166 / Systems and change

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Toot of the Week

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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!