Zev Youra

Making stuff, mostly with a keyboard.

[Zev Youra @zzzev]

10 / 405 interchange, one line per lane. This interchange was designed by Marilyn Jorgenson Reece, the first woman to become a licensed civil engineer in California. Over 500k vehicles travel through it daily. #plottertwitter

[MIT CSAIL @MIT_CSAIL]

An IBM slide from 1979.

[Character Design References @CDReferences]

Animation by Milt Kahl*

[Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill]

Engineering a culture: https://t.co/9xYDB67O9B

[max @maxbittker]

excerpts of every time Brian Eno mentions KidPix in his diary

[Lea Verou, PhD @LeaVerou]

Realization: CSS Nesting also allows you to basically do "else" clauses in selectors.

complex-selector {
if-styles;

:not(&) {
else-styles
}
}

(if you’re wondering what this code is for, it’s for a bookmarklet to show element boxes for educational reasons)

[Elle Cordova @ellerhymes]

Fonts hanging out

[m@thew @TweetPotato314]

just realized that my hat probably thinks of me as it’s pants

[Mona Chalabi @MonaChalabi]

Please listen to this one hour-long episode on journalistic censorship of Palestine that came from a four hour-long conversation 🌚

[Rich Harris @Rich_Harris]

get used to every learning experience feeling like this. wisps of knowledge with nothing to stick to; a waking dream of things you maybe wrote; pleading with black boxes to do the thing the same as before, like the time it somehow worked for a minute

[dave @beesandbombs]

:)

[David K 🎹 @DavidKPiano]

🌶️ Sorry, I need to go spicier:

An enormous amount of capital, talent, and effort are being spent on making web apps just a little faster.

Performance is important, but we're pretty far into the diminishing returns curve at this point.

[Kylie Brakeman @deadeyebrakeman]

I actually really liked how they combined all three Oppenheimer movies into one film

[Maxim Leyzerovich @round]

“Apple poured billions of dollars into researching what is the single most suicidal sequence of monosyllabic sounds”

@bejohnce on @streamonmax

[Retro Tech Dreams @RetroTechDreams]

SimStapler (1996)

[dave @beesandbombs]

:)

[Maxim Leyzerovich @round]

we’re going to look back at how we designed the world around computers with the same regret that we look at how we’ve designed cities around cars

[Arvind Narayanan @random_walker]

TikTok users feel its algorithm is eerily accurate. But from everything we know about the algorithm, it's a pretty standard recommender system of the kind that every major social platform uses. TikTok's real innovation is something else.
Just posted: https://t.co/eP9KsgNeEr

[alex ✨🍂 @SomeHats]

would you still scroll me if i were a worm

[Zev Youra @zzzev]

When I get a garbage tweet in my feed that’s “based on my likes,” is that my fault or The Algorithm’s?