a more or less weekly digest of juicy stuff

• days with my father, this is so beautiful and heart-warming
• programming language checklist, hilarious
• how to talk to your children about their shitty taste in music, if my kids ask me why i'm so sensitive about this issue, i will tell them it's because shitty music comes from people who have money and who constantly stroke each other's big fat egos. i will tell them that, sadly, the art industries are run by people with neither style nor class, who care more for shock value that ultimately makes them more money
• user expertise stagnates at low levels, the problem is that the investment occurs immediately: users must suffer the interaction cost of navigating through obscure parts of the user interface
• why drop-down lists are bad for the user experience, a drop-down list suffers from a huge problem, the user can't see all the options they are presented with directly
• six stages of debugging
• german tank problem (wikipedia)
• openpgp best practices
• the great suspender, unload, park, suspend tabs to reduce memory footprint of chrome. probably one of the best extensions in a long time
• write less, fewer words create a more powerful message
• how to cite social media, mla & apa formats
• why it's safer if your pilot is asleep than awake, a new survey has found that pilots quite often fall asleep on commercial flights. but apparently we shouldn't be worried
• how many people are in space right now?
• the life and death of buran, the ussr shuttle built on faulty assumptions
• mocked and misunderstood, so when your company and services gets mocked and is misunderstood by most everyone, just smile and keep doing what you are doing. you might be on to something big
• delegate or die, the self-employed trap
• walulis sieht fern, one of the best comedy shows i've seen in a long time (german)
• streit der körperteile, by manes meckenstock (german)
• plastic, short film by sandy widyanata