Kids Can't Use Computers – And This Is Why It Should Worry You

“He explains that the Internet used to be on his desktop, but isn’t any more. I close I.E. and scour the desktop, eventually finding the little blue ‘e’ buried amongst some PowerPoint and Excel icons. I point to it. He points to a different location on the screen, informing me of where it used to be. I drag the icon back to it’s original location. He’s happy. He can’t use a computer.”

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Battle for the planet of the APIs by Jeremy Keith

“How foolish of us, therefore, that we ended up using Google Reader exclusively to power all our RSS consumption. We took something that was inherently decentralised and we locked it up into one provider. And now that provider is going to screw us over.”

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The Internet of Actual Things by Giles Turnbull

“The rest of the bulbs in the house will dim themselves automatically. That’s how light bulbs mourn.”

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Tiffani Jones Brown - True Story

A resonant and honest talk from 2012’s Build.

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Clearleft Device Lab

This is one of my favorite things. It cheers me up every time I’m sad.

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