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By Abhinav

Interrupt #9 - No passwords, AirBnB, Telegram Premium, Spacedrive, pyscript

#9・ May 7, 2022

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Interrupt is a weekly newsletter compiled from the most interesting things I have come across this week. Sometimes along with my original writing or commentary.

Big News and Happenings

Russia Will Quit International Space Station Over Sanctions

www.bloomberg.com

Forget passwords. Apple, Google and Microsoft say you won’t need them at all in the future

Forgetting your password will become a thing of the past, the tech giants say. Just don’t lose your phone.

www.euronews.com

China announces plans for a new asteroid-deflecting mission

China’s National Space Administration has a new plan for a potential test mission to redirect an asteroid would launch around 2025.

www.theverge.com

Twitter accepts buyout, giving Elon Musk total control of the company

Twitter has accepted Elon Musk’s $43 billion bid to purchase the company and Musk is rumored to be the temporary CEO.

www.theverge.com

Airbnb’s design for employees to live and work anywhere

Co-Founder and CEO Brian Chesky shared the design for living and working anywhere. And it is being received very well.

news.airbnb.com

Instagram is testing a full-screen home feed like TikTok

Instagram is testing a feature that would offer a similar, instantly immersive experience.

techcrunch.com

TikTok will start to share ad revenue with creators

TikTok Pulse is a new ad program that will include revenue share payouts to participating creators with at least 100,000 followers.

www.theverge.com

Square Enix sells all of its Western game studios—and their games—to Embracer

$300 million deal includes “over 50” classic games’ rights, over 1,000 devs.

arstechnica.com

Microsoft Edge surpasses Safari as the second most popular desktop browser

9to5mac.com

Telegram 'Premium' subscription seems to be near launch

While there’s no cost known just yet, Telegram seems to be working on a paid “Premium” subscription with exclusive stickers and more.

9to5google.com

What I Found

pyscript

Create rich Python applications in the browser using HTML’s interface.

github.com

zag

Finite state machines for building accessible design systems and UI components.

github.com

malerba118/scrollex

Build beautiful scroll experiences using minimal code

github.com

spacedrive

Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file explorer, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem written in Rust.

github.com

microsoft/Microsoft-3D-Movie-Maker

MS released source code for the original 3D Movie Maker released in 1995. This is not supported software.

github.com

What I Read

What are your Most Used Self Hosted Applications?

noted.lol

Cool Things People Do With Their Blogs

brainbaking.com

Why Jony Ive Left Apple to the ‘Accountants’

The man who helped give the world candy-colored computers eventually walked out the door. What does that mean for the company’s next big thing?

www.nytimes.com

The great VC pullback of 2022

Are we witnessing a major VC pullback? Is it temporary? What does that mean for startups? Certainly the topic du jour in startup circles. Here’s what I’m seeing. IS THE PULLBACK REAL? Yes.

mattturck.com

Increasing the surface area of blogging

tomcritchlow.com

why do you waste so much time on the internet

zan.bearblog.dev

Why LSP?

LSP (language server protocol) is fairly popular today.There’s a standard explanation of why that is the case.You probably have seen this picture before:

matklad.github.io

Ask HN: Do you find it challenging to talk to your users?

news.ycombinator.com

Did you enjoy this issue? Yes No

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