11. Was he a humble guy just flipping houses, or a guy putting on fake concerts in the desert?
Or kind of a tool?
I’m only 10 pages into Jia Tolentino’s new book Trick Mirror, but I’m definitely excited for the next 10. And then also, the rest of the book.
I’ve somehow managed to follow her promo for the book kinda closely, so I heard her talking to the Longform podcast about the process of writing a book and her relationship with the internet. And then heard her talking to Ezra Klein about how the internet has kinda ruined us and through systems that place identity as the most important thing in the world, encourage us to overvalue our opinions, then making it really, really simple to share them. It’s a wild, way too relatable ride.
More positively, Tolentino also has a pretty excellent suggestion for how to behave online: just be a cool hang. Same as real life.
Day In, Day Out
Check Out This Thing
This is the best resume you’ll see today. Definitely better than mine.
You Merely Toggled the Dark– I Was Born In It
Try/Learn This Thing
How to overcome deployment anxiety using error monitoring.
Create a dark mode toggle in React. I finally got around to getting iOS 13 last night, so I am now fully a Dark Knight.
The state of remote work in 2019.
CrosSwords
Some silly things
A look back at the first 50 years of Unix.
You know the scene in the Princess Bride, when there’s a swordfight between the Dread Pirate Roberts and Inigo Montoya? Well, in that scene the two keep talking shop about their technique, presumably made-up stuff for laughs. Nope: Turns out it’s all legit.
VLOOKUP is dead, long live XLOOKUP.
A symphony for multiple iPhones.
Watch a sleeping octopus change colour while it dreams.
Finally, this week in relatable content: I can’t stop thinking about whatever is going on with Jeremy Renner.
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