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Toot of the Week
someone keeps undoing the dishes — @zens@merveilles.town
Internet
- POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world (citationneeded.news)
Molly White explains the benefits of POSSE (Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere).
- A peasant woodland (aworkinglibrary.com)
Mandy Brown explains why they decided to syndicate across social networks.
Software
- Cognitive load is what matters (minds.md)
Artem Zakirullin about cognitive load in software projects. This is a must-read if you write software!
- Inside How Stripe Crafts Quality Products (creatoreconomy.so)
Peter Yang interviews Katie Dill, the Head of Design at Stripe on product quality. Thanks, Jan!
- Creating Accessible Figures and Tables (dis.acm.org)
A guide to accessible figures (including charts) and tables, by ACM DIS (Designing Interactive Systems).
Cutting Room Floor
- ‘I love the whole atmosphere and can spend hours browsing’: how did bookshops suddenly become cool? (theguardian.com)
Sarah Manavis explains why book shops have seen a rise in visits by Gen Z.
- Standing desks do not reduce risk of stroke and heart failure, study suggests (theguardian.com)
Andrew Gregory writes about a study, which uncovers that standing desk are not as healthy as you thought. Thanks, Eric!
- Systems and change (anniemueller.com)
Annie writes about systems built to serve us turning into us serving the system and how to make a difference.
- How humans evolved a starch-digesting superpower long before farming (science.org)
Michael Price summarizes the findings of two papers, which show how early the salivary amylase gene AMY1 could be found in humans. Thanks, Astrid!
