Jacob Jay

Peripatetic Brit • devil's advocate • spaces/systems/software • socent/web/ux architect • resilience artisanalism #coliving and smelly cheese… 🏗️

[Jacob Jay @jacobjay]

@levelsio Actually France has a fascinating alternative. Old people sell their homes but stay in them, getting a lump sum and (low) rent-to-buy until they die. The buyer (hopefully) makes a nice saving if they don't live long.🙈

[Jacob Jay @jacobjay]

@levelsio Cohousing, joint-tenancy co-buying and fractional are interesting alternatives. There isn't just one way. For nomads I'm vaguely starting to think about resurrecting this: https://t.co/AiVGUKsQ5N 2/2

[Jacob Jay @jacobjay]

@levelsio It's a bit dumb as a nomad who won't use much, and may employ #geoarbitrage for life. Sensible if stuck though still not great, except the cool upside a long time into the future—which will likely no longer happen (except in a few major metros) due the lack of repopulation. 1/2

[Jacob Jay @jacobjay]

@conycones1 @batwood011 @honey @MKBHD Stand-down is legal/compliance that shouldn't be needed if affiliate (retail/network) sites actually preserve first-placed cookie. Breaking contract has ramifications, yet any out of scope technical workaround is valid. But shouldn't be wild in the first place. Bad func design?!

[Jacob Jay @jacobjay]

@batwood011 I personally have no issue with exploits being taken advantage of, best way to get them fixed! ;) But it's incomprehensible to me that affiliate cookies could be overwritten in the first place. Maybe now too widely [ab]used to be worth fixing.

[Jacob Jay @jacobjay]

@levelsio Detail matters—especially in fashion. I doubt ML will resolve this soon because abstraction is fundamental. The vid shows matching cut, but hilighted seams/detailing, whether a structural or design element if not matching there'll be high returns. Nifty; fine in some cases.

[Jacob Jay @jacobjay]

@levelsio AppleCare isn't worth it unless one is actually careless / has too much on the mind to pay attention to incongruous dangers! ;) Only broken 1 in 15—was in warranty but fell off a coffee table, have gone bikepacking with. Magsafe getting stuck sucks, as does dented bone.

[Jacob Jay @jacobjay]

@levelsio Apple Stores have a certain amount of leeway and did my replacement for free after I’d worked in a mention of my first model [I'm ~old]. I would quite happily have paid to save my stickers though. Only had spare Nomadlist and Couchsurfing ones, the new is still a bit barren…

[Jacob Jay @jacobjay]

@levelsio For wellies! Some space used similarly is common semi-rurally. For the British middle classes the porch or conservatory. Else the steps! Even in cities there's vestiges of boot-scrapers (iron thing next to the front door). Fun profiling and responding to 'needs'.

[Jacob Jay @jacobjay]

@levelsio I don't travel anywhere without my super light linen towel! [corners replete with nutrients #h2g2] Those microfibre ones are gruesome, heavy, and stinky. Linen clothes don't last so long though, but cotton-linen blends are good.

[Jacob Jay @jacobjay]

@levelsio It's worse than endrocrine — artificial clothing fibres are a huge contributor to the hundreds of tons of microplastics (raining down!). From simply rubbing against things, but mostly from washing machines. Checkout linen, is lighter, faster to dry, and easier to cultivate!

[Jacob Jay @jacobjay]

@BMagistretti @joinstationf Did you try @daphnivc? L'hexagone is a wee bit insular and preponderant toward cultural expectation; e.g. one absolutely must say bonjour upon entering a place, as opposed first interaction lest one be ignored. Yet with attention thus gained, connection opens. #fraternité [sic]

[Jacob Jay @jacobjay]

@sirvoyltd 
You're missing a huge UX win at busy properties—showing 'next availability' and avoiding 'next' paging; easily cached upon bookings in backend. Better still if could be embedded standalone for landing pages. ;) «We're booked up until/our next availability is {x}.»

[Jacob Jay @jacobjay]

@guiperdrix In your blog post you say '3 main variables to play with', but omitted *location* as a pertinent one, which makes affordability realistic. You actually mentioned #rural #coliving (albeit highend) yet location also covers urban redevelopment. There's potential beyond city centres!

[Dror Poleg @drorpoleg]

“the entire residential operating system of property management and leasing [is] fundamentally broken, and fixing it would require replacing the entire system rather than putting a software patch on top.” https://t.co/0GiS0rqdTB

[Ana Andjelic @andjelicaaa]

"Thinking about 'edge' cases, minorities, and differently abled people is a more effective way to get to a design that reaches a majority of people" https://t.co/bhqpceoFQk via @inevernu's excellent newsletter, https://t.co/ICcsb7wXRZ

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

15 years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now, the real world is an escape from the internet.

[Jacob Jay @jacobjay]

«Chaos doesn't cause problems, it reveals them.» https://t.co/AgD9eTEzct

[Khalil @sehnaoui]

Coffee shop.

People next to me are loud and rude. They just found the perfect name for their new business.

I just bought the domain name.