Here is another collection of links that I found personally intriguing and that you might find interesting as well.

  • How I built one of the biggest BIN lookup sites in the world, and how it was killed. Before doing Product in HR and Payroll I did product in payments. In payments, your BIN is a thing; the BIN is used to identify your credit card’s issuer and the country it’s originating from. Matt Birchler has a nice story about how he built a product on top of the Binlist API and how it evolved and eventually got killed.
  • The Clean Industrial Revolution has arrived. Bill Gates blogs about the Breakthrough Energy Summit and what promising climate tech is on the horizon to address five challenges behind the planet’s highest gas emissions today.
  • The paper tablet. I’m still thinking about getting myself a reMarkable 2 digital notebook. While I have an iPad Pro for work, I don’t like writing on it, as I miss the feeling of writing on paper. The reMarkable 2 seems to come close to the writing-on-paper experience.
  • Kiosk. Mass-produced from the 1970s to the 1990s, modular kiosks like the seminal K67, designed by the Slovenian architect Saša J. Mächtig, and similar systems – including the Polish Kami, the Macedonian KC190, and the Soviet ‘Bathyscaphe’ – could be found anywhere throughout the former Eastern Bloc and ex-Yugoslav countries, from bustling city squares to socialist-era housing estates. They served as hot dog and Polish zapiekanka joints, farm egg and rotisserie chicken vendors, funeral flower shops, newsstands, car park booths, currency exchange offices, and more. (Via Kekness.nl)

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