This post is long overdue. I started writing it several times but I have never been focused enough to do it. As with writing on my blog, also my exercising has slowed down.
The previous diary entry ended with strumming rhythms and changing between the C, F and G chords. I was struggling with both. Not anymore. Despite the fact I learned just one new chord (G7), I feel much more confident playing.
Waltz time. I casually played How much is that Doggie in the Window? without a strumming pattern, which makes it quite boring. I joked that, being Italian, Waltz is in my blood. It might be different now but when I was younger it was impossible not to come across this genre, especially during the summer. I find it easy to follow the rhythm, but successfully adding a strumming pattern will take some time.
In May I lost someone important, and I thought playing music would help me overcome my grief. I was wrong. It was too early, as I noticed my mind and hands being utterly out of sync. This has shown me that there are optimal conditions in which I operate well, and that creativity cannot be summoned at will in every situation.
Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word. They’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments, closer kin to the industrial farming of the cattle feedlot or battery chicken farms that madden the creatures trapped within.
Maria Farrell and Robin Berjon argue that the internet needs to be diversified in order to end its monopolies. They draw a beautiful parallel between the internet and a healthy forest, indicating a framework and a plan on how to get there. A long, insightful and hopeful read that I thoroughly enjoyed.
🔗 Read We need to rewild the internet on Noema Magazine
We are wasting our collective time and talent making things that have no value. That sucks.
Louie Mantia, Jr. points out we’ve become distracted. We have let Tech become what it is now, an industry that sells nothing.
🔗 Read Distracted on LMNT Blog
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Software has never looked cooler, but user interface design and user experience have taken a sharp turn for the worse.
Form has taken over funtionality and substance, contravening the rules of good design. The evidence is in front of our eyes.
🔗 Read The decline of the user interface on InfoWorld
[…] they profess to make a website more accessible, but do little-to-nothing of any real use; in fact, they can actually hinder a disabled user’s experience of a website!
Some companies are selling solutions that promise to make websites accessible via a few lines of code. If it sounds too good to be true, it is. These solutions don’t work. Who are they for, then?
🔗 Read Accessibility overlays are not for disabled people on tempertemper
Rhythms and patterns are everywhere, and so is the possibility of harmonising with them.
A guide that I initially struggled to understand, starting with the title, which seemed an oxymoron. Once I read it in its entirety, everything fell into place.
🔗 Read How to set yourself free with ritual on Psyche