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In 2011, Chinese spies stole the crown jewels of cybersecurity—stripping protections from firms and government agencies worldwide. Here’s how it happened.

When your commonplace book is a public database

This post is about performance techniques, so I hope you won’t mind that the site in question is not quite finished.

Your first WebGL lesson starting with the fundamentals

One of the more exciting calls I get as an artist working in the field of new media is for editorial illustration work. It’s rare. I most…

If you ever find yourself stressed, overwhelmed, sinking into stasis despite wanting to change, or frustrated when you can’t respond to new opportunities, you need more slack in your life. Here’s how slack works and why you need more of it.

After very publicly introducing a policy that banned political discussions from the workplace, Basecamp’s founders found themselves criticized internally and externally. So they held a meeting to quell employees’ concerns, and only made things much, much worse.

Secret codes. Legal threats. Betrayal. How one couple built a device to fix McDonald’s notoriously broken soft-serve machines—and how the fast-food giant froze them out.

Basecamp announced it would ban "societal and political discussions" at work. But the hardest conversations at work were about the company itself. Platformer’s Casey Newton spoke with half a dozen employees about the controversy.

After a year of lockdown, many of us are finding it hard to think clearly, or remember what happened when. Neuroscientists and behavioural experts explain why

After two years at Webflow, I am saying goodbye to more than just a job I once loved. I’m risking the most important possession I’ve acquired. The very thing that I’ve sacrificed family, friends, and…

The Design Encyclopedia is a vast collection of meticulously documented design tokens, components, page layouts, interaction patterns, and visualizations.

Cellebrite makes software to automate physically extracting and indexing data from mobile devices. They exist within the grey – where enterprise branding joins together with the larcenous to be called “digital intelligence.” Their customer list has included authoritarian regimes in Belarus, Russi...

We have heard it so many times: quality matters more than quantity. Yet, we struggle to apply the adage. We try to earn as much money as possible; to visit many places; to make lots of friends; to read loads of books. In many areas of our lives, quantity seems to trump quality. Thanks to ... Read More

To solve my typos, I had to become a typo.

In which I finally watch “Point Brake”

For a socially anxious and solitude-loving few, the pandemic has been a sort of strange blessing they don’t want to lose.

We don’t need the next big thing. We need countless next little things.

Human exceptionalism is dead: for the sake of our own happiness and the planet we should embrace our true animal nature

I recently passed the five year anniversary of when I started making generative art. This was also approximately when I decided to get “serious” about making art. It’s hard to take an exact count, but I think I’ve made 600+ generative works at this point. I think I’ve done okay for myself.

The undercurrents of the future. A publication from Medium about technology and people.

An exploration of the essence we share online, and how to cast our magical powers responsibly.

Interviews with 14 current and former employees paint a portrait of dysfunction and indecision as the publishing platform pivots again.

A rather length blog post, which attempts to address some of the concerns about NFTs from an artist point of view

Let’s make a scene and rebel against Big Tech