The companion app, showcased at the middle of the page, looks surprisingly under-designed, despite LoveFrom having some of the best UI designers in the world.
Even their product names follow this pattern, leading to long and childish app names: "Mon espace santé" (My health space), "Mon espace France Travail"
This kind of soft infantilization, especially coming from the government, has always been rubbing me the wrong way.
Most of the kintsugi photos on Wikipedia do not state the date nor the origin of the object they depict, except for one, so I'm looking for something a bit more substantial.
I'm slightly doubtful that this is an authentic thing (by which I mean: "actually practiced in the 15th/16th centuries"). Most of the content around this technique on the web is not in Japanese, and even the Japanese Wikipedia entry about it [0] is quite terse.
Or maybe it's just that non-Japanese people have more interest in it than Japanese do?
If anyone has more knowledge about kintsugi, I would love some historical references which confirm that this technique was actually used in the past.
Hiding the standalone version purchase link helps them justify the move to a subscription-only service:
> The overwhelming majority of people (97% in fact) choose to subscribe to our new service and many of those who initially purchased a license later changed their mind and traded it in for a membership.
> tilde.club is not a social network it is one tiny totally standard unix computer that people respectfully use together in their shared quest to build awesome web pages
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Exactly, typography is a subject that is very dear to my heart.
And while I agree that it may be a personal preference, there is a side effect to using double spaces: layout engines consider single spaces the default for their line breaking algorithm, and sometimes, when using double spacing, new sentences start at a new line with a space before the first letter which, in this very case, looks weird and therefore hinders readability.
I hope they'll make a desktop web version of this app, because planning everything (what you want to see, where you want to eat, etc.) on a small screen is tedious.
For all my previous trips I have used Google My Maps [0], which is good but not great: on mobile, the places you added to your layers don't contain any Google Maps information, such as opening hours, and you even need to have data to get the name of a place you saved.
However, what's great with My Maps compared to Trips, in addition to the fact that there is a desktop web app, is that thanks to layers you can color-code the places you add to your map, so for example make all the museums pins purple, the restaurants pins blue, etc.
This article is really, really, bad. It makes a gratuitous generalisation from a single example. Yes, the “Tony” who wrote the “Hey, big spender” essay upon which this article is based sounds like a huge douchebag who asks his mother to do his laundry so he can enjoy “experiences”, but I don’t see how you can infer from this that everyone who lives a minimalist lifestyle is doing the exact same thing.
I do believe that sexism is still very much present in our society, but I don’t see how minimalism has anything to do with it, and the article provides no explanation as to how they might be linked.
A more interesting approach on minimalism would be to ask “are all minimalists rich people who cut back on their possessions”, which is also something that “Tony” could be an illustration of, and which seems more plausible:
- another rich-guy-turned-minimalist is mentioned in the article [0]
- an opinion piece from the NYT on the subject was written by someone with a similar profile [1]
- the New Yorker even published a comic on this [2]
What’s interesting about this other angle is that you can then discuss why this “get rid of all your belongings” advice might not apply to everyone, especially poor people, despite what some minimalists might think.
