Il modello di sicurezza basato sulle security keys. Una lettura chiarificatrice visto che ne stanno arrivando di nuovi modelli e che il tema della sicurezza è diventato sempre più importante.

Money quote: "This is why I keep using words like “transformative,” “revolutionary,” and “lit” (not so much anymore): SKs basically shrink your threat model from “anyone anywhere in the world who knows your password” to “people in the room with you right now.” Huge!"

https://medium.com/@mrisher_2499/phishing-and-security-keys-b5c8e8e26931?sk=1c1d4ec63df28f4da3971b6508e04d6d

Siamo entrati in un’epoca di collaborazione, in cui devono essere cambiati una serie di parametri al modo con il quale lavoriamo. I problemi sono cambiati, ma anche i saperi, le aziende e le persone devono cambiare. Per questo al lavoro (e non solo) si passa sempre più tempo a parlare in gruppo anziché a lavorare da soli - per parte di quel ruolo ci saranno le macchine, probabilmente. A me viene un dubbio: e se essere freelance fosse anche un modo per riuscire a fare le cose, anziché solo a sfuggire alla burocrazia e alle persone il cui lavoro è inserirsi nel lavoro di altre persone? Intanto qui di seguito si parla di come sono fatti - o meglio, come dovrebbero essere fatti - i gruppi.

Money quote: “The complexity of modern problems often precludes any one person from fully understanding them. Factors contributing to rising obesity levels, for example, include transportation systems and infrastructure, media, convenience foods, changing social norms, human biology and psychological factors. Designing an aircraft carrier, to take another example, requires knowledge of nuclear engineering, naval architecture, metallurgy, hydrodynamics, information systems, military protocols, the exercise of modern warfare and, given the long building time, the ability to predict trends in weapon systems.”

https://aeon.co/ideas/why-hiring-the-best-people-produces-the-least-creative-results

Secondo alcuni Instagram sta morendo, o almeno ha perso il suo significato originario (e la sua demografia sta cambiando drammaticamente, mentre le foto sono sostanzialmente tutte uguali). Secondo altri, ha creato un mercato che sta cambiando la moda e la società. Sembrano ragionamenti nuovi, ma se ne parla da quasi cinque anni. E a schioppare invece è Twitter (forse).

Money quote: "Dear Frances is one of a growing number of brands that might be considered “Instagram famous”. You won’t have seen it on the high street but, one way or another, it may have become a regular feature on your feed. While platforms such as Asos offer a much larger and more easily searchable catalogue of clothes, their items are invariably photographed in a studio, against a white background. Instagram brands, on the other hand, specialise in showcasing their wares “in the wild”, or within a stylised set-up that fits their overarching vision of how potential customers might aspire to dress. It offers the opportunity for brands to convey not just a single “lewk”, but a whole moodboard to Insta-fashion fans."

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2019/mar/31/squaring-up-how-instagram-fashion-is-changing-the-way-we-shop

Il mio articolo sulla serie del momento per Fumettologica

Perché “The Last of Us” è la serie tv del momento
👉 https://bit.ly/3lrxFWN

Cloudflare, zitta zitta, combatte la sua battaglia anche con Google e le pagine AMP (che adesso stanno cambiando, ma questa è la parte lunga della storia che segue)

Money quote: "After speaking with publishers and with Internet users, we have decided not to charge for AMP Real URL. This is not because our customers haven’t been excited or willing to pay for it, AMP makes up a huge component of many site’s traffic. Our motivation is the same as for offering CDN or SSL services to millions of customers free of charge, we are here to help build a better Internet and improving AMP is a huge step in that direction. We believe AMP Real URL is a technology which will fundamentally change the mobile web for the better and should be adopted by every AMP-supporting site. We do have another motive: we are hoping that this will motivate potential customers who value AMP to choose Cloudflare."

https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-amp-real-url/

Un tentativo basato sulla statistica per capire perché i progetti software richiedono più tempo di quanto non venga previsto

Money quote: "Anyone who built software for a while knows that estimating how long something is going to take is hard. It’s hard to come up with an unbiased estimate of how long something will take, when fundamentally the work in itself is about solving something. One pet theory I’ve had for a really long time, is that some of this is really just a statistical artifact."

https://erikbern.com/2019/04/15/why-software-projects-take-longer-than-you-think-a-statistical-model.html

Due fumetti di Zio Paperone di Don Rosa non saranno più ripubblicati per scelta di Disney. Con il rischio che la Saga di Paperone de’ Paperoni non venga mai più ristampata integralmente. E ora si teme anche la censura di alcune storie di Carl Barks.
Tutti i dettagli: https://bit.ly/3lFlMfS

La fine del binge watching: ecco cosa ne penso - la mia rubrica su Fumettologica

https://fumettologica.it/2023/02/la-fine-del-binge-watching/

Il problema che segue non si applica solo al design industriale, penso, ma in quell'ambito è spettacolare. Abbiamo strumenti pensati per funzionare in un modo diverso da come servirebbe. Soprattutto a chi lavora a molto progetti differenti per committenti diversi.

Money quote: "Libraries in applications like Sketch, Figma and Adobe 😆 work well for product designers but much less so for agency designers.

To understand why, let me explain the difference between product and agency designers. Product designers are people who work on a single, or a couple of products that their company creates. Think of the design team at Airbnb or indeed, companies like Sketch itself. These designers might have a single design system or style guide that they work from, with a single or couple of projects built on top of this design system.
Agency designers on the other hand are the designers that work in web agencies, where at any time they might be working on projects for half a dozen clients, each with a different design system (if at all) or style guide and varying levels of design maturity. These designers switch between projects often and might even have to hand over assets to a new designer depending on their project planning."

https://kilianvalkhof.com/2019/design/what-design-tools-get-wrong

Come si fa ricerca? Di solito si parte dal progetto, ma è un problema perché questo diminuisce drasticamente il tasso di innovazione: i progetti vengono approvati da persone competenti nella materia che hanno già idee molto chiare su quali siano le basi del sistema. Invece, bisognerebbe approcciare più spesso il problema in un altro modo: partire dalle persone, fidarsi, e lasciare che vadano avanti anche quando non capiamo di cosa si stanno occupando. Fino agli anni Sessanta l'informatica e internet sono andate avanti così. Poi tutto è diventato un gigantesco collo di bottiglia. E le cose non migliorano certo con l'università - il posto dove si dovrebbe fare ricerca di base - che si è trasformata in un giochino per totalizzare i punteggi più alti nelle metriche predefinite.

Money quote: "Alan and Vishal take a “People, not projects” approach to research, and showed great trust in hiring and funding us in a way that wasn’t attached to any particular project or outcome. I’ve since come to better understand their view on pure, long-horizon research. If you’re looking to invent entirely new ideas, you can’t define your research within the bounds of existing ideas. You have to choose people to trust, and then trust them. You have to support them even when you don’t quite understand what they’re doing."

https://theartofresearch.org/a-history/

Questa è una storia su come essere un po' meglio organizzati possa fare una grande differenza. Oppure, su come si fosse drammaticamente disorganizzati fino a ieri. Gli ospedali scozzesi aggiungono una lista di dodici cose da fare dopo le operazioni e le morti crollano in maniera spettacolare.

Money quote: "A study indicated a 37% decrease since 2008, which it attributed to the implementation of a safety checklist.
The 19-item list - which was created by the World Health Organization - is supposed to encourage teamwork and communication during operations.

The death rate fell to 0.46 per 100 procedures between 2000 and 2014, analysis of 6.8m operations showed."

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-47953541

Il libro dei libri del figliastro di Cristoforo Colombo è una delle più grandi risorse della storia dell'editoria del trapassato remoto che ci sia mai capitata. Una scoperta enorme. Altro che "Nome della rosa"

Money quote: "The Libro de los Epítomes manunoscript, which is more than a foot thick, contains more than 2,000 pages and summaries from the library of Hernando Colón, the illegitimate son of Christopher Columbus who made it his life’s work to create the biggest library the world had ever known in the early part of the 16th century. Running to around 15,000 volumes, the library was put together during Colón’s extensive travels. Today, only around a quarter of the books in the collection survive and have been housed in Seville Cathedral since 1552."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/10/extraordinary-500-year-old-library-catalogue-reveals-books-lost-to-time-libro-de-los-epitomes

È morto Leiji Matsumoto, il creatore di Capitan Harlock
Grazie di tutto, leggeda.
👉 https://bit.ly/3xBmLAt

Se giocare a flipper è la vostra cosa, Chicago è la vostra città

Money quote: "If a baseball game is like a pot brownie—a bright, lackadaisical buzz—tournament pinball is an acid trip: sweaty, 12 hours long, and seemingly devoid of narrative structure. It’s not for everyone. I’d done some research, so I thought I had a handle on the basics: Score as many points as possible by shooting the ball at the lit areas on the playfield, hit enough shots to complete the “mode” (the pinball version of a quest), and complete all the modes to achieve a “multiball” (when several balls shoot out over the playfield at once). Do it fast enough to earn a “jackpot” for additional multipliers on every shot and do it all without letting the ball slip through the flippers or drop down the side, known as “draining.” But within that basic framework, things get complicated quickly. Every machine has different shots to make, different ways the modes affect gameplay, and different quirks that can sabotage the best struck shots."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/chicago-competitive-pinball

In questo momento della mia vita non ho molto tempo per giocarci. Ma giuro che, se potessi, un giro in questo vecchio simulatore di solitudine me lo farei. (Il che, se non si fosse capito, è un paradosso)

Money quote: "Things We Lost in the Flood is a new, free-to-play indie MMO with a brilliant twist: It's a massively multiplayer "loneliness simulator" where each player is set adrift on a boat in a post-apocalyptic world that's been flooded over. So instead of forming into groups or communicating via chat or instant message, players can write and send messages in bottles for other players to find. Some of those messages can advance the game (more on that below), or simply just be personal expressions, anonymously shared and set adrift into the pixelated sea."

https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2019/06/things-we-lost-in-the-flood-mmo-indie-game.html

Sopravvalutiamo sempre quello che secondo noi è il giusto progresso da fare da un anno all'altro, e invece sottovalutiamo di brutto l'effettivo progresso nel medio-lungo periodo. Vedi queste foto, ad esempio.

Money quote: "In 2005, I visited Universal Studios Orlando and took photos with my Treo smartphone. Last week, I went to Universal Studios Hollywood and took them with my iPhone 14. See if you can see tell which photo is which."

https://twitter.com/harrymccracken/status/1627083774700957696

La direzione di Mazda è esattamente opposta a quella di Tesla: togliere gli schermi in generale e quelli touch in particolare, e mettere invece tanti controlli meccanici. Potrebbe avere senso.

Money quote: "“Doing our research, when a driver would reach towards a touch-screen interface in any vehicle, they would unintentionally apply torque to the steering wheel, and the vehicle would drift out of its lane position,” said Matthew Valbuena, Mazda North America’s lead engineer for HMI and infotainment.

“And of course with a touchscreen you have to be looking at the screen while you’re touching...so for that reason we were comfortable removing the touch-screen functionality,” he added."

https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1121372_why-mazda-is-purging-touchscreens-from-its-vehicles

A metà tra l'aiuto-aiuto e il pistolotto filosofico, ecco a voi la ricetta per la grandezza. Niente di meno.

Money quote: "Over the years, we’ve all encountered our fair share of successes and failures. As I’ve acquired more of both under my name, I’ve started to contemplate which experiences were truly “great” and why.

Interestingly enough, I realized that it was not the sporadic highs that were exceptional, but instead the long hauls; the sequences of events that seemed minimal at each juncture, but compounded into major gains. This led me to think further about what greatness truly means. I’ve come to learn that it’s not about overnight successes or flashes of excellence, but periods of repeatable habits.

Perhaps “great’, is just “good”, but repeatable."

https://blog.stephsmith.io/how-to-be-great/

Se quest'estate volete farvi una giratina sulla Luna, questa pagina creata a suo tempo per celebrare l'anniversario utilizza materiale originale dell'epoca per ricostruire una interessante "retro" versione della missione Apollo 11.

Money quote: "A real-time journey through the first landing on the Moon

This website consists entirely of original historical mission material"

https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/

Al posto del numero di telefono, da qualche anno è nata la moda di scambiarsi il nome dell'account Instagram. Ah, i giovani.

Money quote: "Crucially, Instagram provides much more context—and conversation fodder—than a random string of 10 digits. Because iMessage and SMS don’t come with public profiles, when someone texts you from a number outside your contacts, you have little to no information on who that person is or where you met. Sometimes people will provide this information themselves via text, but often you’re left guessing.

But adding people on Instagram is like scanning a digital business card into your address book. You get their full name and bio, and a direct line of contact through Instagram DM. Plus, you have the added benefit of scrolling back on their profile for additional context on who they are and what they’re into."

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/why-everyone-gives-out-their-instagram-handle/585916/