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For twenty years Thomas Bangalter was half of Daft Punk. The bit ran so long that everyone knew the robots, and almost nobody knew the humans. In this conversation with Yana Peel, the human lays out the question that ended the robot years: I was asking myself after thirty years of playing with tools and technology, was I just a product of technology, or could I be a musician without any of that…
Picture someone you love using the thing you’re building. Your mom. Your dad. A grandparent. A sibling. Your kid. Pick one and put them in front of the screen. Watch them hunt for the setting you buried three menus deep. Watch them flinch at the notification you tuned until it was impossible to ignore. Watch them stare at the 2am error message that tells them nothing about what actually went…
Cleo Abram: How do you hope that this changes what people think of electric cars? Jony Ive: I would love to be clear. One point to make is that, for some reason, just because the power source is electric there is some assumption that the interface should be digital. And that’s a huge leap. I think it’s presumptuous. When you’re used to getting into a Ferrari and you turn the key,…
It has to come from the top. This is my experience. There can be rare exceptions, but the inertial forces are so strong in any organization. Organizations want to be mediocre on these axes. They entropically decay to the point where they’re situated at the atomic level to prevent progress. And it’s not anyone’s fault. It’s just an emergent phenomenon of local incentives.…
Introduction # This tutorial will show you how to create a simple theme in Hugo . I assume that you are familiar with HTML, the bash command line, and that you are comfortable using Markdown to format content. I’ll explain how Hugo uses templates and how you can organize your templates to create a theme. I won’t cover using CSS to style your theme. We’ll start with creating a new…