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With WorkOS you can start selling to enterprises with just a few lines of code. It provides a complete User Management solution along with SSO, SCIM, and FGA. The APIs are modular and easy-to-use, allowing integrations to be completed in minutes instead of months.

Today, some of the fastest growing startups are already powered by WorkOS, including Perplexity, Vercel, and Webflow.

For SaaS apps that care deeply about design and user experience, WorkOS is the perfect fit. From high-quality documentation to self-serve onboarding for your customers, it removes all the unnecessary complexity for your engineering team.

Link: workos.com/?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=display…

An English couple took photos in front of a Swiss glacier in 2009 & 2024 and the difference is shocking. “Switzerland has lost one-third of its glacier volume since 2000…and 10% has disappeared in the last two years alone.”

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World’s longest bicycle (180+ feet) or slow & impractical steamroller?

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Amazing stat about the disappearance of bands from the UK music charts (29:40 mark): in the first half of the 80s, bands were #1 for 146 weeks; the first half of the 90s, it was 141 weeks. In the 20s so far: 3 weeks that songs by bands were #1. 🤯

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I haven’t watched too much of the Olympics this summer so maybe the announcers explain this every single time they show a medals ceremony, but in case you didn’t know, the long, thin boxes given to the medalists along with their medals contain the official poster of the Game...

Tressie McMillan Cottom reports from Louisville, KY on the challenges of residents organizing a tenants union across racial & political divides. “I have to keep white liberals from disorganizing us.”

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Forthcoming book: The Marvel Comics Covers of Jack Kirby Volume 1. This volume contains covers from 1961 to 1964, including art from The Avengers, The Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk, and The X-Men.

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It looks like overdose deaths in the US might finally be falling. Still over 100,000 people/year are dying but the trend is heading in the right direction.

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Myles Zhang, a PhD candidate in architectural history, created this drawing of Manhattan’s Chinatown several years ago.

Chinatown’s tenements are in the foreground, while the skyscraper canyons of Lower Manhattan rise above. This shows the area of Chinatown bordered by Bowery, Canal Street, and Columbus Park.

It took him around 60 hours to complete; he made a time lapse video of its creation:

There’s a very large scan of the image that’s worth looking at.

Tags: architecture · art · cities · Myles Zhang · time lapse · video

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Taegan Goddard, writing at Political Wire:

In many ways, Tim Walz is the person J.D. Vance pretends to be. He’s an authentic, decent and normal guy.

Link: politicalwire.com/2024/08/06/initial-thoughts-on-tim-walz/

Nate Silver: This was a choice designed to maintain the social fabric of the Democratic Party, and avoid news cycles about a disappointed left and Democrats’ internal squabbling over the War in Gaza. Or at least, that’s what I think it was: we’ll need to learn more about...

CNN:

During recent remarks at a “White Dudes for Harris” fundraiser, Walz made a rough-and-ready case for [Harris] before would-be small-dollar donors.

“How often in 100 days do you get to change the trajectory of the world? How often in 100 days do you get to do something that’s going to impact generations to come?” Walz asked. “And how often in the world do you make that bastard wake up afterwards and know that a Black woman kicked his ass, sent him on the road?”

I was hoping for Buttigieg or Shapiro, but that quote alone makes me like the cut of Walz’s jib. Also, Walz is the guy who got the whole “they’re weird” thing going.

Link: cnn.com/politics/live-news/kamala-harris-trump-election-08…

A deep dive into Null Island. “Null Island is a long-running inside joke among cartographers. It is an imaginary island located at a real place: the coordinates of 0° latitude and 0° longitude.” Its shape is a reference to the video game Myst.

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The Marshall Project: what communities have learned from sending unarmed responders instead of police, including “data suggests unarmed responders rarely need to call in police” and “many people remain leery of dialing 911 in a crisis”.

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The Ringer’s Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly remember to dodge, duck, dip, dive, and dodge as they rewatch the 2004 comedy classic ‘Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story,’ starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, and Christine Taylor. Producer: Craig Horlbeck Watch this episode on our new Ringer Movies YouTube channel! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

My thanks to 1Password — which, earlier this year, acquired longtime DF sponsor Kolide — for sponsoring last week at DF. In a 2023 survey of IT and security professionals, 50 percent of respondents said that their organization’s vulnerability management program had support from leadership to “a large/great extent”. That’s good for them. But it also leaves a full half of respondents without enough support from leadership.

If you’re trying to get buy-in at your own organization, come equipped with the facts about the risks you’re facing, and come with a clear plan to remediate them. To learn more about how vulnerability management is changing, read 1Password’s blog post, and come prepared.

Link: 1password.com/daringfireball

David McCabe, reporting for The New York Times: Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in online search, a federal judge ruled on Monday, a landmark decision that strikes at the power of tech giants in the modern internet era and that may fundamentally alter the w...

YES YES YES: “Campaigns from Harris for President on down should clarify that they will post to Twitter only after updating other platforms. Steering the media away from Twitter helps democracy.” Time to stop helping Musk’s disinformation campaign.

Jason Snell, “Existential Thoughts About Apple’s Reliance on Services Revenue”: The intersection of hardware and software has been Apple’s home address since the 1970s. And yet, a few years ago, Apple updated its marketing language and began to refer to Apple’s secret sa...

If you watch any of Steven Spielberg’s movies, you’ll notice a distinctive element: the Spielberg Face.

If Spielberg deserves to be called a master of audience manipulation, then this is his signature stroke.

You see the onscreen character watching along with you in wonder, awe, apprehension, fear, sadness. It’s the director’s way of hitting pause, to show the audience this is a critical scene, to reinforce how the audience should be feeling in that moment.

[This is a vintage post originally from Oct 2016.]

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