weekly digest
newsletter

Each Monday morning begins with a short catchup and discussion on the articles, videos, resources, and games that we've shared with each other over Slack.

There's no structure or requirement for what belongs in the digest; whatever we've found interesting or would like to discuss gets shared. Below is a history of what we've shared.

can you centre the alien bird parasite?

It’s Centred That — Why We Should NOT Look For Aliens - The Dark Forest — Would you raise the bird that murdered your children?

do they eat meat in Icelandverse?

Dubai Is A Parody Of The 21st Century — Introducing the Icelandverse — Is Meat Really that Bad? — Stop thinking about flows, start thinking about objects — The 10 Websites That Track You the Most

believe in nothing, crave opinionated design

Right-Clicker-Mentality — Those “Get The App” Banners — Why We Crave Software With Style Over “Branding” — Your Brain on Psilocybin — Nihilism: The Belief in Nothing

privacy and everything else online is a lie

Is Your Privacy An Illusion? — How to Convert from Celsius to Fahrenheit in your Head — The Future of Images Is ‘Trust Nothing’ — Ending Anonymity Online: Britain's Plans to Change the Internet — Adobe uses copyfraud to preserve spyware

accessible advertising for dinosaurs

“Blind people don’t visit my website.” — What Dinosaurs ACTUALLY Looked Like? — A Blood Test for Cancer — The Imminent Collapse of Digital Advertising

bees are counting down to the apocalypse

Bees can perceive time — The perfect link — Can YOU Fix Climate Change? — Which Country is Safest in an APOCALYPSE? — Russian Man Tricks Bank Into Signing Ridiculous Credit Card Agreement — The mystery of the "same sky" postcards

Google’s good is not great

An update to how Google generates web page titles — Good is Not Great — Don’t use custom CSS mouse cursors — AI movie posters — Rick and Morty's Jerry Smith has just been hired as a creative director

grids to save the climate

Gridless design — How We Fix the Climate

honey monsters and how to save them

The ONE Problem With Modern Monsters In Film And TV — Bee extinction: Why we're saving the wrong bees

no soup for complimentary ocean plastic

Lorem Ipsum will destroy your design — The Secret to Making your Good Soup Glorious — Why recycled ocean plastic is (often) a lie — Why it breaks your brain to take a compliment

expired websites interacting with colour

Whatever Happened to 7 of the Most Popular Websites From the Last Decade? — 8 Bizarre Things You Might Not Know About Christianity — Interaction of Color

moldy retired bulbs

The "wet bulb" temperature — Why We Know So Little About Women’s Bodies — 7 Mistakes You Are Making About Retirement — Why Mold Is So Hard To Kill

washing the most religious countries

Scientists Just Figured Out How Washing Machines Work — What's the World's Most Religious Country?

boring dinosaurs making errors

What the Fastly outage can teach us about writing error messages — target=blank — The Day the Dinosaurs Died – Minute by Minute — The Japanese Art of Making Boring Tasks Better

Bob Ross building lego towers

How tall could a LEGO tower get? — Our Favourite Uses of Typography in Watches — The Bob Ross Virtual Art Gallery

how many plants fit on the internet?

How many plants — Is Instagram a Boon or Bane for Artists? — Map of the internet — Notion API — Measuring web performance — Theming Tailwind with CSS Variables

don’t cut your arm off for Netflix

Netflix genre and category search codes — What Does a 95% Effective Vaccine Really Mean? — FARFETCH Conscious Luxury Trends — Grand visions for a design system grounded in reality — What If Your Arm Falls Off Right After a Vaccine? — Five After Hours Habits to Help You Build a Tiny Empire, Quietly

a plague to end the world (of Warcraft)

That Time an Accidental Plague Nearly Killed Everyone in World of Warcraft — 10 More Figma Tricks I Wish I Knew Earlier — Stop using margin, use Spacer component instead!

millionaire arteries can be anything they want to be

On doing what life expects of you — We’re Tired of Reading About How You Became a Millionaire — Why Do Arteries Get Clogged? It’s Not What You Think — Why the US has two different highway fonts

happy emails in the Suez Canal

Plastics: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver — This Trick Can Take Your Inbox From Hundreds of Emails to Nearly Empty in Minutes — In Britain we process happiness... differently — Bill Bailey — Steer through the Suez Canal — The Yellow Fleet

bartering fungi trying to stay afloat on icebergs

This Underground Economy Exists in a Secret Fungi Kingdom — The Deadliest Being on Planet Earth – The Bacteriophage — This is The New Killer Virus That Will End Humanity — Meatpacking: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver — 5 Phrases You Shouldn’t Say to Your Tech Lead, Even If You’re Dying to — Iceberger

don’t hesitate on the next Facebook pandemic

The Best Thing You Can Do After You Eat Too Much — Why Your Second COVID Shot Might Be a Doozy — The Next Pandemic — Tim Cook May Have Just Ended Facebook — Why do we, like, hesitate when we, um, speak?

nuclear UX causing flight errors

How Many People Did Nuclear Energy Kill? Nuclear Death Toll — Airline pilots making in-flight errors say they're 'rusty' because of pandemic — Why I'm losing faith in UX

your penis and covid testing

5 UX Design Myths You Can Fix — The Case for LESS Sensitive COVID Tests — Yes, Covid Penis Is a Thing

Disney masking riders for safety

Why Even the Most Reasonable People You Know Are Bending Covid Safety Rules — How Group Sessions on Spotify Work — Disney World Awkwardly Photoshopped Masks on Riders’ Faces

Spotify loves seamless ZIP codes

When A.I. Falls in Love — The Covid-19 Baby Bust, by the Numbers — We need to stop fixating on designing “seamless” experiences — What the ZIP in ZIP Code Really Means — 10 Misconceptions on UX — How Bad is Your Spotify?

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