wk50/2021

13-19 Dec 2021

• Ghost riders: the invisible lives of Johannesburg food couriers (theguardian.com) - photo essay on the delivery drivers of Johannesburg
• I blew $720 on 100 notebooks from Alibaba and started a Paper Website business (tinyprojects.dev) - a really cool idea for a paper-based blogging service which uses machine learning / OCR to convert your hand-written paper blog into post on a website
• Dude this should NOT be in a Dell Switch… or HPE Supercomputer (servethehome.com) - STH investigates strange American-Megatrands stickers within high-end secure servers, which in the end did just turn out to be a typo that no one had spotted
• I'm Phil Jones.  (exquora.thoughtstorms.info) - an ex-Quora addict on his new life, quitting after 10 years and 11000 answers
• drugs, secrets, and the circling hyenas (backstory.substack.com) - a story of the discovery of coffee, and qat