Backlinks 2021-01-27 Nutrition is a complex topic and the research isn’t always … useful. Dion Almaer shared a link to Peter Attia’s Straight Dope on Cholesterol — Part I, which looks like a thorough and interesting look at the topic (written in 2012).

Jel: the un-Zoom A bunch of people are working on making Remote Meeting spaces better or more interesting. Here’s another one: Jel (though the introduction blog post is way more informative).

Boosting your happiness chemicals Via Recomendo: The Emotion Machine has a large collection of quick and easy tips to boost dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins. Hush for Safari blocks nag popups Via Daring Fireball, Hush is a content blocker for Safari on Mac and iOS that gets rid of all of those cookie …

The Complete List of Trump’s Twitter insults Via Daring Fireball: The NY Times has compiled a list of Trump’s insults on Twitter, organized by subject of the insult. Let’s hope we don’t have a President with this sort of record again. Politics Some of these are not particularly …

Wickedblocks is a set of Tailwind components A nice looking collection of MIT-licensed Tailwind components: Wickedblocks. The Bernie Sanders wearing mittens collection Jessie Damiani has a Twitter thread collecting up many Bernie-in-mittens memes. Plus, there’s Bernie in Lord of the Rings. And from videos to new …

Rectangle window manager Rectangle is an open source macOS window manager that appears to have some nice features.

Giant list of Trump’s misdeeds I look forward to not having to pay as much attention to Politics, assuming that most of the time, things will just truck along in a reasonable way. McSweeney’s Lest We Forget the Horrors: A Catalog of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes is an …

ScribeCount gives wide authors sales data ScribeCount sounds like a useful tool for Publishing wide and works the way I’d design such a system to work. It runs as a browser extension, so it doesn’t require access to your login information for the websites. The browser extension slurps up your sales data and …

Koanf: Go configuration library From the release notes of Ory Hydra, I learned about knadh/koanf, a Go library for configuration (via command line or files in various useful formats). It claims to have fewer dependencies than other options, but still has quite a few. The dependencies aren’t unreasonable for what …

Internet 3.0 and the Beginning of Tech History I’m not so certain we’ll see a move back to open/decentralized protocols as @benthompson predicts in this worth-reading article. I’d love to see it, but there’s so much about the user experience that has proven difficult to get right. Decentralized is just harder to make …