Linked List: March 15, 2022

Tuesday, 15 March 2022

Business Coalition for Ukraine: Tracking Businesses Withdrawing From Russia 

A long list, growing longer by the day, compiled by Alex Algard:

A global coalition of businesses has united in support of the people of Ukraine and against Putin’s brutal invasion. As of March 15th, this tracking list recognizes 411 companies that have announced material actions to either withdraw entirely from Russia or otherwise materially curtail their operations within Russia. These companies want to be on the right side of history in the eyes of their customers, employees, and shareholders.

One thing I didn’t notice while watching last week’s “Peek Performance” Apple event is that while Tim Cook didn’t say anything about the war in Ukraine, he wore a blue sweater with a yellow watch strap. Subtle, yes, but no coincidence.

‘I Really Thought Death Was Upon Me’ 

David Letterman and his longtime producer Barbara Gaines browse through photos on Dave’s iPad.

(Also: I think this was shot using Cinematic Mode on an iPhone 13 Pro.)

U.S. Senate Approves Bill to Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent in 2023 

Reuters:

The U.S. Senate voted unanimously on Tuesday to make Daylight Savings Time permanent, a move supporters say would make winter afternoons brighter and end the twice changing of clocks.

The measure still needs approval from the U.S. House of Representatives and the backing of President Joe Biden. On Sunday, most of the United States resumed Daylight Savings Time, moving ahead one hour. The United States will resume standard time in November 2022.

Finally.

(Grammar note: Pluralizing the “saving” in “daylight saving time” is so common that it’s now accepted (and apparently either house style at Reuters or the mistake slipped past their copy desk), but formally, it’s singular. My mnemonic: there’s only one “s” in “DST”. Update: The Reuters copy desk has caught the mistake and singularized “saving” in the headline and article text.)

10 Years Ago on DF: ‘Chris Pirillo’s Dad Tries Windows 8’ 

Got a nice reminder on Twitter about this brief item I wrote 10 years ago this week, when Chris Pirillo published a video of his dad, a longtime Windows user, trying Windows 8:

Could be this has no predictive value regarding how regular people will think about Windows 8, but it’s an eye-opener regarding the risk Microsoft is taking by making essential UI navigation elements hidden until you hover the mouse in the right spots. People navigate with their eyes, not by scrubbing the screen with the mouse. It’s a few minutes long but worth watching for the payoff at the end.

Alas, “essential UI elements hidden until you hover the mouse” describes many of the changes to MacOS in the Alan Dye era of UI design. Or in some cases they may not be hidden, but just nonstandard, unlabeled, and lacking tooltips when you do hover over them, wondering what the heck they do.