Leo’s Twitter Updates for 2008-01-30

Substitutions: now playing for Kate, Brianna. In for Matt, Mark. In for Sean, a player to be named later. #
Interviewing the guys behind Edison and Leo – Canada’s first stop-action feature film. They shot it with a Canon 5D! #

IBPA Calls on Apple to Reduce Its Commission from 30% to 15% on Apple Books for Authors Platform - Independent Book Publishers Association 5 December 2020

Independent software developers aren’t the only small businesses presently subject to Apple’s 30% commission, however. The company encourages authors and independent publishers to join Apple Books for Authors, but extracts a 30% commission from every paid ebook sale in Apple’s digital books marketplace

How Microsoft crushed Slack - Platformer 5 December 2020

The idea that workers would someday choose all their own tools was always a fantasy, he told me, in part because most workers don’t event want to think about their tools. In such a world, the winning app will almost always be one with a giant, er, salesforce behind it. Microsoft had one. Slack didn’t. […]

Why Is Apple’s M1 Chip So Fast?. Real world experience with the new M1… | by Erik Engheim | Nov, 2020 | Debugger 5 December 2020

This is part of the reason why a lot of people working on images and video editing with the M1 Macs are seeing such speed improvements. A lot of the tasks they do can run directly on specialized hardware. That is what allows a cheap M1 Mac Mini to encode a large video file without […]

The psychology behind ‘revenge bedtime procrastination’ - BBC Worklife 5 December 2020

The phrase might have been popularised in China, but the phenomenon it describes is likely widespread, with over-stretched workers all over the world putting off bedtime to claim some precious personal time – even though they know it’s not good for them.

NandGame - Build a computer from scratch. 5 December 2020

Leo's pick 12/9

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