Every Friday is a good Friday: TGIF! (28)
Für den Teil auf Deutsch bitte hier entlang :)
It’s friday again, the week’s (almost) over, and these are some things worth reading and watching, recommended by Team Hoodie for your weekend or a lazy afternoon. Enjoy!
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Open Source
*“I’m going to try making a living working on open source.” – *Zed: The next Phase
Dinner plans for all: How conference organizers can make newcomers feel welcome
“You are the Jedi, be careful with the Padawans.” – How to remove barriers while building tech communities
Coding
The Web
*“Unfortunately, your web searches are carefully tracked and saved in databases, where the information can be used for almost anything …” – *Sweeping away a Search History
European Parliament passes strong net neutrality law, along with major roaming reforms
Same topic: European Parliament leads the world with open internet vote
**Design
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On Alert popups as we know them today and the extra mile: a new kind of notification – Why iOS notifications are ruining my marriage (and UX solutions)
| Everyday objects in such beautiful design … that they don’t work anymore: Uncomfortable objects (project website | project description) |
The Rhyme and Reason Behind Post-it Note Colors
“I never realized the underlying geometry of the Apple logo is built entirely of golden ratio circles.” –
The Tech World and Culture
*“We realize that this crosses the line of “feeding the trolls” or giving attention to “bad guys”, but we feel it relevant for our industry. Our lives and work are completely online and we’re all highly susceptible to types of hacks and identity theft.” – *Podcast: One on One with a Hacker
When it comes to diversity, what does success look like?
Why some meritorious technologies fade away while others end up dominating the software landscape, and suggestions what can be done to fix that: Bodil Stokke’s talk on “The Mess We’ve Made”
The Business
STEM hiring managers often favor male candidates, says yet another study
*“Tarsnap (the business) is run with less seriousness than a 6 year old’s first lemonade stand.” *– What I would do if I ran Tarsnap
The (good) Life
A project attempting to match technical people of all disciplines with charities, schools, good causes and more with a technical need, but no access to the people who can help them. – Tech Pro Bono
Some very easy ways to live a more productive and higher quality life in 2014 – 5 Ultra-Simple Life Hacks
We <3
People don’t read, do they? – NPR’s wonderful April Fools’ Day Prank
8 places in Iceland you will recognize from famous movies
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music.” (Bertrand Russell) – Beauty of Mathematics, a wonderful video:
| ‘We Are Just Humans’: Portrait Project Highlights Ethnic Diversity – about the project | the project website |
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Die Links der Woche
Heute schon das Passwort für eure E-Mail-Konten geändert?
“Geheimdienste aus aller Welt haben von Edward Snowden gelernt, sagt Transparenzaktivist Friedrich Lindenberg.” – Ein Gespräch über gute und schlechte Leaks
Wikipedia-Redesign: So relauncht man 32 Millionen Webseiten in 287 Sprachen
Konkurrenz, Profit und die allgemeinen Produktionsbedingungen des Kapitals: Karl Marx erklärt die Netzneutralität. – “Sich da aufzuregen ist Doppelmoral”
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Schönes Wochenende! <3