The role of media coverage in the bubble formation: Evidence from the Bitcoin market. “This paper explores the role of media coverage in bubble formation in the Bitcoin market. Three main findings emerge.” Interesting analysis.

What if failure is the plan? by danah boyd. Interesting read on Twitter’s crawl towards failure (or is it?) and the wider discussion on failure actually being the target of the plan.

The genius of Lionel Messi just walking around. “Messi is soccer’s great ambler. To keep your eyes fixed on him throughout a match is both spellbinding and deadly dull. It is also a lesson in the art and science of watching a soccer match.”

Auto-M4B Docker docker container for the powerful auto-m4b “wrapper for ffmpeg and mp4v2 to merge, split or and manipulate audiobook files with chapters. Although m4b-tool is designed to handle m4b files, nearly all audio formats should be supported, e.g. mp3, aac, ogg, alac and flac.”

Biblioteche: Umberto Eco. “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” – Borges.

Open sourced code for Quotes the Daydreamer Android App.

The Tyranny Of Time. Interesting read on how the clock superseded Time. The title should more aptly been ‘The Tyranny of the Clock’. “Like money, the clock has come to be seen as the thing it was only supposed to represent: The clock has become time itself.”

Apple Kills Its Plan to Scan Your Photos for CSAM. The heart was in the right place but as they concluded “Children can be protected without companies combing through personal data”.

Why did the OpenSSL Punycode vulnerability Happen? “an explicit IETF design choice, that made punycode decoding part of X.509 verification, without even a line of acknowledgement in the Security Considerations.”

In Memoriam: Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. — Personal Recollections. By Steven M. Bellovin.