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Jonas Voss

Watched "Chair Times" today, a documentary discussing the development of the chair from 1807 until today. From luxury good, to functional object, to an art statement and back to luxury again. Well worth watching https://www.vitra.com/en-gb/page/chair-times. Via @kottke

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I'm looking at the following dashboards in an attempt to follow the development of the pandemic:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ <- General
https://coronainfo.uk/ <- UK specific
https://who.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/ead3c6475654481ca51c248d52ab9c61 <- WHO's Euro covid-19 data
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html <-JHUs
https://datastudio.google.com/reporting/f56febd8-5c42-4191-bcea-87a3396f4508/page/k1XIB <- somebody built this on top of the JHU data I believe.

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Anzeige von The Power of Virtual Maps

The paper discusses the development of maps and their function within society. It links the genesis of early maps with the current development of urban apps and the success of Pokémon Go. Thus it questions the practice of mapping and gives an overview over the critical perspectives of digital mapping, with a focus on Google Maps.

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I would think there was a lot to write about in a review of the 2010s in web development. Surely, a ton of stuff happened, no?

Otherwise, the decade reviews will be mainly on the personal level I think. I've seen a few pop up already.





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My $169 development Chromebook

If you are a Chromebook user, and you want to get a nice setup for developing on your Chromebook, this is my goto article. Goes through how to get functioning CLI environment, editor, ssh, etc. Termux is a brilliant app.

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Sobering for some: Silicon Valley rents

The tech boom has pushed up property prices in the Bay Area. Single-family home prices in San Jose and San Francisco have risen by 72% and 42%, respectively, in the past decade, compared with an increase of 10% nationally. Because of the high cost of living, a family of four with income of $105,350 or less is now considered “low income” in San Francisco and San Mateo counties, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Damn.

Jonas Voss

Running Jupyter and the Scipy stack on Android

I don't understand much of what I did to accomplish this, but I did manage to get jupyter notebooks and the ipython environment installed on my Chromebook, which as a beginner, is a really helpful environment for learning python.

jupyter makes it easier to read the notes from the python bootcamp course I'm currently doing from Udemy when I'm not online.

An IndieWeb Webring 🕸💍

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