VS Code, an application that is written in JS and runs in a browser, now runs in a browser

I can’t stop laughing at this.

Big news! Keybase acquired by @zoom_us . Our post about it:

Blimey. They didn’t hold back on this. —Read, if for no other reason than the incredibly detailed timeline of #coronavirus.

If this lede doesn't get you, I don't know what will. @davidmcswane's latest:

Democrat and former presidential candidate Mayor Bill de Blasio "said the police had used enforcement authority properly," @nytimes reports:

NYC subway conductor returning to work after recovering from COVID: “The conditions created by the pandemic drive home that essential workers keep social order from sinking into chaos. Yet we‘re treated with the utmost disrespect, like we’re expendable.”

If the authorities can’t satisfy the public’s desire to know more, others will fill the void with misinformation. Carl Bergstrom, professor of biology at the UW, is mentioned.

via Health News - The New York Times https://nyti.ms/2WLL65m

A new podcast from Ben Thompson and John Gruber

Who framed Roger Rabbit? Talking about Software Development in companies is about using frames. The prevalent frame is the that of the 'Backlog'. Thinking in this frame defines success as finishing the backlog. The pressure of throughput leads to engineering cutting corners and makes developers unhappy. Thinking in an 'Impact' frame leads to more successful company and happier developers. Stephan Schmidt

"I left work and I felt so deflated," one doctor said about an effort to counter misinformation he saw on Facebook. "I let it get to me."Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.

So @jimtankersley talked to Kevin Hassett about the whole "cubic model" mess, and long story short, I'm pretty sure Hassett owes @NateSilver538 $538.

All your questions about the pandemic, answered. Sort of. Mr. Eggers is a novelist and journalist. via Pocket

Axiom is a smart work assistant that saves you time by making the complex straightforward.

Collection of list-style-type examples and the code to display them.

A s*** font that f***ing censors swearing automatically

Six weeks ago, Ahmaud Arbery went out and never came home. Gregory and Travis McMichael, who saw Arbery running through their neighborhood just outside of Brunswick, Georgia, and who told authorities they thought he was a burglary suspect, armed themselves, pursued Arbery, and then shot him dead.

The Pandemic Is the Time to Resurrect the Public University via Instapaper https://ift.tt/3dsBHFd

By now I understood that the story I was telling about Val Kilmer, which I’d thought had been about a man’s relentless faith and optimism, was really about reconciliation: the squaring of two opposing things into something we swear is true despite all evidence to the contrary. Your beauty can sentence you to misery; Val Kilmer uses a tracheostomy tube, but he can talk; his brother is dead but only to our senses. Mark Twain despised Mary Baker Eddy, until you can will him into a dream where he doesn’t. God is good, and there are no ventilators. My beautiful friend has cancer, and the treatment exists, but it’s unavailable to her right now.

It seems many people are breathing some relief, and I’m not sure why. An epidemic curve has a relatively predictable upslope and once the peak is reached, the back slope is also predictable.

via Health News - The New York Times https://nyti.ms/2WLL65m

Important new CitizenLab report: "We Chat, They Watch: How International Users Unwittingly Build up WeChat’s Chinese Censorship Apparatus"

Clear, calming writing about how to interpret recent reports

Do. The. Work.

Bye, Amazon