Backlinks 2021-05-15 I find Local First data storage to be an interesting and complex topic. For many kinds of apps, this is the ideal way to build it. But building local first apps is hard, as noted by Andy Matuschak. That thread is full of interesting bits, including flushout, “a distributed data model based …

A Star Wars Day TikTok TikTok makes remixing easy and people do all kinds of wacky things with it, including this guy introducing his girlfriend on Star Wars Day. Maybe we need masks indoors just a bit longer Zeynep Tufecki wrote just the other day about how the CDC was being timid with their approach to COVID-19. Now, …

A good coronavirus news day The CDC has updated its guidance around COVID-19, saying that fully vaccinated people can essentially return to normal life, with the exception of very specific settings (health care offices, etc.) and subject to laws and rules set by businesses. Also, top scientists question the need for …

CDC’s less than 10% is misleading The CDC reports that less than 10% of COVID-19 cases are from outdoor transmission. David Leonhardt reports that this is misleading. In truth, the share of transmission that has occurred outdoors seems to be below 1 percent and may be below 0.1 percent, multiple epidemiologists …

Critiquing apps, libraries, and code Chelsea Troy wrote a thread on Twitter about critiquing apps and libraries as you would art. Her four main points: Who is the creator’s audience? What are the creator’s goals? Who is your audience (in writing the critique)? What are your goals? She goes on to show how …

City Guesser Via Recomendo, City Guesser is a fun game in which you plot the location of a city or monument on a map, purely based on what you can figure out from first-person walking videos.

Backlinks 2021-05-09 Via Recomendo, City Guesser is a fun game in which you plot the location of a city or monument on a map, purely based on what you can figure out from first-person walking videos. 2021-01-24 Via Recomendo: The Emotion Machine has a large collection of quick and easy tips to boost dopamine, …

Relearning HTML Danny Guo relearned HTML and shared what he learned in the process. It’s a nice look at modern elements you may have missed and limitations the platform still has. Also includes a mention of WebComponents.org, which is a directory of custom elements you can pick up and use.

SQL.js accessing a database on a static host phiresky has wired up SQL.js to a static SQLite file via HTTP range queries and that is some fancy SQLite magic.

Sky Pool Pretty sure I’d be deeply uncomfortable swimming in the Sky Pool, which is 115 feet above a London street. The shots make it look like an impossible construction, but you can just make out a couple of steel reinforcements in one of the pictures. Fatality rate among fully vaccinated is not precisely known …