Linked List: December 12, 2013

Thursday, 12 December 2013

On Medium 

Noah Nelson:

Sometimes, however, it doesn’t pay to view the world through a macro lens. The forest can be missed for the kerning on the font that spells out t-r-e-e-s. This is what I believe is happening here with those who look at Medium and go “Huh?”

Update: I read this piece twice and thought about it overnight, and I still don’t get it.

Browsing the Web on a 27-Year-Old Mac Plus 

Jeff Keacher:

Reviving an old computer is like restoring a classic car: There’s a thrill from bringing the ancient into the modern world. So it was with my first “real” computer, my Mac Plus, when I decided to bring it forward three decades and introduce it to the modern Web.

So great. Worth it just to remember binhex files.

(Thanks to Faruk Ateş.)

Instagram Direct 

What an amazing coincidence that Twitter started allowing images in direct messages two days ago.