The Weekend Nerdiary Episode 1 | Welcome to the first episode of The Weekend Nerdiary! Sorry for being late to the newsletter party. (But I brought beer and fun links.)
This is an experiment. The goal is for this to be fun to read / skim / mercilessly delete on a lazy Sunday.
Tell me if you hate it. Tell me if you love it! Maybe it'll become a thing. | { Code code code code code } | Hotwire is an alternative approach to building modern web applications without using much JavaScript by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire. | | | Honk is another step in the constant march toward complete societal collapse in the form of an ephemeral messaging apps. But apparantly VCs are super excited about it and therefore you should know that it exists...for now. | | | Craft is a native macOS + iOS app that's a fresh take on the explosion of dynamic document creation + note-taking apps out there. | | | Spline is aiming to do for 3D what Sketch/Figma did for web/UI design - reduce complexity & web-native. | | | She makes it look so easy... | | | // Life, The Universe, and Everything // | 1. If you want to find out about people’s opinions on a product, google reddit. You’ll get real people arguing, as compared to the SEO’d Google results.
38. You have a plan. A time-traveller from 2030 appears and tells you your plan failed. Which part of your plan do you think is the one that fails? Fix that part.
49. Don’t confuse ‘doing a thing because I like it’ with ‘doing a thing because I want to be seen as the sort of person who does such things’
79. When dating, de-emphasizing your quirks will lead to 90% of people thinking you’re kind of alright. Emphasizing your quirks will lead to 10% of people thinking you’re fascinating and fun. Those are the people interested in dating you. Aim for them. | !! Truth is stranger than truth !! | Dally goods - Clever design (note the logo as you scroll on the live site.) | | | Fantasy UIs - Interviews with the designers behind the crazy UIs from TV + Movies (Black Mirror, etc.) | | | Fictional Videogame Stills - a pixel art project by artist Suzanne Treister from the early 90s. Made on Deluxe Paint II on an Amiga! | | | Color Therapy - by Paolo Pettigiani.
"Sometimes I feel the pure need to bring colors into my life as a way to escape from this unusual and gray moment that we are experiencing." | | | Harbour Hamburg I - by Alexander Schoenberg. These photos have a soft, almost videogame-like glow to them. | | | Japan Nights - by Aishy. Japan + my current favorite color scheme. How could I not include this? | | | Perer Tarka - is a London-based 3D artist that almost makes you want to spend 10,000 hours learning Cinema 4D... | | | "The Zukunft type family is an homage to classic didone typefaces. Though using traditional proportions, the design explores a more futuristic approach; the letters overall seem more digitally created, featuring triangular serifs, right angles and strict horizontal lines." | | | And last but certainly not least... | | | Thanks for playing along. Feedback welcome. If you enjoyed this, feel free to forward to someone else who might as well. If you got this from a friend, subscribe here.
--Noah | Copyright © 2020 NLH Heavy Industries, LLC. All rights reserved. Not into this? | (No hard feelings, I promise.) | | | | |
