markjgsmith

2020/01/03 #

Today’s links:

  • How the Digg team was acquihired - Great writeup of the process and difficulties that unfolded during the Digg aquihire some years agolethain.com #

  • Hacker News Rankings - Shows the position of articles over timehnrankings.info #

  • How travel narrative blogging has changed over the last decade, and where to find great travel reads - A great end of decade review from James Clark in the travel blogging space, it's interesting to see how things have changed over the past 10 years, running a blog and having your own domain is still a good path even with all the social mediawww.nomadicnotes.com #

  • Thank You (2019 Edition) - Chris Coyier does a year review of the csstricks website, interesting to see how everything breaks down, and also which areas they will be focusing on next yearcss-tricks.com #

  • Automating the Date On Your Footer - This article made me chuckle because I just had to update this earlier, yep will most likely get it automated at some stage, but there was also something satisfying about manually typing 2020 :)dev.to #

  • Power, precarity and white-hot anger - what I learned in a decade in journalism - The author worked at gawker.com, which had quite a reputation at the time, his article is a rather scathing commentary about what it’s really like to be a journalistwww.theguardian.com #

  • The end of decade Talk Show podcast - Not only was there some great commentary about a lot of the achievements of the last 10 years, but some very interesting angles on products that I usually pay little attention to - Also a great example of why long form podcasting, where people can take it slow, can result in very high quality contentdaringfireball.net #

  • Jimmy Iovine the record executive who moved from record label Interscope to Apple, after selling Beats, a company he founded with Dr Dre, looks back at the decade in the music businesswww.nytimes.com #

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