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I am back from Washington DC and was impressed at how all the institutions have upped their game. Exhibits now use lots of large displays, speakers, touchscreens, and projectors to tell multimedia stories. You’re not merely looking at items mounted to a wall with a text description. If you have not been in the past few years it is worth taking a trip, which is an inexpensive and short plane ride from Boston. Once you get there, there are plenty of activities to fill-up your time over a week.

In the past few weeks I have noticed the quality of service from food delivery apps is declining:

• Items are forgotten.
• It takes longer for food to arrive.
• Food keeps getting stolen or marked not delivered by the driver.

• RubyConf Home Edition is coming January 11-12th. An exciting option to participate and get the content early if you missed RubyConf or RubyConf Mini.
• Putin’s War gives the most comprehensive account I have read of why Russia did not win the war in Ukraine easily.
• Big Tech Laid Off Thousands. Here’s Who Wants Them Next highlights the opportunity for organizations looking to hire software engineers after the recent layoffs shaking up the tech industry.
• The Wikipedia iOS App is surprisingly good.
• You can get LinkedIn Learning with your library card.
• The White House is restarting its free COVID test program.

Clive Thompson writing on Medium:

Many software developers are terrible at this. To be fair, most everyone is bad at it; hell, I know full-time journalists who fail at this task all the time.

The writing of documentation is, in other words, a liberal art.

And if you’re good at it? Holy crap, it can really make your open-source project explode in popularity.

One of the best things about joining TED has been being part of a remote team. As someone who has not been diagnosed with, but am certain I have an auditory processing disorder, being able to collaborate on Slack and using other written communication as the primary way to work makes it much easier.