra quelli resi disponibili a marzo 2021 in Italia sulle piattaforme di streaming.
Mac, iPhone, iPad: la sicurezza informatica secondo Apple - il mio articolo per La Stampa
https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/news/2021/03/07/news/mac-iphone-ipad-la-sicurezza-informatica-secondo-apple-1.39992056
https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/news/2021/03/07/news/mac-iphone-ipad-la-sicurezza-informatica-secondo-apple-1.39992056
La Stampa
Mac, iPhone, iPad: la sicurezza informatica secondo Apple
La scoperta (e neutralizzazione) del primo malware per Apple Silicon mostra il lavoro dietro le quinte del colosso di Cupertino per rendere sicura le sue piattaforme
Puf puf, anche questa domenica ce l'ho fatta: ho finito alle due di notte ma Mostly Weekly, la mia newsletter della domenica, è pronta, in tutta la sua gloria e i suoi refusi (o i suoi gloriosi refusi, se preferite). Per iscriversi basta andare qua, come sapete:
https://antoniodini.com/iscrizione/
Niente di più facile. La cosa divertente di scrivere questa newsletter è che sta cominciando a prendere forma un "sistema" che coinvolge anche il mio sito personale, la scrittura con il markdown, la sincronizzazione dei contenuti con git, l'integrazione e deployment continuo di un sito statico in Jamstack. Tutto fatto a manina. Qualcosa racconto qui:
https://antoniodini.com/storie/computer/scrivere-con-git.html
ma il meglio deve ancora venire, se riesco a trovare il tempo per mettere assieme il ragionamento che vorrei fare su come si fanno i siti oggi e sul digital gardening. Intanto, anche questa domenica la newsletter è partita!
https://antoniodini.com/iscrizione/
Niente di più facile. La cosa divertente di scrivere questa newsletter è che sta cominciando a prendere forma un "sistema" che coinvolge anche il mio sito personale, la scrittura con il markdown, la sincronizzazione dei contenuti con git, l'integrazione e deployment continuo di un sito statico in Jamstack. Tutto fatto a manina. Qualcosa racconto qui:
https://antoniodini.com/storie/computer/scrivere-con-git.html
ma il meglio deve ancora venire, se riesco a trovare il tempo per mettere assieme il ragionamento che vorrei fare su come si fanno i siti oggi e sul digital gardening. Intanto, anche questa domenica la newsletter è partita!
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Una delle cose che si pensa quando si legge un articolo in inglese è che abbia un valore globale: se c'è una contrapposizione est-ovest, Asia-Africa-Occidente, ad esempio, noi italiani ci sentiamo dalla parte dell'articolista madrelingua e non nel resto del mondo. Invece, questo che peraltro è un tema interessante (la modalità occidentale di allevare i bambini piccoli è in rottura con quella del resto del mondo e della storia dell'umanità) diventa un trattato insulare e limitato, una cosa tipo anglosassoni-vs-resto-del-mondo. Però è interessante.
Money quote: "In most other societies around the world, babies stick with their parents longer. A 2016 review that looked at research on children sharing not just a room but a bed with one or more of their parents found a high prevalence in many Asian countries: over 70% in India and Indonesia, for example, and over 80% in Sri Lanka and Vietnam. Research on bedsharing rates in countries across Africa is patchy, but where it does exist suggests the practice is near-universal."
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210222-the-unusual-ways-western-parents-raise-children
Money quote: "In most other societies around the world, babies stick with their parents longer. A 2016 review that looked at research on children sharing not just a room but a bed with one or more of their parents found a high prevalence in many Asian countries: over 70% in India and Indonesia, for example, and over 80% in Sri Lanka and Vietnam. Research on bedsharing rates in countries across Africa is patchy, but where it does exist suggests the practice is near-universal."
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210222-the-unusual-ways-western-parents-raise-children
Bbc
Is the Western way of raising kids weird?
From sleeping in separate beds to their children to transporting them in prams, Western parents have some unusual ideas about how to raise them
È un caso reale di “Bobby Tables”:
https://twitter.com/RachelTrue/status/1368004197166108676
(Il thread è uno spettacolo)
https://twitter.com/RachelTrue/status/1368004197166108676
(Il thread è uno spettacolo)
Twitter
Rachel True
Can get your coders to free my last name from icloud jail? Been locked out for 6+ months because of an uncapitalized t in TRUE, my surname but also a computer command. Now that I a layman have explained problem to you a giant computer company, could u fix?…
Compreso il consiglio: “If you decide to change your name, Rachel’); drop table AppleID_master; —
has a nice ring to it”
has a nice ring to it”
I migliori libri per costruire una strategia digital personale - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/i-migliori-libri-per-costruire-una-strategia-digital-personale/
https://www.macitynet.it/i-migliori-libri-per-costruire-una-strategia-digital-personale/
Macitynet.it
I migliori libri per costruire una strategia digital personale
Da Seth Godin con la sua Mucca Viola (in un mondo tutto marrone) all'onicotecnica, passando per la pubblicità su Facebook e i networker digitali. In questa nuova raccolta di testi su marketing e comunicazione digitale (ma non solo) vi mostriamo come si fa…
E se di sera tardi, prima di andare a letto, aveste voglia di leggere qualcosa di buono e di qualità, Nerdology, Sports and More di Alessandra Ortenzi è la vostra altra newsletter (io non mi offendo, anzi: mi piace un botto).
http://www.alessandraortenzi.it/nerdology-sports-and-more-la-mia-newsletter/
http://www.alessandraortenzi.it/nerdology-sports-and-more-la-mia-newsletter/
Infine, ecco a voi la puntata numero dieci di Tilde, il podcast che conduco con Riccardo. È passato un po' di tempo dall'ultima volta, ma è che siamo stati presi. Infatti nel frattempo abbiamo fatto un sacco di cose: un paio di lockdown, tanto lavoro su zoom, la spesa al supermercato, pure qualche giro attorno a casa e infinite maratone in soggiorno davanti alla Switch. Insomma, tanta roba. La puntata, intanto, eccola qua.
https://tilde.show/podcast-10/
https://tilde.show/podcast-10/
Storia di Barbara Liskov, la donna che ha contribuito in maniera determinante alo sviluppo degli algoritmi moderni. Un pensierino per l’8 marzo.
Money quote: "By the time Barbara Liskov earned her doctorate in computer science from Stanford University in 1968, she envied electrical engineers because they worked with hardware connected by wires. That architecture naturally allowed them to break up problems and divide them into modules, an approach that gave them more control since it permitted them to reason independently about discrete components.
As a computer scientist thinking about code, Liskov had no physical objects to work with. Like a novelist or a poet, she was staring at a blank page."
https://www.quantamagazine.org/barbara-liskov-is-the-architect-of-modern-algorithms-20191120/
Money quote: "By the time Barbara Liskov earned her doctorate in computer science from Stanford University in 1968, she envied electrical engineers because they worked with hardware connected by wires. That architecture naturally allowed them to break up problems and divide them into modules, an approach that gave them more control since it permitted them to reason independently about discrete components.
As a computer scientist thinking about code, Liskov had no physical objects to work with. Like a novelist or a poet, she was staring at a blank page."
https://www.quantamagazine.org/barbara-liskov-is-the-architect-of-modern-algorithms-20191120/
Quanta Magazine
The Architect of Modern Algorithms
Barbara Liskov pioneered the modern approach to writing code. She warns that the challenges facing computer science today can’t be overcome with good design alone.
La storia dietro VLC (software che cambiano il mondo)
Money quote: "VLC is a juggernaut among media players. Since February 2005, it’s been downloaded 3 billion times, according to VideoLAN. Even before the nonprofit began tracking downloads, it was clear that VLC was a runaway success. In an era before Netflix and YouTube, users had few choices when it came to media software, and none of them were terribly good. There was Windows Media Player, a janky and underpowered program sufficient for entry-level users, as well as monstrosities like RealPlayer, which locked users into odd codecs and file formats. Though first developed in 1996, VLC was a breath of fresh air when it was released in 2001 under a GNU General Public license: It was customizable and high-powered, and, above all, it worked. That release extended VLC’s reach beyond École Centrale as the software was adopted by the wider public."
https://increment.com/teams/the-team-that-powers-vlc/
Money quote: "VLC is a juggernaut among media players. Since February 2005, it’s been downloaded 3 billion times, according to VideoLAN. Even before the nonprofit began tracking downloads, it was clear that VLC was a runaway success. In an era before Netflix and YouTube, users had few choices when it came to media software, and none of them were terribly good. There was Windows Media Player, a janky and underpowered program sufficient for entry-level users, as well as monstrosities like RealPlayer, which locked users into odd codecs and file formats. Though first developed in 1996, VLC was a breath of fresh air when it was released in 2001 under a GNU General Public license: It was customizable and high-powered, and, above all, it worked. That release extended VLC’s reach beyond École Centrale as the software was adopted by the wider public."
https://increment.com/teams/the-team-that-powers-vlc/
Increment
The team that powers VLC – Increment: Teams
How a group of university students transformed a school project into a media-player mainstay.
Come mi sono organizzato per pubblicare cose sul mio sito dall'iPad velocemente e senza distrazioni: "offline first"
https://antoniodini.com/on-writing/
https://antoniodini.com/on-writing/
Mostly Here
On Writing
Finalmente sono riuscito a costruire il setup che mi permette di pubblicare il mio sito senza scrivere codice, in piedi accanto alla finestra, appoggiato alla mia libreria, usando solo l'iPad
Dietro Wolfram e Mathematica c'è una persona: Stephen Wolfram. Un mezzo genio che ha idee chiare su cosa succederà (e perché viviamo in un universo computazionale, qualsiasi cosa voglia dire).
Money quote: "The British-born computer scientist's life is littered with exceptional achievements -- completing a PhD in theoretical physics at Caltech at age 20, winning a MacArthur Genius Grant at 21, and creating the technical computing platform Mathematica (which is used by millions of mathematicians, scientists, and engineers worldwide), plus the Wolfram Language, and the Wolfram|Alpha knowledge engine. "
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/stephen-wolfram-on-the-future-of-programming-and-why-we-live-in-a-computational-universe/
Money quote: "The British-born computer scientist's life is littered with exceptional achievements -- completing a PhD in theoretical physics at Caltech at age 20, winning a MacArthur Genius Grant at 21, and creating the technical computing platform Mathematica (which is used by millions of mathematicians, scientists, and engineers worldwide), plus the Wolfram Language, and the Wolfram|Alpha knowledge engine. "
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/stephen-wolfram-on-the-future-of-programming-and-why-we-live-in-a-computational-universe/
TechRepublic
Stephen Wolfram on the future of programming and why we live in a computational universe
The brains behind Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha, and the Wolfram Language talks about how programming languages need to develop.
Cancellarsi da ClubHouse, io l’ho fatto. Qui c’è il modulo della mail da inviare:
https://tilde.show/chiudere-account-clubhouse/
e poi ne abbiamo parlato nel podcast, dove spieghiamo il perché e il percome.
https://tilde.show/podcast-10/
Money quote: “Con la puntata perduta (the lost podcast, sentite come suona bene?) ci siamo giocati una bella chiacchierata sul podcast du Barack Obama e Bruce Springsteen (che ci piace), su Clubhouse (che alla fine non ci piace: c’è anche la [lettera per cancellarsi](https://tilde.show/chiudere-account-clubhouse/)) e varie altre piccole cose. Però un tema, quello della scrittura e soprattutto della riscrittura, l’abbiamo salvato. ”
https://tilde.show/chiudere-account-clubhouse/
e poi ne abbiamo parlato nel podcast, dove spieghiamo il perché e il percome.
https://tilde.show/podcast-10/
Money quote: “Con la puntata perduta (the lost podcast, sentite come suona bene?) ci siamo giocati una bella chiacchierata sul podcast du Barack Obama e Bruce Springsteen (che ci piace), su Clubhouse (che alla fine non ci piace: c’è anche la [lettera per cancellarsi](https://tilde.show/chiudere-account-clubhouse/)) e varie altre piccole cose. Però un tema, quello della scrittura e soprattutto della riscrittura, l’abbiamo salvato. ”
tilde ~ podcast
Richiesta chiusura account Clubhouse ~ tilde podcast
Ecco il testo che abbiamo usato per la richiesta di chiusura dell'account Clubhouse e la cancellazione dei dati. Da inviare via email.
Se volete vedere cosa si può fare oggi con un drone che ieri neanche Michelangelo Antonioni sarebbe riuscito, eccovi serviti. Guardatelo sino alla fine, è cinematograficamente parlando la fine del mondo!
https://youtu.be/VgS54fqKxf0
https://youtu.be/VgS54fqKxf0
YouTube
Right Up Our Alley - FPV Drone Fly Through
This is the one that started it all. Looking for a creative way to help local businesses get back on their feet during the pandemic, JayByrd Films shot an FPV drone fly through at Bryant Lake Bowl, a vintage bowling alley in Uptown Minneapolis that has been…
Un'altra battaglia di quella straordinaria guerra che sta opponendo il testo semplice con marcatura leggera al testo ricco e complicato. Fantastico. Markdown, slack e un po' d'amore anche per Teams.
Money quote: "Markdown had a few advantages over the rich-text editors of the time, including better quality control over the resulting HTML. In Slack’s case, you didn’t really need to use it if you didn’t want to.
But Markdown has always been controversial with some, because while it’s much simpler to learn than even markup tools such as HTML or CSS, it’s always been considered a power-user tool, meaning that when given a choice, many regular users prefer WYSIWYG rich-text editors. Why put stars around your text when you can simply hit command-B?"
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa7nbn/slacks-new-rich-text-editor-shows-why-markdown-still-scares-people
Money quote: "Markdown had a few advantages over the rich-text editors of the time, including better quality control over the resulting HTML. In Slack’s case, you didn’t really need to use it if you didn’t want to.
But Markdown has always been controversial with some, because while it’s much simpler to learn than even markup tools such as HTML or CSS, it’s always been considered a power-user tool, meaning that when given a choice, many regular users prefer WYSIWYG rich-text editors. Why put stars around your text when you can simply hit command-B?"
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa7nbn/slacks-new-rich-text-editor-shows-why-markdown-still-scares-people
Vice
Slack's New Rich Text Editor Shows That Markdown Still Scares People
The new WYSIWYG editor makes a bloated program even more bloated.
Di solito negli articoli come questo la premessa è buona ("ecco cosa manca davvero all'iPad!) però il risultato è alquanto limitato. Qui siamo alla sufficienza risicata.
Money quote: "The iPad is a fresh start with disruptive technology and ideas. Security and privacy, for example.
It’s still not as useful as a PC, you say? The thing about disruptive technologies is that they come from behind. Initially, they play second fiddle to the status quo, but then as their innovation matures and becomes a rounded product, they pull ahead."
https://willjmurphy.medium.com/this-simple-change-will-take-the-ipad-to-the-next-level-ac47de66a8f0
Money quote: "The iPad is a fresh start with disruptive technology and ideas. Security and privacy, for example.
It’s still not as useful as a PC, you say? The thing about disruptive technologies is that they come from behind. Initially, they play second fiddle to the status quo, but then as their innovation matures and becomes a rounded product, they pull ahead."
https://willjmurphy.medium.com/this-simple-change-will-take-the-ipad-to-the-next-level-ac47de66a8f0
Medium
This Simple Change Will Take the iPad to the Next Level
The iPad is where Apple wants to go with personal productivity. I’ve used an iPad rather than a laptop since 2015. I miss only 1 feature.
In queste sere che si sta chiusi in casa io scrivo Mostly Weekly, la mia newsletter che esce ogni domenica. Qui è disponibile lo scorso numero (e se volete, vi potete abbonare, è gratuito).
https://antoniodini.com/mostly/weekly/archivio/105.html
https://antoniodini.com/mostly/weekly/archivio/105.html
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