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From, Eli5
💼 Business
This week’s business is about our business. Because why should we always talk about everyone else’s business. And our business is that an app we built called Papyr was launched on Product Hunt this week! Papyr is a tool for all your online reading — made a little more social. Keep track of your reads, and discover what your friends are reading. Tag your reads with topics, organise them into collections. Personally, I’ll be using it to organise all the links I get sent for this newsletter... Link.
✏️ Design
Remember the last newsletter when I a) blamed our designer being busy on a lack of design news and b) kept talking about how non-existent my level of interest in design is? Well, this week our designer is on holiday but ironically did find time to send me this very conceptual, minimalist and meta magazine cover which is, I think, my favourite thing ever. Link.
🖥️ Technology
For our Javascript crew - The Curious Case of Null, how a value can not be greater than 0
, not be equal to 0
, but be greater than or equal to 0
, and why you should read The Javascript Spec. At the same time, if you do want to save yourself a lot of time digging through The Javascript Spec - this article has done all the hard work doing relational and equality checks etc. Link.
And a vulnerability that has a 1 in 4 chance of wiping your computer if your IP is from Russia or Belarus. Um, wtf? Link.
🕹️ Cool stuff
The new MVP of Twitter-bots is the gender pay-gap bot. Any UK brand that decided to use International Women’s Day as an excuse to tweet something, got a tweet back showing their gender pay gap. And there is nothing more satisfying than the internet exposing simple, black and white, hypocrisy. Link.
Enjoy the rest of your week!
Team Eli5