Spaced Out & Smiling Presentations
Jamie has put his talks online, complete with transcripts:
Link archive: March 18th, 2017
google/guetzli: Perceptual JPEG encoder
Google have released this encoder for JPEGs which promises 20-30% smaller file sizes without any perceptible loss of quality.
Apple has given my son a hand! – the surprised pessimist
One of the accessibility features built into OS X:
Using Switch Control, and tapping a small switch with his head, my son tweets, texts, types emails, makes FaceTime calls, operates the TV, studies at university online, runs a video-editing business using Final Cut Pro on his Mac, plays games, listens to music, turns on lights and air-conditioners in the house and even pilots a drone!
Protest and persist: why giving up hope is not an option | World news | The Guardian
Hope is a belief that what we do might matter, an understanding that the future is not yet written.
Rebecca Solnit’s piece reminded me of something I mentioned a couple of year’s back when I referred to Margaret Atwood’s phrase “judicious hope”:
Hope sounds like such a wishy-washy word, like “faith” or “belief”, but it carries with it a seed of resistance. Hope, faith, and belief all carry connotations of optimism, but where faith and belief sound passive, even downright complacent, hope carries the promise of action.
