⊹ alberto giunta ⊹
@albigiu
∗ freelance fullstack web/product dev ∗ making ↝ inspotype.com ∗ prev ↝ @typefully / @mailbrew / @bendingspoons
Polarization moves, and you move with it
Polarization is not static; it moves along society's fabric.
Bubbles inside a shared space will grow & evolve until something breaks, and the bubbles become spaces of their own.
When new unarguable principles are found, new bubbles will be born. And we're back to square one.
twitter.com/marcoarment/status/1597223051904548870
It happened to other social networks (along different dimensions), FB being the oldest mainstream example.
For FB, it may have been users age (which then basically correlated with politics).
For Twitter, it's political views from the start.
2 hour build: an automated podcast
do you think it's okay (or legal) if I take essays written by interesting people, run them through a good text-to-speech engine and publish them as a podcast?
it'd be free, and they would be obviously credited.
- Searched for TTS tools. Ended up with Google TTS Wavenet voices
- Took Paul Graham's "Do things that don't scale"
- Cleaned it up a bit and generated an MP3
- Recorded an intro putting the iPhone inside the closet.
- Edited with Audacity
- Uploaded everything to Anchor FM
- ✅
Today's ride was cinematic af
I've been banging my head at making a custom behaviour for a rich text editor for the past 3 days.
There's SO much we give for granted when we *just type* on our keyboard.
And I also declare rich text is my new worst enemy.
And surfing green waves for the first time in my life was the least mind-blowing thing of the week. twitter.com/mikerubini/status/1464543271024312320
During University I had 2h/day train commutes where I probably studied, learned, and created more than during University itself.
And I've been thinking about this 👇 ever since.
Forced slowness by @frankdilo francescodilorenzo.com/forced-slowness
Still feels unreal but here we are.
I'm beyond excited for what's to come 🙆♂️ twitter.com/linuz90/status/1435158403496570882
And thank you for the fish
After almost 3 years I decided to leave @bendingspoons. This company gave me truly the best first work experience I could have ever wished for.
And of course, I basically gave them memes in exchange 👌 twitter.com/albigiu/status/1082397020399259649
i feel this. so. fucking. much.
fs.blog/2021/01/mistrust/