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- Tour de France to be Raced on Zwift in July
This year's UCI season was demolished due to COVID-19 like most other sports. All of the big monuments, classics, and at least 1 Grand Tour (Giro) were postponed. MilanāSan Remo, DauphinĆ©, ParisāRoubaix, and a bunch oā¦
- Things That Will Change
This is a weird time. The COVID-19 pandemic is the biggest global event that's happened in my lifetime. It hasn't impacted me personally that much (yet), but the financial and public health implications are clearly alā¦
- The Coronavirus Would Be Worse Without the Web
Tyler Cowen's recent piece in Bloomberg makes the case that technology is helping, not hurting the cause of containing the pandemic. The openness of the web was certainly instrumental in forcing transparency on the paā¦
- Hong Kong Is Fast Becoming an Also Ran
I don't follow international markets closely enough to keep up with this, but interesting to see this take on Hong Kong's relative stagnation in recent years, especially as compared to other nearby mainland China citiā¦
- Weekend Reading: Strasburg Tipping, RapiD, and TikTok Investigation
ā¾ļø How the Nationals Fixed Stephen Strasburg and Saved Their Season Strasburg tipping his pitches almost ended the Natsā run: He remembered the game Strasburg pitched in Arizona on August 3. The Diamondbacks pounded Sā¦
- Weekend Reading: Kipchoge's 2 Hours, Future Ballparks, and the World in Data
šš¾āāļø Eliud Kipchoge Breaks 2-Hour Marathon Barrier An amazing feat: On a misty Saturday morning in Vienna, on a course specially chosen for speed, in an athletic spectacle of historic proportions, Eliud Kipchoge ofā¦
- Weekend Reading: Atlas of Moons, Opendoor and Redfin, and Thinking While Walking
š The Atlas of Moons This is an absolutely phenomenal project showcasing each of the major satellites in the Solar System. The full interactive maps of each one are incredible. It shows how much data we've gathered aā¦
- The Bing of Maps
At the recent WWDC, Apple announced an overhaul to their Maps product, including millions of miles of fresh data from their vehicle fleet, along with a new Street View-like feature called āLook Aroundā. Even though itā¦
- iPadOS
I've written here before about my enjoyment of working on the iPad Pro. Even with the excitement around Apple's launch of the new Mac Pro this week, my favorite announcement was their "specialization" of iOS in the neā¦
- HQ2: Understanding What Happened
This piece from Barry Ritholtz does a good job breaking down the real background behind the Amazon NYC HQ issues, how they were attracted and why they bailed: The heart of the opposition to Amazon was how much the citā¦
- The State of RSS
The heyday of RSS is long behind us. Ever since the shutdown of Google Reader in 2013, the crown of feed-based content consumption has been taken by Twitter. Thereās something about the heavily personalized nature ofā¦