Notices by meetar (meetar@mastodon.xyz)

Love this from @brookejarvis:
Our Very Strange Search for "Sea Level"
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/26/our-very-strange-search-for-sea-level

IA link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240825190520/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/26/our-very-strange-search-for-sea-level

The article ends with a reference to the Okjökull glacier memorial plaque, one of the most pre-haunted things I have ever seen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okj%C3%B6kull

enjoying google's new "blah blah blah, just buy it" search results style (this is an image search for madras plaid)

About the 3D demo I made with my kid, and using new techniques, and giving up control for expediency, and internal imperfections, and some other things.

https://fjord.style/the-prototype-trap

“She wrote to a scientist about her fatigue. It inspired a breakthrough. Her dogged efforts lead to a new scientific discovery that may help others with long covid and other chronically fatiguing illnesses”

No paywall link: http://wapo.st/3Pem0G4

Read something recently like "Don't make it too clever, that attracts people who like feeling clever and they drive away everyone else"

... anyone recognize/remember this? Might have been in the context of UI/game design etc...