In this week’s round-up, we delve into a variety of enriching topics—from the impact of Apple’s iPad ad and its broader implications on the internet in “The Great Flattening” to innovative ways to tackle digital clutter with the “CODE Method”. We also explore optimizing remote workspaces for heightened productivity, the unique benefits of handwriting over typing, and the value of incorporating buffers into our schedules to avoid over-planning. Additionally, insights into pricing data assets, the importance of SQL constraints, avoiding the soft delete anti-pattern, and understanding the Popover API are included. Plus, a look into the 8 Laws of Focus, the effects of solar storms on tractor GPS systems during crucial farming periods, and the challenges of alternative software implementations. A truly diverse collection aimed at broadening knowledge and sparking curiosity.

• The Great Flattening: Apple’s iPad ad might not have been good for Apple, but it was a profound encapsulation of what has happened on the Internet; the question is what it leads to next.
• Use the CODE Method to Manage Your Digital Hoarding: Organizing as you go helps minimize all that digital hoarding.
• Optimising The Remote Work Environment For Better Productivity: What To Do.: The purpose of this article is to educate remote workers how they can optimise their home offices. Read on.
• HTML5 UP: Responsive HTML5 and CSS3 site templates designed by @ajlkn.
• Immersive Math:
• Shots – Health News: Researchers are learning that handwriting engages the brain in ways typing can’t match, raising questions about the costs of ditching this age-old practice, especially for kids.
• You Need More Constraints: A checklist of useful SQL constraints.
• Don’t Give Every Minute a Job: When planning, it’s tempting to fill up your calendar, but reality often has plans of its own. What if there was a way to better protect yourself from over-planning? Let’s talk about buffers.
• How To Price A Data Asset: Everything you ever wanted to know about data pricing.
• Avoiding the soft delete anti-pattern:
• Popover API: The Popover API provides developers with a standard, consistent, flexible mechanism for displaying popover content on top of other page content. Popover content can be controlled either declaratively using HTML attributes, or via JavaScript.
• These are the 8 Laws of Focus (May Focus Digest): Welcome to May! This monthly digest is for folks who want to create a more ideal schedule, get organized, and stay in control of the things that matter. If you are new to the digest… here’s what to look forward to around the beginning of every month: A short article on a single concept around […]
• Solar Storm Knocks Out Farmers’ Tractor GPS Systems During Peak Planting Season: The accuracy of some critical GPS navigation systems used in modern farming have been “extremely compromised,” a John Deere dealership told customers Saturday.
• The Alternative Implementation Problem: In this post, I want to talk about a dynamic that I’ve seen play itself over and over again in the software world. In fact, I would venture a guess that this kind of situation probably happens in the hardware world as well, but I’ll speak about software systems since this is where my experience…