Con il Fictional Design i colosso di internet si trasformano in delle specie di Casaleggio d’Oltreoceano.
Money quote: “At the core of speculative design, however, are unsettling visions, in the tradition of Brave New World, The Handmaid’s Tale, Blade Runner, or Black Mirror. Speculative dystopia is a tradition that can be traced back 200 years, to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, but it’s a tradition limited, mostly, to the world of novels and fiction. Speculative designers work a similar vein but do so in the world of designed objects, be they physical or digital.”
https://www.wired.com/story/the-creepy-rise-of-real-companies-spawning-fictional-design
Money quote: “At the core of speculative design, however, are unsettling visions, in the tradition of Brave New World, The Handmaid’s Tale, Blade Runner, or Black Mirror. Speculative dystopia is a tradition that can be traced back 200 years, to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, but it’s a tradition limited, mostly, to the world of novels and fiction. Speculative designers work a similar vein but do so in the world of designed objects, be they physical or digital.”
https://www.wired.com/story/the-creepy-rise-of-real-companies-spawning-fictional-design
Wired
The Creepy Rise of Real Companies Spawning Fictional Design
Speculative design tasks creators with building a better world through public thought experiments. But with companies like Google adapting the practice, it can feel like a taunting display of power.
Come riscaldare e rendere più umano il legame debole di una relazione digitale: cartoline automatiche. Un tocco umano reso squisitamente meccanico.
Money quote: “SumAll automates thanking your biggest followers, making your life easier”
https://sumall.com/thankyou
Money quote: “SumAll automates thanking your biggest followers, making your life easier”
https://sumall.com/thankyou
Cosa succede quando gli uomini tradiscono le proprie partner incinte. Perché -uno su dieci- lo fanno (e uno su cinque tradiscono in generale). Questa è la prospettiva post-femminsita.
Money quote: “But we are at our most vulnerable when we are pregnant. No one, other than our partner, wants us in this state of painful engorged breasts, stretch marks, and leaks in all the wrong places. He knows this. He has claimed us and he has no competition. This leaves us susceptible to his acts of sexism and misogyny. What can be more minimizing and belittling than being cheated on by your partner while pregnant?”
https://theestablishment.co/when-men-cheat-on-pregnant-women-c05dd96be736
Money quote: “But we are at our most vulnerable when we are pregnant. No one, other than our partner, wants us in this state of painful engorged breasts, stretch marks, and leaks in all the wrong places. He knows this. He has claimed us and he has no competition. This leaves us susceptible to his acts of sexism and misogyny. What can be more minimizing and belittling than being cheated on by your partner while pregnant?”
https://theestablishment.co/when-men-cheat-on-pregnant-women-c05dd96be736
The Establishment
When Men Cheat On Pregnant Women – The Establishment
It seems unfathomable - but it's actually quite common.
La matematica infiltra la musica, ma anche la musica influenza la matematica
Money quote: “The Greek philosopher Pythagoras, active during the 6th century BCE, might have been the first to uncover a quantitative relation between music and mathematics. Experimenting with taut strings, he found that shortening the effective length of a string to one-half its original length raises the pitch of its sound by an agreeable interval, an octave. Other ratios of string lengths produce smaller intervals: 2:3 corresponds to the musical interval of a fifth (so called because it is the fifth note up the scale from the base note); 3:4 corresponded to a fourth; and so on. Pythagoras also discovered that multiplying two ratios is equivalent to adding their intervals: (2:3) x (3:4) = 1:2, so a fifth plus a fourth equals an octave. In doing so, he unknowingly came up with the first logarithmic law in history”
https://aeon.co/essays/ringing-the-chords-of-the-universe-how-music-influenced-science
Money quote: “The Greek philosopher Pythagoras, active during the 6th century BCE, might have been the first to uncover a quantitative relation between music and mathematics. Experimenting with taut strings, he found that shortening the effective length of a string to one-half its original length raises the pitch of its sound by an agreeable interval, an octave. Other ratios of string lengths produce smaller intervals: 2:3 corresponds to the musical interval of a fifth (so called because it is the fifth note up the scale from the base note); 3:4 corresponded to a fourth; and so on. Pythagoras also discovered that multiplying two ratios is equivalent to adding their intervals: (2:3) x (3:4) = 1:2, so a fifth plus a fourth equals an octave. In doing so, he unknowingly came up with the first logarithmic law in history”
https://aeon.co/essays/ringing-the-chords-of-the-universe-how-music-influenced-science
Aeon
The chords of the Universe
It’s no surprise that mathematics has influenced music. But did you know that the influence goes both ways?
Il potere delle parole è quello di cambiare il nostro modo di percepire, rappresentare e quindi comprendere le cose. Dunque: e se ripensassimo le tecnologie come "instruments" e non come "tools"?
Money quote: “Using the word “instrument” instead of “tool” is a small intervention, but I think it’s an important one. The ideas and images that come to mind when you think of technology as an instrument are more useful than if you think of it as a tool. Instruments — I’m specifically talking about musical instruments — are a way to create culture.”
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/30/17405998/tech-instrument-tool-metaphor
Money quote: “Using the word “instrument” instead of “tool” is a small intervention, but I think it’s an important one. The ideas and images that come to mind when you think of technology as an instrument are more useful than if you think of it as a tool. Instruments — I’m specifically talking about musical instruments — are a way to create culture.”
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/30/17405998/tech-instrument-tool-metaphor
The Verge
A better metaphor for technology
We should think of tech as an instrument, not a tool. The words we use to describe our phones matter, and so a better word is "instrument." In this episode of Processor, Dieter Bohn explains why.
Un po' di giorni fa Apple ha formalente ritirato dal commercio i suoi router wireless, le basi Airport (che peraltro erano "ferme" da anni). A parte che è stata Apple praticamente da sola, nel 2001, a far partire la rivoluzione senza fili dei computer, va detto anche che le conseguenze sono non di poco momento. Così come la mancanza di visione in questa area.
Money quote: "If Apple wants to get out of the wireless router business — a business they helped kickstart — fine. The problem is that they could have — and I’d argue, should have — been fundamentally changing this business for the better, in a way basically no other company can."
https://500ish.com/errorport-a5c0e8783d04
Money quote: "If Apple wants to get out of the wireless router business — a business they helped kickstart — fine. The problem is that they could have — and I’d argue, should have — been fundamentally changing this business for the better, in a way basically no other company can."
https://500ish.com/errorport-a5c0e8783d04
Medium
ErrorPort
Apple’s latest strategic blunder with the death of AirPort
Scrivere un libro? Serve una traccia. Anzi, una scaletta. (E si parla ancora di Scrivener: dateci un'occhiata, davvero, vi conviene).
Money quote: "An outline allows you to have one place where you have everything you want to say, in the order you want to say it, and reminds you where you are in your story. It’s also the perfect place to move things around until you’re happy with the order and flow. It’s a lot easier to shift around random bullet points and sentence fragments all on one page, and seeing the big picture easily, than it is to move around half-written chapters in a book manunoscript.
There are also writing tools like Scrivener and First Draft which help you map out your book in different ways. Personally, I prefer to have a Google doc with lists and bullet points and short reminders of what I want to write. It is just what works for ME. You will find what works best for YOU. There is no “right” or “wrong” way."
https://writingcooperative.com/how-to-create-an-outline-for-your-book-1741e868a190
Money quote: "An outline allows you to have one place where you have everything you want to say, in the order you want to say it, and reminds you where you are in your story. It’s also the perfect place to move things around until you’re happy with the order and flow. It’s a lot easier to shift around random bullet points and sentence fragments all on one page, and seeing the big picture easily, than it is to move around half-written chapters in a book manunoscript.
There are also writing tools like Scrivener and First Draft which help you map out your book in different ways. Personally, I prefer to have a Google doc with lists and bullet points and short reminders of what I want to write. It is just what works for ME. You will find what works best for YOU. There is no “right” or “wrong” way."
https://writingcooperative.com/how-to-create-an-outline-for-your-book-1741e868a190
Medium
How To Create An Outline for Your Book
Trust me, you DO need one.
Interessanti sviluppi nello studio dei numeri primi
Money quote: "Early this year a software engineer, Shaun Gilchrist, reached out to me after reading a blog post of mine from many years ago, about my informal search for hidden patterns in the prime numbers.
The Ulam Spiral revealed non-random patterns, but they didn’t quite match up. Both Shaun and I had long felt there was a better way to wrap the primes that would reveal a deeper structure.
Shaun explained that he had developed a new algorithm (he calls it “Parallax Compression” or, “Deana,” named after his wife) for wrapping the primes on a plane, and visualizing their distribution, inspired by the Ulam Spiral. Shaun’s algorithm revealed an interesting glyph-like, fractal pattern in the distribution of primes, that to our knowledge, had not been seen before."
http://www.novaspivack.com/science/we-have-discovered-a-new-pattern-in-the-prime-numbers-parallax-compression
Money quote: "Early this year a software engineer, Shaun Gilchrist, reached out to me after reading a blog post of mine from many years ago, about my informal search for hidden patterns in the prime numbers.
The Ulam Spiral revealed non-random patterns, but they didn’t quite match up. Both Shaun and I had long felt there was a better way to wrap the primes that would reveal a deeper structure.
Shaun explained that he had developed a new algorithm (he calls it “Parallax Compression” or, “Deana,” named after his wife) for wrapping the primes on a plane, and visualizing their distribution, inspired by the Ulam Spiral. Shaun’s algorithm revealed an interesting glyph-like, fractal pattern in the distribution of primes, that to our knowledge, had not been seen before."
http://www.novaspivack.com/science/we-have-discovered-a-new-pattern-in-the-prime-numbers-parallax-compression
Nova Spivack | Explorer
An Interesting Pattern in the Prime Numbers: Parallax Compression | Nova Spivack
Early this year a software engineer, Shaun Gilchrist, reached out to me after reading a blog post of mine from many years ago, about my informal search for hidden patterns in the prime numbers. The Ulam Spiral revealed non-random patterns, but they didn't…
Alla WWDC non aspettiamoci l'impossibile (ma speriamo nell'improbabile) - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/alla-wwdc-non-aspettiamoci-limpossibile-ma-speriamo-nellimprobabile/
https://www.macitynet.it/alla-wwdc-non-aspettiamoci-limpossibile-ma-speriamo-nellimprobabile/
Macitynet.it
Alla WWDC non aspettiamoci l'impossibile (ma speriamo nell'improbabile) - Macitynet.it
Tutte le previsioni più o meno realistiche quando siamo al nastro di partenza della conferenza per gli sviluppatori del mondo Apple: nuovi Mac Pro, iOS, macOS, arriva AirPower e magari i Mac con processore Made in Cupertino
Perché poi le grandi trasformazioni si appoggiano su cose semplici ma fondamentali, pervasive. Ad esempio: il livello di alfabetizzazione e cultura generale di una nazione non dipendente tanto o soltanto da come è strutturato il sistema scolastico, ma anche dalla pervasività del sistema bibliotecario nazionale. Perché leggere non è solo un'industria, nonostante gli editori la pensino diversamente (e trasformino le librerie in ristoranti e tavole calde).
Non credo che i paesi del nord Europa siano il paradiso ma in questo caso la Findladia è veramente davanti.
Money quote: "“Finland is a country of readers,” declared the country’s UK ambassador Päivi Luostarinen recently, and it’s hard to argue with her. In 2016 the UN named Finland the world’s most literate nation, and Finns are among the world’s most enthusiastic users of public libraries – the country’s 5.5m million people borrow close to 68m books a year."
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/may/15/why-finlands-cities-are-havens-for-library-lovers-oodi-helsinki
Non credo che i paesi del nord Europa siano il paradiso ma in questo caso la Findladia è veramente davanti.
Money quote: "“Finland is a country of readers,” declared the country’s UK ambassador Päivi Luostarinen recently, and it’s hard to argue with her. In 2016 the UN named Finland the world’s most literate nation, and Finns are among the world’s most enthusiastic users of public libraries – the country’s 5.5m million people borrow close to 68m books a year."
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/may/15/why-finlands-cities-are-havens-for-library-lovers-oodi-helsinki
the Guardian
The borrowers: why Finland's cities are havens for library lovers
Helsinki’s state-of-the-art Oodi library will stand opposite parliament and boast a cinema, recording studio and makerspace. It’s a perfect fit for a literate nation taking public learning to the next level
Per chi ha studiato scienza politica e relazioni internazionali, questo articolo è un tuffo nel passato (molto ingenuo, peraltro). Cosa serve per costituire uno stato sovrano che sopravviva a se stesso, anziché collassare malamente?
Money quote: "Before answering these questions, it is necessary to define nation-building more precisely. It goes beyond the mere existence of an independent country with a flag, an anthem and an army. Some old countries (such as Belgium) haven’t come together as a nation, while other more recently founded states (such as India) have done so. There are two sides to the nation-building coin: the extension of political alliances across the terrain of a country, and the identification with and loyalty to the institutions of the state, independent of who currently governs. The former is the political-integration aspect, the latter the political-identity aspect of nation-building. To foster both, political ties between citizens and the state should reach across ethnic divides."
https://aeon.co/essays/why-some-countries-come-together-while-others-fall-apart
Money quote: "Before answering these questions, it is necessary to define nation-building more precisely. It goes beyond the mere existence of an independent country with a flag, an anthem and an army. Some old countries (such as Belgium) haven’t come together as a nation, while other more recently founded states (such as India) have done so. There are two sides to the nation-building coin: the extension of political alliances across the terrain of a country, and the identification with and loyalty to the institutions of the state, independent of who currently governs. The former is the political-integration aspect, the latter the political-identity aspect of nation-building. To foster both, political ties between citizens and the state should reach across ethnic divides."
https://aeon.co/essays/why-some-countries-come-together-while-others-fall-apart
Aeon
How nations come together
Nations come with a vast array of peoples, languages and histories, but the strong ones share three simple things
Bisognerebbe cominciare a parlare dei Mechanical Turks di Amazon e dell'impatto che stanno avendo sulla ricerca sociale, ad esempio.
Money quote: "To initiate a survey using MTurk, a researcher (a “Requester” in Amazon’s vernacular) establishes an account (http://www.mturk.com), places funds into her account, and then posts a “job listing” using the MTurk Web interface that describes the Human Intelligence Task (HIT) to be completed and the compensation to be paid (Amazon assesses Requesters a 10% surcharge on all payments ed: this surcharge has now increased and is typically 20-40%. Each HIT has a designated number of tasks and the requester can specify how many times an individual MTurk “Worker” can undertake the task. Researchers can also set requirements for subjects, including country of residence and prior “approval rate,” which is the percent of prior HITs submitted by the respondent that were subsequently accepted by Requesters. When MTurk Workers who meet these eligibility requirements log onto their account, they can review the list of HITs available to them and choose to undertake any task for which they are eligible."
Money quote2: "The sudden availability of a conscientious, diverse, non-student source of survey respondents has led to something of a golden age in survey research. There is no shortage of interesting, creative social science that has tapped into the power of the crowd."
https://daily.jstor.org/amazons-mechanical-turk-has-reinvented-research/
Money quote: "To initiate a survey using MTurk, a researcher (a “Requester” in Amazon’s vernacular) establishes an account (http://www.mturk.com), places funds into her account, and then posts a “job listing” using the MTurk Web interface that describes the Human Intelligence Task (HIT) to be completed and the compensation to be paid (Amazon assesses Requesters a 10% surcharge on all payments ed: this surcharge has now increased and is typically 20-40%. Each HIT has a designated number of tasks and the requester can specify how many times an individual MTurk “Worker” can undertake the task. Researchers can also set requirements for subjects, including country of residence and prior “approval rate,” which is the percent of prior HITs submitted by the respondent that were subsequently accepted by Requesters. When MTurk Workers who meet these eligibility requirements log onto their account, they can review the list of HITs available to them and choose to undertake any task for which they are eligible."
Money quote2: "The sudden availability of a conscientious, diverse, non-student source of survey respondents has led to something of a golden age in survey research. There is no shortage of interesting, creative social science that has tapped into the power of the crowd."
https://daily.jstor.org/amazons-mechanical-turk-has-reinvented-research/
JSTOR Daily
Amazon's Mechanical Turk has Reinvented Research - JSTOR Daily
Online services like Amazon's "Mechanical Turk" have ushered in a golden age in survey research. But is it ethical for researchers to use them?
Un Raspberry PI, una microcamera, una rete neurale, e tanta voglia di contare le api, intese come animaletti che volano...
Money quote: "the second thing was to decide exactly what i was trying to get the neural net to do. if the task is "count bees in an image" you could arguably try to regress directly to the number but it didn't feel like the easiest thing to start with and it doesn't allow any fun tracking of individual bees over frames. instead i decided to focus on localising every bee in the image."
http://matpalm.com/blog/counting_bees/
Money quote: "the second thing was to decide exactly what i was trying to get the neural net to do. if the task is "count bees in an image" you could arguably try to regress directly to the number but it didn't feel like the easiest thing to start with and it doesn't allow any fun tracking of individual bees over frames. instead i decided to focus on localising every bee in the image."
http://matpalm.com/blog/counting_bees/
Come funziona il lavoro delle grandi aziende rispetto ai progetti open source? In realtà lo dovremmo già sapere, perché ad esempio da due decenni circa Ibm pompa codice dentro Linux e altri progetti open source, ma è un processo abbastanza invisibile a chi sia fuori dal loop. Invece, un esempio che mi tocca più da vicino, perché uso il software in questione, è l'evoluzione del protocollo di comunicazione di Git. Interessante soprattutto vedere come funziona dalla parte di Google, che ha introdotto le migliorie che le interessano come azienda; Google infatti usa Git per la sua base di codice, che è enorme, e ha problemi di utilizzo e trasporto delle infornazioni, quindi vuole assolutamente un protocollo di trasmissione migliore.
Egoismo o altruismo?
Money quote: "To try out protocol version 2 for yourself you'll need an up to date version of Git (support for v2 was recently merged to Git's master branch and is expected to be part of Git 2.18) and a v2 enabled server (repositories on googlesource.com and Cloud Source Repositories are v2 enabled)."
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2018/05/introducing-git-protocol-version-2.html
Egoismo o altruismo?
Money quote: "To try out protocol version 2 for yourself you'll need an up to date version of Git (support for v2 was recently merged to Git's master branch and is expected to be part of Git 2.18) and a v2 enabled server (repositories on googlesource.com and Cloud Source Repositories are v2 enabled)."
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2018/05/introducing-git-protocol-version-2.html
Google Open Source Blog
Introducing Git protocol version 2
Non tutti sono in grado di raccontare la stessa storia. Helen DeWitt ci riesce perfettamente e svela il marcio nel mondo editoriale. Banale, ma perfettamente eseguito.
Money quote: “DeWitt’s ruthless honesty about the sausage making of literary production is no doubt autobiographical. She has described her travails in the selling, copyediting, and typesetting of her now classic first novel, The Last Samurai, as well as the baroquely harrowing ordeals with the publishing industry and the financial difficulties that followed. But the generosity and humor of these stories soften any sense of personal grievance into something much more interesting and complicated. The stories are devastatingly specific, and yet they serve as broad parables about the inevitability of being misunderstood, both as an artist and as a person”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/05/29/helen-dewitt-lacerates-the-literary-world/
Money quote: “DeWitt’s ruthless honesty about the sausage making of literary production is no doubt autobiographical. She has described her travails in the selling, copyediting, and typesetting of her now classic first novel, The Last Samurai, as well as the baroquely harrowing ordeals with the publishing industry and the financial difficulties that followed. But the generosity and humor of these stories soften any sense of personal grievance into something much more interesting and complicated. The stories are devastatingly specific, and yet they serve as broad parables about the inevitability of being misunderstood, both as an artist and as a person”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/05/29/helen-dewitt-lacerates-the-literary-world/
The Paris Review
Helen DeWitt Lacerates the Literary World by Andrew Martin
May 29, 2018 – The literary world is small. Once you’ve worked a few jobs in or around the publishing industry—I’ve been an intern at a trade magazine, an
Altro che non-luogo...
Money quote: “The airport is a metaphorical hyperbaric chamber of sorts, allowing you to decompress and slowly prepare for your return to the slippery surface of the real world. “
https://lifehacker.com/airport-time-is-a-welcome-state-of-limbo-1826421486
Money quote: “The airport is a metaphorical hyperbaric chamber of sorts, allowing you to decompress and slowly prepare for your return to the slippery surface of the real world. “
https://lifehacker.com/airport-time-is-a-welcome-state-of-limbo-1826421486
Lifehacker
Airport Time Is a Welcome State of Limbo
For many, the airport is a place filled with frustration and anxiety. But for others, the airport is a peaceful place where you don’t exist—no one does—and I love it. You’re allowed to do absolutely nothing, and sometimes, that’s exactly what the soul of…
Ecco iA Writer 5 macOS, il minimalismo fatto app - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/ecco-ia-writer-5-macos-il-minimalismo-fatto-app/
https://www.macitynet.it/ecco-ia-writer-5-macos-il-minimalismo-fatto-app/
Macitynet.it
Ecco iA Writer 5 macOS, il minimalismo fatto app - Macitynet.it
Aggiornamento gratuito (per ora) agli utenti della versione 4. Nuova libreria, localizzazione in italiano. Si rinnova l’app markdown per scrivere di più con meno
Il cloud mangia la banda? La risposta è la connessione privata on demand - il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/cloud/il-cloud-mangia-la-banda-la-risposta-e-la-connessione-privata-on-demand/
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/cloud/il-cloud-mangia-la-banda-la-risposta-e-la-connessione-privata-on-demand/
CorCom
Il cloud mangia la banda? La risposta è la connessione privata on demand - CorCom
Oggi la maggior parte delle aziende raggiunge la sua "nuvola" attraverso l’internet pubblica, basata su un modello “best effort” e non su livelli attendibili di qualità del servizio. La soluzione Console Connect di PWWC Global permette di avere connettività…
Le cose sono sempre un po’ più complicate di quello che non sembra. Anche quando riteniamo di averle capite. E gli effetti della realtà sulle proiezioni delle nostre attese sono strabilianti, vedi la vittoria di Donald Trump alle elezioni americane. Una delle chiavi di questa vittoria? Il declino dell’industria manifatturiera americana e la perdita di posti di lavoro. Ma se gli economisti hanno dismesso come populismo la crisi dei “blue collar” su cui ha invece costruito Trump, salta fuori che ci sono anche i dati che gli danno ragione. Solo che nessuno l’aveva capito.
Money quote: “But it turns out that Trump’s story of US manufacturing decline was much closer to being right than the story of technological progress being spun in Washington, New York, and Cambridge.
Thanks to a painstaking analysis by a handful of economists, it’s become clear that the data that underpin the dominant narrative—or more precisely, the way most economists interpreted the data—were way off-base. Foreign competition, not automation, was behind the stunning loss in factory jobs. And that means America’s manufacturing sector is in far worse shape than the media, politicians, and even most academics realize.”
https://qz.com/1269172/the-epic-mistake-about-manufacturing-thats-cost-americans-millions-of-jobs/
Money quote: “But it turns out that Trump’s story of US manufacturing decline was much closer to being right than the story of technological progress being spun in Washington, New York, and Cambridge.
Thanks to a painstaking analysis by a handful of economists, it’s become clear that the data that underpin the dominant narrative—or more precisely, the way most economists interpreted the data—were way off-base. Foreign competition, not automation, was behind the stunning loss in factory jobs. And that means America’s manufacturing sector is in far worse shape than the media, politicians, and even most academics realize.”
https://qz.com/1269172/the-epic-mistake-about-manufacturing-thats-cost-americans-millions-of-jobs/
Quartz
The epic mistake about manufacturing that’s cost Americans millions of jobs
Most people say that automation—not trade—is to blame for American manufacturing's decline. Most people are wrong.
Ecco Rog di Asus con il suo primo gaming-smartphone - il mio articolo per Il Sole 24 Ore
http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/tecnologie/2018-06-04/ecco-rog-asus-il-suo-primo-gaming-smartphone-143733.shtml?uuid=AEskH5zE
http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/tecnologie/2018-06-04/ecco-rog-asus-il-suo-primo-gaming-smartphone-143733.shtml?uuid=AEskH5zE
Il Sole 24 ORE
Ecco Rog di Asus con il suo primo gaming-smartphone
Dopo Nubia (Zte), Razr, Blackshark (Xiaomi) e Motorola, arriva anche Rog (Republic of Gamers) di Asus con il suo primo gaming-smartphone
Un po' di archeologia delle font, in particolare di quelle del Macintosh originale del 1984. L'articolo è davvero molto interessante, non solo per gli appassionati di tipografia.
Money quote: "Because a typeface is not just its pixels, but also its spacing, I wanted to look at the authentic source material for Chicago. That required some technical archaeology: the original Macintosh, released in 1984, was the first widely available computer that used proportional typography on screen and it had an entirely unique way of storing and managing fonts. (Standards like TrueType didn’t appear until later.)
I have some software background in typography, so I managed to extract the genuine 1984 font data using my 2018 computer. (The details of that part are a bit beside the point but are in the footnote at the bottom if you’re interested). Having got the font, bitmap and spacing data for Chicago, I used the same little program to extract all the other Macintosh bitmap fonts."
https://medium.com/@bzotto/hidden-sheep-and-mac-typography-archaeology-efce770da76c
Money quote: "Because a typeface is not just its pixels, but also its spacing, I wanted to look at the authentic source material for Chicago. That required some technical archaeology: the original Macintosh, released in 1984, was the first widely available computer that used proportional typography on screen and it had an entirely unique way of storing and managing fonts. (Standards like TrueType didn’t appear until later.)
I have some software background in typography, so I managed to extract the genuine 1984 font data using my 2018 computer. (The details of that part are a bit beside the point but are in the footnote at the bottom if you’re interested). Having got the font, bitmap and spacing data for Chicago, I used the same little program to extract all the other Macintosh bitmap fonts."
https://medium.com/@bzotto/hidden-sheep-and-mac-typography-archaeology-efce770da76c
Medium
Hidden Sheep and Typography Archaeology
Unpacking the original Macintosh bitmap fonts