There’s this myth of the brilliant engineering that went into Facebook. But they were building PHP code in Windows XP. They were hackers in almost the derogatory sense of the word.
Bringing back old technology to not solve a problem but for ‘throwback feels’ is just indulgence.
And a waste of plastic.
An interesting look into the Japanese sleep/work dichotomy with some beautiful pictures by Adrian Storey (Uchujin).
Also worth diving deeper into is /r/AntiFacebook. It can be both exhaustive and exhausting.
I haven’t seen “Expanded Memory” in a very, very long time.
Friends signals a harsh embrace of anti-intellectualism in America, where a gifted and intelligent man is persecuted by his idiot compatriots.
Beautiful insect close-ups by amateur Indonesian photographer, Muhammad Roem. With a splashy feature on BBC, he hopefully won’t be an amateur for too much longer.
[…] Creativity lost its way during the digital boom years. Almost overnight, online software meant anybody could create their own layouts. Our clients decided art direction wasn’t a precious craft skill any more. If their 12 year-old could crank out pictures and typography in 10 minutes, anybody could. A whole generation of digital native ‘designers’ was born.