Reading list

Design of the week

• What's happening here. A reductive page and CV explaining the reductive nature of this designers' artistic style. Took a solid dose of own medicine.
• The foundry of Elias Hanzer is always worth a bookmark.

Tech of the week

• OpenAI debuts a GDP store where you can buy and sell customised chatbots.
• Ars Technica has a cautionary tale about how a 'ridiculously weak' password to the DNS registry spelled doom a huge mobile carrier.
• Shopify has some mind blowing numbers to talk about in this article on how they increase performance and reduce complexity in their engineering dept.
• Can a native text editor be sexy? No. Regardless of the reviewers Freudian problems evident in an early five-star review on App Store, the developer behind the app has an interesting story to tell about how the app came to be.
• Google first, readers last? The Verge looks into how the need for attention gradually has reshaped the web around Google algorithms.