In the interest of trying to learn #Figma I started recreating those Lego Computer #UIs that made the rounds recently. If you’d like to have a go at it, here is the link.
From the other side of the bridge interconnected.org
Walkcar is a car you can carry around like a laptop PC.
Collected Notes is another simple blogging platform.
Bear Blog is an extremely lightweight blogging tool.
Passive income for the soul “I now have several forms of passive income: writing, drawing, cooking, exercising, photography. Doing any of these things pays immediate dividends into my mind vault …”
Time for a Walk #walkdaily
Ships from Carnival, Celebrity, and Royal Caribbean now form a strange new archipelago a network of ships “spread out loosely in three groups spanning some 30 miles” west from the Bahamas
A crowd sourced reading list of foundational internet writing /via Laura Olin
Week 19.20: instrumentals, advice, stuff to love, and more
- I created a Spotify playlist of mostly instrumental music. Not saying it’s great, but maybe you’ll find something to add to your own “Please Lord, just let me string together an hour of focus time today” playlist.
- Kevin Kelley’s 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice is chocked full of great advice, but I think I like this one the best: “Learn how to take a 20-minute power nap without embarrassment.”
- Times Like These performed by Live Lounge Allstars (and the Foo Fighters) is great.
- Balsamiq Sans, the base font used in the venerable wireframing app of the same name, is now available as a Google Font.
- Some things to love
- An abandoned church
- An indoor garden
- “At its worst and at its best, the internet extracts humanity from users and serves it back to other users.” - Lurking
What is the job of a contact tracer?
I was reading my state’s Covid-19 recovery plan and was curious about the contact tracing part. Specifically, the job of contact tracing, so I looked up the job posting:
Are you a self-motivated, people person looking to make meaningful contributions through work that impacts the nation? NORC is hiring interviewers to serve as Contact Tracers for the Maryland COVID Link initiative. These Contact Tracers will play a key role in the state’s effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. This opportunity will allow interviewers to contribute to the fight against the disease while working from home as part of the Contact Tracing Call Team.
I’ve always been interested in how “things” (organizations, tools, industries, processes) work. I suppose that is why I dig my job so much. Curiosity aside, this “thing” may save our collective asses in the coming months.
Finding Our Way is a new podcast on design leadership with Jesse James Garrett and Peter Merholz
[What a beautiful map of California] (https://mobile.twitter.com/geo_spatialist/status/1251671066164056065) including clouds drifting off the coast
One Way to Potentially Track Covid-19? Sewage Surveillance sounds promising
The Sidewalk Weekly podcast is an interesting and light look at urban tech news