Coughs and sneezes can transport coronavirus 20ft Masks reduce airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 reinforces that mask wearing reduces the transmission of COVID-19. The WHO has also revised its guidance regarding mask wearing. Larry Brilliant says “If 80% of the people wore a mask 80% of the time, COVID would go …

There are no bugs, just TODOs I enjoyed Lukas Linhart’s Project Management article there are no bugs, just TODOs. I agree with a lot that’s there (a well-defined ordering for doing things, bugs and features essentially being the same type of task). I’m torn when it comes to “close old …

Just stop the superspreading Two epidemiologists have written a NY Times op-ed about COVID-19: Just Stop the Superspreading. “In our study, 20 percent of Covid-19 cases accounted for 80 percent of transmissions.” 70% didn’t spread to anyone. Another similar article in Science. Nice comparison of …

Backlinks 2020-06-02 There are many ways to do Knowledge Management, and they might fit different brains. This is part of how I feel about task managers. Different tools for different brains. Zain Rizvi’s Zettelkasten vs. PARA article was interesting to me because it provided a nice summary of PARA and how …

How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change This has been a tumultuous few days in Civil Rights in America. Barack Obama posted How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change, which is a clear and concise article advocating for specific reforms (so that elected officials can’t dodge) and …

Backlinks 2020-06-01 This has been a tumultuous few days in Civil Rights in America. Barack Obama posted How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change, which is a clear and concise article advocating for specific reforms (so that elected officials can’t dodge) and local voting, because the …

Backlinks 2020-06-01 People always joke about the proliferation of Client-side Web Frameworks, but I think it’s a very fertile area for exploration. Solid is an example of why: it appears to offer React’s main features, but produces smaller, faster output. There’s also an introductory article

How Vietnam stopped the coronavirus Interesting CNN article about the COVID-19 response from Vietnam, which kept confirmed cases at 328 with no deaths. The did it by acting early and swiftly with extensive contact tracing, isolation, and a modest amount of testing (lots of temperature checking, though). Oh yeah, and a …

Was the “lockdown” necessary? More importantly: what happens next In general, I have thought that Governor Whitmer has done a good job with the coronavirus response in Michigan. That doesn’t mean that I am closed off to different perspectives. I won’t entertain discussions in which people talk …

Backlinks 2020-05-28 Web Development has changed a lot over the years and there’s an interesting tension today between building full-on React and JS-based pages and the old-school approaches of server-generated HTML. HTMX uses simple HTML attributes to trigger calls to the server, which then generates HTML. The …