🎵It’s been 🎵… three weeks since my last roundup.
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The Jarbochov Weekly Roundup (March 4th, 2022)
I took last week off. Right now it’s hard to watch as the world follows on social media a war in realtime on their phones. I hope you are doing okay, here is a collection of things that will hopefully distract you for a while.
What’s inside will shock youThe Jarbochov Weekly Roundup (November 5th, 2021)
Remember, Remember
The fifth of November,
I need to do yardwork… and plot.
The Jarbochov Weekly Roundup (October 29th, 2021)
Here we are at the end of October. I hope you’ve had a good month. I think I’m looking forward to the holidays? The idea of just winding down after this year seems appealing. I hope you’re taking care of yourself.
I accidentally made this week’s roundup pretty dense, so…
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This roundup is a normal one. Nothing exciting. Pretty mediocre.
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Welcome to your final summer roundup. Can you believe that autumn is nigh? I have a weird personal relationship with fall. It has historically been one of my least favorite seasons, but, that’s changed in recent years. Could I express why in words? Not really. But don’t you worry, let the pumpkin spice flow!
Continue reading “The Jarbochov Weekly Roundup (September 17th, 2021)”Facebook Buys Giphy
If you would have told me in 2005 that GIFs would be huge, I would have laughed at you. Absolutely absurd. GIFs were the bane of personal websites in the late 90s and early 2000s. But as media has evolved, bandwidth increased, and now we all have mini-computers in our pockets, GIFs have been an indispensable resource in expressing our feelings, referencing pop culture, and generally speaking it’s lightweight portable video now.
Now Facebook is involved which in turn means privacy is at risk. I didn’t think about it at first, but Giphy is the defacto source for GIFs and integration to their Google database of GIFs. Now we all have trackers in any app we use.
Of course Giphy is going to retain its own brand. If they renamed it to “Facebook Tracking Pixels”, usage might drop off. Think about all the messaging apps that don’t offer Facebook integration for security/privacy reasons (not to mention not wanting to have their apps crash on launch when Facebook pushes a buggy update), where Giphy images appear. You know, like Apple’s Messages. Well, now Facebook has tracking pixels in them.
John Gruber
Cool. Cool cool cool.