Friday 3rd January, 2020 #
- Power, precarity and white-hot anger - what I learned in a decade in journalism - The author worked at gawker.com, which had quite a reputation at the time, his article is a rather scathing commentary about what it’s really like to be a journalist
- Automating the Date On Your Footer - This article made me chuckle because I just had to update this earlier, yep will most likely get it automated at some stage, but there was also something satisfying about manually typing 2020 :)
- Thank You (2019 Edition) - Chris Coyier does a year review of the csstricks website, interesting to see how everything breaks down, and also which areas they will be focusing on next year
- How travel narrative blogging has changed over the last decade, and where to find great travel reads - A great end of decade review from James Clark in the travel blogging space, it's interesting to see how things have changed over the past 10 years, running a blog and having your own domain is still a good path even with all the social media
- Hacker News Rankings - Shows the position of articles over time
- Hacker news analytics - Tool to monitor the performance of a hacker news post over time
- Why I’m still using jQuery in 2019
- How the Digg team was acquihired - Great writeup of the process and difficulties that unfolded during the Digg aquihire some years ago
- Jimmy Iovine the record executive who moved from record label Interscope to Apple, after selling Beats, a company he founded with Dr Dre, looks back at the decade in the music business
- The end of decade Talk Show podcast - Not only was there some great commentary about a lot of the achievements of the last 10 years, but some very interesting angles on products that I usually pay little attention to - Also a great example of why long form podcasting, where people can take it slow, can result in very high quality content