Nullrouted Space

This will be the last of these posts in 2018! This week I recommend the article about streambait pop by Liz Pelly. Happy New Year!

• Recap: The 2018 City Manager’s Address by Neville Park
• It’s Time to Fall in Love With Stuffy, Crowded Subways by Aaron Gordon
• Streambait Pop by Liz Pelly
• The Cost of Living in Mark Zuckerberg’s Internet Empire by Brian Philips

This week we have yet another New York Times piece about Facebook.

I recommend everybody read it but *sigh* it is getting to the point of desensitisation with that company.

• Sexual Content Bans are Dog Whistles for Conservatism by suprihimbe
• Things I Like, Things I Don’t by Dave Cecconi
• As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants by Gabriel J.X. Dance, Michael LaForgia and Nicholas Confessore
• The Cheat Sheet: December 13, 2018 City Council by Neville Park

This week I really recommend the article by Will Partin regarding Artifact.

• The Cheat Sheet: December 4, 2018 City Council by Neville Park
• Optimizing Siri on HomePod in Far‑Field Settings by Audio Software Engineering and Siri Speech Team [Note – Most of this post is over my head but it has some interesting bits that I understood.]
• While we Blink, we loose the Web by Andre Alves Garzia
• Electron and the Decline of Native Apps by John Gruber
• ‘Artifact’ Isn’t a Game on Steam, It’s Steam in a Game by Will Partin

This week I highly recommend the personal essay by Amanda Hudgins and also the the essay about fear in video games by Andy Astruc.

• Recap: The Nov. 2 Munk Debate Protest by Neville Park
• Antitrust, the App Store, and Apple by Ben Thompson
• The Fleeting Magic of Scholastic Book Fairs by Marina Koren
• Holding fear in the palm of my hand by by Andy Astruc
• The Kentucky State Fair by Amanda Hudgins