Weekly Filet #133: A Relentless Text Editor You'll Love. And more.
This week's top recommendation
You know what they're saying: You haven't thoroughly understood something if you cannot explain it in very simple terms. Challenge yourself: This xkcd inspired editor only allows you to use the 1000 most common English words. Use it the next time you're pitching an idea to someone or try it right now to describe what you're currently working on.
→ The Up-Goer Five Text Editor
Further recommendations
Stunning images from a distant time. The Hindenburg over Manhattan in image #22 gives me the shivers.
→ Airships (In Focus)
A great NYT feature: A road trip from St. Petersburg to Moscow, showing the Russia Putin hardly cares about (except if it's for the view from one of his residences).
→ The Russia Left Behind (New York Times)
The internet of things promises to make everyday objects smarter and more useful. This essay offers a different perspective, looking at the poetic, narrative quality of objects with a memory.
→ If This Toaster Could Talk (The Atlantic)
Gursky would sell them for millions: Images taken from running trains' windows, creating fascinating «light paintings».
→ Samuel Bramley: Lichtmalerei (TagesWoche)
Book recommendation
Sterben, by Karl Ove Knausgard
«First of six volumes of an autobiography. In Norwegian: Min Kamp.»
– Jean-Luc Testault
This is one of over 50 recommendations by readers of the Weekly Filet, compiled on this list: Filter bubble bursting book recommendations (you can also add your own).