Javier Arce

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A mysterious third thing
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Javier ArceOct 30, 2023
Since I don't include statistics in my silly side projects, I gauge their usage and interest by shutting down the server and waiting for a message from users.
Javier ArceSep 13, 2023
I find it amazing that 'Send to Kindle,' which has been around for like 11 years and has the sole job of sending files to an Amazon endpoint, is so incredibly poorly designed.
Javier ArceSep 13, 2023
Someone please tell the people who are using Figma to share their design portfolios that this is, in fact, not a good idea.
Show threadJavier ArceSep 11, 2023

Chinatown (1974)

https://binocularshot.tumblr.com #binocularshot

Binocular Shot

A tribute to movies that misrepresent how binoculars work

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Javier ArceSep 8, 2023
Totally in awe of Fionna and Cake; every episode is a gem.
Javier ArceSep 8, 2023

This is cool: the MIT Media Lab is hosting a series of lectures on computational typography. Every Friday from Sept. 8–Oct. 13.

https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/lunch-lectures-computational-typography/

Lunch Lectures: Computational Typography – MIT Media Lab

Join the Future Sketches group on Fridays from 12 – 1pm ET for the Lunch Lectures Fall 2023 edition about Computational Typography

MIT Media Lab
Javier ArceSep 6, 2023
Product managers reading the news of the NYC Airbnb ban.
Javier ArceAug 28, 2023
mariafarrellAug 12, 2023

Coercion versus care; a routine event at Ryanair/Stansted shows the resources systematically put into punishing people instead of supporting them.

'She couldn’t ask for help to do her actual job. It was designed to be impossible. But she could press the alarm.'

https://crookedtimber.org/2023/08/12/coercion-versus-care/

Coercion versus Care

I was recently in Stansted Airport, queueing in a low-ceilinged, quasi-temporary structure to enter the departure area for a Ryanair flight. There were two queues; the ‘priority queue’ …

Crooked Timber
Javier ArceAug 28, 2023
maxbittkerAug 11, 2023
wrote down some thoughts and feelings on social media algorithms: https://maxbittker.com/friendship-feed
Friendship Feed | max-bittker

Javier ArceAug 24, 2023

Someone over at the site that shall not be named (let's call it site X) pointed me to an online copy of 'The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces' by William H. Whyte:

https://edisciplinas.usp.br/pluginfile.php/3923563/mod_resource/content/1/The%20Social%20Life%20of%20Small%20Urban%20Spaces.mp4