🙋♂️ Summer Links Only Special – Of bits and bytes for June 10, 2024
Internet Travels
Of bits and bytes is my weekly round up of interesting links and ideas I discovered on the internet. It is published on Mondays for the previous week
With it being summer and me not wanting to get burned out, for June and July the Of Bits and Bytes newsletter will be links only. Hopefully that won’t be too boring for you, but I also want you to get a chance to recharge. The full newsletter will return in August!
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Apps
- Google Sheets New Feature: Conditional notifications – Google Docs Editors Community
- Google Sheets New Feature: New ways to quickly format and organize data with tables – Google Docs Editors Community
- Google Sheets New Feature: Smooth scrolling – Google Docs Editors Community
- You can try the Chromebook ‘App Mall’ now in ChromeOS 125
Pedagogy
- Children with autistic traits tend to be less creative, but there is a caveat
- Is It Live or AI? How Can I Tell?
- Lead with love and follow 5 principles of “energetic success” – Big Think
- AI In Schools: Misalignment of Values – Another Think Coming
Technology
- ChromeOS + Cameyo: Reimagining Legacy Apps for the Modern Enterprise | Google Cloud Blog
- New York governor to launch bill banning smartphones in schools | New York | The Guardian
- The Acer Chromebook Plus Spin 714 found the secret recipe for on-device AI | Laptop Mag
- Google Chrome’s switch to a new extension framework is officially underway
Tips
Pop Culture
- How learning about the science of shyness helped me | Health & wellbeing | The Guardian
- What does the world owe us? | Seth's Blog
- John Quincy Adams on Impostor Syndrome and the True Measure of Success – The Marginalian
- Systems: The Purpose of a System is What It Does – Anil Dash
Potpourri
- Study indicates people underuse their visual working memory
- How can I improve my memory? – Deseret News
- Women perform better in cognitive tests when menstruating, study finds | Menstruation | The Guardian
- Quote by Douglas Adams: “I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe …”
- 8 weird punctuation marks that faded from the English language – Boing Boing
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