Notices by Tiffany (webinista@toot.cafe)

In case you've ever wondered "What became of all of paintings Bob Ross completed on his show?"

https://www.nytimes.com/video/arts/100000005865824/bob-ross-paintings-mystery.html

That thing where you really should close the laptop and go to bed but you're convinced that you're THISCLOSE to figuring it out.

Is there a Linux (Ubuntu) application that's equivalent to Sequel Pro (a GUI for MySQL)?

I wrote a piece for Smashing Magazine about SVG and pointer-events. My first for the publication. 😊

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/05/svg-interaction-pointer-events-property/

Also from that article: "The United States is one of only 13 countries in the world where the rate of maternal mortality — the death of a woman related to pregnancy or childbirth up to a year after the end of pregnancy — is now worse than it was 25 years ago."

Upward trend is almost entirely due to African American maternal mortality rates.

"Black infants in America are now more than twice as likely to die as white infants — 11.3 per 1,000 black babies, compared with 4.9 per 1,000 white babies, according to the most recent government data — a racial disparity that is actually wider than in 1850, 15 years before the end of slavery, when most black women were considered chattel."

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/magazine/black-mothers-babies-death-maternal-mortality.html

"Literally" literally means "figuratively," according to the dictionary (whether Merriam Webster or OED).

Dictionaries also report how words are used and how meanings change over time.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-literally

This is a delightful use of multimedia to tell a story.

20 years in and we're finally seeing some actual interactive journalism.

Haven't looked at the source code to see how they've done it, but it's cool.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/puerto-rican-art-hurricane-maria/

I think I've managed to lock up enough freelance work that to carry me through early May.

But if you or your company needs some front end (HTML/CSS/JS — especially if it's ReactJS) or WordPress development later this year, please reach out.

https://webinista.com/

@djsundog We've always done it, just not to everyone.

Abolish ICE.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-wants-to-be-an-intelligence-agency-under-trump

"Is there a healthy and acceptable level of work? According to US researcher Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, most modern employees are productive for about four hours a day: the rest is padding and huge amounts of worry."

Accurate. I max out at 6 hours of productivity. After that, it's diminishing returns, bugs, and bad code.

Although if I'm being honest, that decline probably comes after 4 hours.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jan/15/is-28-hours-ideal-working-week-for-healthy-life

Still processing this article. But I'm intrigued by its premise that depression and anxiety could have as much to do with your culture as with your brain.

"It turns out if you have no control over your work, you are far more likely to become stressed – and, crucially, depressed. Humans have an innate need to feel that what we are doing, day-to-day, is meaningful. When you are controlled, you can’t create meaning out of your work."

That's been true for me.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jan/07/is-everything-you-think-you-know-about-depression-wrong-johann-hari-lost-connections

Re that last boost: Mastodon is hard to get into without a guide and some focused usage.

The things that make it less toxic also make it harder to discover people to follow.

Without people, you just kind of feel like you're tooting into the void. It makes Mastodon a lonely place that you're less likely to return to. I mean, this is why Twitter and Facebook put so much energy into recommendations.

I don't think Mastodon should try to solve this problem. But let's acknowledge the hurdles.