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• In this TEDxOshkosh talk Axios Jim VandeHei tells us to write less and say more. Great advice I will take to heart.
• David Sparks Shortcuts Field Guide for Mac is a great resource if you want to learn how to automate things on your Mac.
• I recently enjoyed More than Robots on Disney+ about the FIRST Robotics program.
• You’re Not Allowed to Have the Best Sunscreens in the World is a look into why European sunscreens have effective ingredients that feel less icky on the body, but the FDA has yet to approve.

One of the ways you can speed up software development is to learn keyboard shortcuts. If you start searching you will discover your computer has way more keyboard shortcuts than you ever imagined. Even more exciting is web applications like GitHub have keyboard shortcuts as well. On many websites Shift+/ will reveal a screen of shortcuts. Unfortunately too many applications have different conventions for similar actions, and this makes keyboard shortcuts harder to learn.

On the latest episode of the Verge’s Decoder Nilay Patel interviews the TSA’s chief innovation officer. They cover a whole host of topics, but I appreciated Patel pressing them on Pre-Check, the awfulness of the experience in general, and having to trade surveillance for convenience. We get a few hints of things to come: better scanners, less restricted items, and maybe facial recognition. Patel does a great job of pushing the case for how many shoe bombers are there, really? And do we actually need to be dumping all our liquids?

From Bocoup:

According to our static analysis of the HTTP Archive, 16% of web pages use maps and 22% of those have interactive geographic features. This outweighs the use of other incredibly common features, like the picture and video elements, or YouTube embeds. However, despite the popularity and ease of map making there are still barriers and frustrations. Geopolitical decisions inform borders which are drawn by technology companies. These coded borders lack context or narrative but represent sovereignty, for better or for worse. Without access to the tools used to create or change borders, map tiles, or projections, map users and makers do not have the ability to make maps meaningful for their lived experience. Through the Web Maps project, Bocoup engaged with the team at Natural Resources Canada to explore a pathway to fix this by centering accessibility and equity in map creation.

From The Washington Post:

According to a filing circulated with congressional offices and obtained by The Technology 202, Google is asking the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to weigh in on whether it can launch a program to shield candidates’ emails from some spam detection tools.