Addio all'ufficio. In modo un po' particolare. Il messaggio a chi lo seguirà. Ma secondo me non durerà.
Money quote: "Hi. My name is Ethan Zuckerman. From 2011-2020, I enjoyed working in this office. I led a research group at the Media Lab called the Center for Civic Media, and I taught here and in Comparative Media Studies and Writing. I resigned in the summer of 2019, but stayed at the lab to help my students graduate and find jobs and to wind down our grants. When COVID-19 hit in March 2020, I left campus and came back on August 14 to clean out my office and to leave you this note."
http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2020/08/15/to-the-future-occupants-of-my-office-at-the-mit-media-lab/
Money quote: "Hi. My name is Ethan Zuckerman. From 2011-2020, I enjoyed working in this office. I led a research group at the Media Lab called the Center for Civic Media, and I taught here and in Comparative Media Studies and Writing. I resigned in the summer of 2019, but stayed at the lab to help my students graduate and find jobs and to wind down our grants. When COVID-19 hit in March 2020, I left campus and came back on August 14 to clean out my office and to leave you this note."
http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2020/08/15/to-the-future-occupants-of-my-office-at-the-mit-media-lab/
Ethan Zuckerman
To the future occupants of my office at the MIT Media Lab - Ethan Zuckerman
To the occupant(s) of E15-351 Re: About the window. Hi. My name is Ethan Zuckerman. From 2011-2020, I enjoyed working in this office. I led a research group at the Media Lab called the Center for Civic Media, and I taught here and in Comparative Media Studies…
Sono da sempre "addicted" agli strumenti di scrittura, soprattutto quelli meccanici. La serie di video di Riccardo "Super fun with caps" è fantastica (vedi link alla fine). Ma anche qui ci sono cose interessanti: ad esempio questo ragazzo che ha costruito con la stampante 3d la sua tastiera ideale. Se date un occhio al pezzo, dopo aver visto i video di Riccardo, avrete quelle competenze necessarie a stupirvi ancora di più.
Money quote: "The keyboard is done! This is basically the result of what I've been working on for the past 2 months, which has involved 3 iterations of testing machines, over 100 printed switches, and now finally a keyboard that I can type on. Unfortunately it is not a very good keyboard, but you can't win them all."
https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/jesboard.html
Super fun with caps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2IfY6_v5fI&list=PLa8TIOOoI_myvDiKooO5ow7wybtwqusYD
Money quote: "The keyboard is done! This is basically the result of what I've been working on for the past 2 months, which has involved 3 iterations of testing machines, over 100 printed switches, and now finally a keyboard that I can type on. Unfortunately it is not a very good keyboard, but you can't win them all."
https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/jesboard.html
Super fun with caps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2IfY6_v5fI&list=PLa8TIOOoI_myvDiKooO5ow7wybtwqusYD
YouTube
SUPER FUN WITH CAPS // Akko 3068: meccanica e Bluetooth
Primo episodio di SUPER FUN WITH CAPS! Recensione alla tastiera meccanica Akko 3068 con switch Cherry MX Red, connessione Bluetooth e layout 65%. Questo formato ha 68 tasti: riesce ad essere compatto e a integrare le frecce direzionali. Ha keycaps in PBT…
La somma e le parti di Apple: da Apple TV a Facetime - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/la-somma-e-le-parti-di-apple-da-apple-tv-a-facetime/
https://www.macitynet.it/la-somma-e-le-parti-di-apple-da-apple-tv-a-facetime/
macitynet.it
La somma e le parti di Apple: da Apple TV a Facetime
Con le novità presentate alla WWDC21 Apple sta rinnovando il suo ecosistema, a cominciare da Apple TV, FaceTime, HomePod mini
Uno straordinario documento: la streetview della Manhattan del 1940.
Money quote: "Between 1939 and 1941, the Works Progress Administration collaborated with the New York City Tax Department to collect photographs of every building in the five boroughs of New York City. In 2018, the NYC Municipal Archives completed the digitization and tagging of these photos. This website places them on a map. Zoom in! Every dot is a photo."
https://1940s.nyc/map#13.69/40.7093/-73.99397
Money quote: "Between 1939 and 1941, the Works Progress Administration collaborated with the New York City Tax Department to collect photographs of every building in the five boroughs of New York City. In 2018, the NYC Municipal Archives completed the digitization and tagging of these photos. This website places them on a map. Zoom in! Every dot is a photo."
https://1940s.nyc/map#13.69/40.7093/-73.99397
Brutalismo e tower blocks - il mio articolo per Anobii
https://blog.anobii.com/it/2021/06/11/brutalismo-e-tower-blocks/
https://blog.anobii.com/it/2021/06/11/brutalismo-e-tower-blocks/
Anobii Blog
Brutalismo e tower blocks - Anobii Blog
L'architettura britannica del dopoguerra e un romanzo distopico di J.G. Ballard
Cosa sta succedendo a macOS? Sta diventando un sistema sempre più chiuso, cioè che non fa funzionare software che non provenga da fonti lecitamente autorizza da Apple. Però in parte è sempre possibile utilizzare il software "non firmato". Qui una spiegazione articolata e ben fatta, che aiuta a capire anche quali saranno le future evoluzioni del sistema operativo, probabilmente. La spiegazione precede la WWDC, che si chiude questa settimana.
Money quote: "Can you distribute Mac software over the internet without signing it, thereby avoiding Developer ID and notarization entirely? Technically, currently, yes, although Apple has indicated that a future version of macOS may not allow unsigned code to run at all. Some people claim that Mac users can "just right click" to run unsigned software. But what does that mean exactly? Let's look at the user experience, in a series of screenshots. "
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/unsigned.html
Money quote: "Can you distribute Mac software over the internet without signing it, thereby avoiding Developer ID and notarization entirely? Technically, currently, yes, although Apple has indicated that a future version of macOS may not allow unsigned code to run at all. Some people claim that Mac users can "just right click" to run unsigned software. But what does that mean exactly? Let's look at the user experience, in a series of screenshots. "
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/unsigned.html
Mentre preparo il prossimo numero della newsletter Mostly Weekly (che esce domani) ho anche aggiornato un po' di cose sul mio sito.
Ad esempio, questo racconto del test che feci due estati fa alla Tesla Model 3
http://antoniodini.com/tesla-model-3/
Ad esempio, questo racconto del test che feci due estati fa alla Tesla Model 3
http://antoniodini.com/tesla-model-3/
La somma e le parti di Apple: da Apple TV a Facetime - Il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/la-somma-e-le-parti-di-apple-da-apple-tv-a-facetime/
https://www.macitynet.it/la-somma-e-le-parti-di-apple-da-apple-tv-a-facetime/
macitynet.it
La somma e le parti di Apple: da Apple TV a Facetime
Con le novità presentate alla WWDC21 Apple sta rinnovando il suo ecosistema, a cominciare da Apple TV, FaceTime, HomePod mini
Com'è stato andare al Recurse Center (“self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers based in New York City”) nell'epoca del coronavirus
Money quote: "Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Recurse Center has shifted to an online-only format, and suddenly my excuses for not attending had evaporated. I applied for a batch and went through the standard interview process: first a quick Zoom call to talk about big picture stuff (personal motivation and so on), followed by a pair programming session (I worked on a toy computer algebra system in Python). And like that, I had been accepted!"
http://cadlag.org/posts/on-showing-up-to-school-in-your-underwear.html
Money quote: "Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Recurse Center has shifted to an online-only format, and suddenly my excuses for not attending had evaporated. I applied for a batch and went through the standard interview process: first a quick Zoom call to talk about big picture stuff (personal motivation and so on), followed by a pair programming session (I worked on a toy computer algebra system in Python). And like that, I had been accepted!"
http://cadlag.org/posts/on-showing-up-to-school-in-your-underwear.html
Il nuovo numero di Mostly Weekly è appena uscito. Ci si iscrive qui:
https://antoniodini.com/iscrizione/
https://antoniodini.com/iscrizione/
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I migliori libri su Arduino e Raspberry Pi - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/i-migliori-libri-su-arduino-e-raspberry-pi/
https://www.macitynet.it/i-migliori-libri-su-arduino-e-raspberry-pi/
macitynet.it
I migliori libri su Arduino e Raspberry Pi
ebook, Libri
I migliori libri per studiare (e capire) le smart city - Il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/i-migliori-libri-per-studiare-e-capire-le-smart-city/
https://www.macitynet.it/i-migliori-libri-per-studiare-e-capire-le-smart-city/
macitynet.it
I migliori libri per studiare (e capire) le smart city
ebook, Libri
Non sono un amante della fisica, degli esperimenti, mi annoiano persino le fiere con i banchetti Stemm che ti insegnano cose. Però questo post sull'entropia spiegata con le pecore, ragazzi e ragazze mie, è fantastico
Money quote: "So there’s a deep mystery lurking behind our seemingly simple ice-melting puzzle. At the level of microscopic particles, nature doesn’t have a preference for doing things in one direction versus doing them in reverse. The atomic world is a two-way street.
And yet, for some reason, when we get to large collections of atoms, a one-way street emerges for the direction in which events take place, even though this wasn’t present at the microscopic level. An arrow of time emerges."
https://aatishb.com/entropy/
Money quote: "So there’s a deep mystery lurking behind our seemingly simple ice-melting puzzle. At the level of microscopic particles, nature doesn’t have a preference for doing things in one direction versus doing them in reverse. The atomic world is a two-way street.
And yet, for some reason, when we get to large collections of atoms, a one-way street emerges for the direction in which events take place, even though this wasn’t present at the microscopic level. An arrow of time emerges."
https://aatishb.com/entropy/
Aatishb
Entropy Explained
An explorable blog post about entropy, with sheep.
Lee Friedlander per sessant'anni ha fotografo la moglie. Un ritratto intimo incredibile.
Money quote: "Here is photography’s ultimate irony: it can freeze time, but never stop it"
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/lee-friedlanders-intimate-portraits-of-his-wife-through-sixty-years-of-marriage
Money quote: "Here is photography’s ultimate irony: it can freeze time, but never stop it"
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/lee-friedlanders-intimate-portraits-of-his-wife-through-sixty-years-of-marriage
The New Yorker
Lee Friedlander’s Intimate Portraits of His Wife, Through Sixty Years of Marriage
Friedlander’s style of photography is usually cool, winking, and gamesman-like, but his pictures of his wife thrum with gentle affection.
Se vi piacciono le cose piccole, più piccole di un Rasbperry Pi per intendersi, ma non siete troppo bravi con l'Assembly, ecco a voi MicroPython (perché almeno Python lo conoscete, no?)
Money quote: "MicroPython is a lean and efficient implementation of the Python 3 programming language that includes a small subset of the Python standard library and is optimised to run on microcontrollers and in constrained environments.
The MicroPython pyboard is a compact electronic circuit board that runs MicroPython on the bare metal, giving you a low-level Python operating system that can be used to control all kinds of electronic projects."
https://micropython.org
Money quote: "MicroPython is a lean and efficient implementation of the Python 3 programming language that includes a small subset of the Python standard library and is optimised to run on microcontrollers and in constrained environments.
The MicroPython pyboard is a compact electronic circuit board that runs MicroPython on the bare metal, giving you a low-level Python operating system that can be used to control all kinds of electronic projects."
https://micropython.org
micropython.org
MicroPython - Python for microcontrollers
MicroPython is a lean and efficient
implementation of the Python 3 programming language
that includes a small subset of the Python standard library and is
optimised to run on microcontrollers and in constrained environments.
implementation of the Python 3 programming language
that includes a small subset of the Python standard library and is
optimised to run on microcontrollers and in constrained environments.
Google sta passando dall'introduzione di nuove app ogni quattro mesi a cambiare nome a quelle esistenti due volte l'anno. Ma l'obiettivo generale rimane sempre lo stesso: essere certi che in nessuna circostanza uno sappia quale prodotto Google sta usando.
Il marketing di quell’azienda brucia il talento tecnico dietro ai suoi prodotti in un falò inutile di cui non si vede la ragione
https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/14/22532559/google-workspace-chat-officially-available-consumer-gmail-spaces
Il marketing di quell’azienda brucia il talento tecnico dietro ai suoi prodotti in un falò inutile di cui non si vede la ragione
https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/14/22532559/google-workspace-chat-officially-available-consumer-gmail-spaces
The Verge
Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody
Gmail’s getting some new buttons soon.
Chi segue questo canale sa che sono allergico a molte cose. I formati chiusi sono una di queste. Ma in realtà sono allergico anche ai formati scomodi e ai formati stupidi o utilizzati a sproposito. È il caso di chi fa pdf e li mette sul web. Pensavo fosse una mia idiosincrasia. Adesso c'è la scienza che lo sostiene.
Money quote: "Jakob Nielsen first wrote about how PDF files should never be read online in 1996 — only three years after PDFs were invented. Over 20 years later, our research continues to prove that PDFs are just as problematic for users. Despite the evidence, they’re still used far too often to present content online.
PDFs are typically large masses of text and images. The format is intended and optimized for print. It’s inherently inaccessible, unpleasant to read, and cumbersome to navigate online. Neither time nor changes in user behavior have softened our evidence-based stance on this subject. Even 20 years later, PDFs are still unfit for human consumption in the digital space. Do not use PDFs to present digital content that could and should otherwise be a web page."
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/pdf-unfit-for-human-consumption/
Money quote: "Jakob Nielsen first wrote about how PDF files should never be read online in 1996 — only three years after PDFs were invented. Over 20 years later, our research continues to prove that PDFs are just as problematic for users. Despite the evidence, they’re still used far too often to present content online.
PDFs are typically large masses of text and images. The format is intended and optimized for print. It’s inherently inaccessible, unpleasant to read, and cumbersome to navigate online. Neither time nor changes in user behavior have softened our evidence-based stance on this subject. Even 20 years later, PDFs are still unfit for human consumption in the digital space. Do not use PDFs to present digital content that could and should otherwise be a web page."
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/pdf-unfit-for-human-consumption/
Nielsen Norman Group
PDF: Still Unfit for Human Consumption, 20 Years Later
Research spanning 20 years proves PDFs are problematic for online reading. Yet they’re still prevalent and users continue to get lost in them. They’re unpleasant to read and navigate and remain unfit for digital-content display.
Arriva Factorio (finalmente). Videogioco in cui costruire qualcosa, qualunque cosa, è diventato lo scopo finale.
Money quote: "It took us 8.5 years. It has been an incredible ride and we have arrived at the destination!
Factorio is leaving early access. This opens the game up to all the players who just don't play early access games, the same with reviewers who only cover finished games, which is very understandable.
For this special occasion, we created a launch trailer. It tries to capture the story of the development in 45 seconds."
https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-360
Ma c'è anche chi sostiene che il gioco abbia molto in comune con il software engineering. Pensa te.
https://blog.nindalf.com/posts/factorio-and-software-engineering/
Money quote: "It took us 8.5 years. It has been an incredible ride and we have arrived at the destination!
Factorio is leaving early access. This opens the game up to all the players who just don't play early access games, the same with reviewers who only cover finished games, which is very understandable.
For this special occasion, we created a launch trailer. It tries to capture the story of the development in 45 seconds."
https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-360
Ma c'è anche chi sostiene che il gioco abbia molto in comune con il software engineering. Pensa te.
https://blog.nindalf.com/posts/factorio-and-software-engineering/
Factorio
Friday Facts #360 - 1.0 is here! | Factorio
Hello, the atmosphere in the last week was kind of special. We experienced the feeling of the final release being on the horizon many times. And we were shown that it isn't the case time and time again. So it feels very special when it is actually becoming…
Forwarded from Riccardo
Poi: domani uscirà (forse, perché sono al pronto soccorso per un impicio familiare da questa mattina alle 11! e menomale che ho l’M1 altrimenti avrei finito la batteria da un pezzo) l’ultima puntata* della stagione di tilde. Sarà una puntata strana, diversa in tutto. Un esperimento che abbiamo inseguito per mesi e che adesso proviamo a mandare online. Potrebbe non piacervi, o forse sì. Io non ho ancora capito se è ridicola oppure no. Ma mi raccomando di fare attenzione alle parole usate (non da noi, scoprirete da chi) perché non sono il frutto di una mente “usuale”.
*: a dire il vero ne seguirà una con le dovute spiegazioni tecniche.
*: a dire il vero ne seguirà una con le dovute spiegazioni tecniche.