Weekly Digest

Life
Nice weather equals a weekend of garden DIY. I’m also a little late this week cause holidays! Dabbling with the photography side of things too. Started a separate Instagram account just for the photo’s and following photographers…not sure it’s helping. Also having some thoughts about domains and doing some self-hosting. Time will tell.

Media
Black Panther – Second watch and still really good
Molly’s Game – Good film, great cast and a typical Sorkin script but just seemed to be missing something?

Links

• The Complete Timeline of Marvel Cinematic Universe Movies, From ‘Iron Man’ to ‘Infinity War’
  Great write-up of the MCU timeline so far. There’s spoilers at the end for Infinity War but the rest is gold.
• I tried leaving Facebook. I couldn’t – The Verge
  Facebook is an emotional labor machine, and if you want to leave it, you’re going to have to start doing a lot of work
  Facebook is really sticky despite being a total shit of a company.
• Oculus Go review: VR has never been so good for so cheap
  The Oculus Go is the first VR headset that truly makes it easy to dive into VR without the hassle of connecting a phone or PC.
  I still have faith in VR as a platform but it has to be easier than it currently is. Too much faff.
• Scenes Unseen: The Summer of ’78 – The New York Times
  These photo’s are so good…and so well presented.
• Please don’t use this study to justify your horrible habit of using two spaces after periods – The Verge
  Is it better to have one or two spaces after a period? The first study investigating this hotly contested issue is here, and it supposedly gives the win to the two-spacers. But a closer look at the research suggests that the only reasonable interpretation is that double spacing after a period remains bad. It’s ugly, it doesn’t help when it comes to what matters most (reading comprehension), and the experiment that supports its benefits used an outdated font style.
  Who still does double spaces after periods? If you do….stop it.
• The original iMac: 20 years since Apple changed its fate – Six Colors
  Six Colors by Jason Snell and Dan Moren
  Weirdly l thought the iMac was older than 20 years. It was an amazing design and so fresh compared to the beige towers that everyone had at the time. I remember a friend picking up one of the MacBooks before they brought in the aluminium design. It was gorgeous but the new designs made it look like a toy. For me it was the same when the white iMacs came out and then switched to Intel. That was my jumping in point and I’ve never looked back. The iMac and iPod were amazing gateway devices.
• Panic Blog » The 2017 Panic Report
  Love reading this each year. Feel we should do something similar at work…year in review and whats next.
• It’s Impossible to Prove Your Laptop Hasn’t Been Hacked. I Spent Two Years Finding Out.
  Scary that an expert can’t confirm his laptop hasn’t been hacked.
• Subscription hell | TechCrunch
  I have too many subscriptions and there’s no end in sight. Want all the content then prepare to pay for more and more separate subscriptions. I’ve a few software subs as well but some app’s I’ve just abandoned as the ROI just isn’t there to justify a subscription. Tricky.
• The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code – Bloomberg
  Bill Benter did the impossible: He wrote an algorithm that couldn’t lose at the track. Close to a billion dollars later, he tells his story for the first time.
  Who knew! Great read.
• Lobe – Deep Learning Made Simple
  Lobe is an easy-to-use visual tool that lets you build custom deep learning models, quickly train them, and ship them directly in your app without writing any code.
  The thirteen minute demo video is a must watch. Looks to have a lot of power behind a really simple interface.
• Childish Gambino’s ‘This is America’ Gives a Haunting Take On Our Country’s Toxic Cycle of Violence – Black Nerd Problems
  Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino unleashes a gorgeous visuals of black joy and hot take on America’s cycle of violence in ‘This is America’
  Powerful. You need to watch this.