Linked List: June 27, 2020

Saturday, 27 June 2020

Atoms Everyday Face Mask 

My thanks to Atoms for sponsoring this week at DF. Atoms stands for quality, and the Atoms Everyday Mask is made with premium materials, combining innovation and comfort with the antimicrobial properties of copper, making it one of the most effective masks on the market. Available in a variety of colors, it’s breathable, washable, and reusable. Plus, Atoms donates a mask to a charity with each purchase.

Like a lot of you, I went from owning no face masks to owning a bunch. My favorite, by far, is my Atoms mask. Comfort, fit, materials — everything. I hadn’t realized this but apparently I have a big face — being able to order my Atoms mask in a size large makes a huge difference in fit. It really is my everyday mask.

You may recall Atoms from their previous appearances here at Daring Fireball to promote their ultra comfortable Atoms Everyday Sneaker. They’re available in quarter sizes — including the ability to order your left and right shoes in different sizes — to get a truly precise fit. They’re super lightweight, super comfortable, and very durable. I’ve got a pair that’s over a year old and they still look great. You can’t see them on camera, but I was wearing them last week when I recorded The Talk Show Remote From WWDC 2020 — comfortable shoes are a must.

Milton Glaser, Designer of ‘I ♥︎ NY’ Logo, Dies at 91 

“But I’m flabbergasted by what happened to this little, simple, nothing of an idea. It just demonstrates that every once in a while you do something that can have enormous consequences… it was a bunch of little scratches on a piece of paper!”

How to Remove YouTube Tracking 

Dries Buytaert:

After some research, I discovered that YouTube offers a privacy-enhanced way of embedding videos. Instead of linking to youtube.com, link to youtube-nocookie.com, and no data-collecting HTTP cookie will be sent. This is Google’s way of providing GDPR-compliant YouTube videos.

Now that Safari is including tracker counts and blocking ad trackers by default, I ran into this when I embedded the video for The Talk Show Remote From WWDC 2020 this week — it doubled the number of “trackers” Safari flagged on DF from 1 to 2. No more.

(The remaining tracker is Google Analytics, which I’ve been meaning to replace for a while. On it.)