My links for the week.
- Basecamp implodes as employees flee company, including senior staff
- Inside the all-hands meeting that led to a third of Basecamp employees quitting
- New vaccine perks: halftime shots and savings bonds — “The fact that we as a country have to beg or pay or bribe people right now to take this lifesaving vaccine, the optics are awful internationally. We look like a nation of adolescents, especially at a time when India, Africa and most of the world are clamoring for more vaccine supply.”
- Disney reveals its ‘real’ lightsaber, and it looks extremely cool — People keep referring to this as a “real” lightsaber, but they really mean “retractable” lightsaber
- Verizon sells AOL and Yahoo for about half of what it paid
- A Revolutionary NES Tetris Technique Gaining Steam
- The Instagram ads Facebook won’t show you
- Sony is working to integrate Discord into PlayStation consoles
- Could this famous con man be lying about his story? A new book suggests he is — “Abagnale’s famous tale of forging checks and assuming different professional identities has captured national audiences through pop-culture adaptations, most famously the 2002 Steven Spielberg film, ‘Catch Me if You Can,’ starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks.”
- Microsoft to fully remove Adobe Flash from Windows 10 in July
- Bootstrap 5 — It’s been quite a while since I’ve used Bootstrap, but I’ve always been impressed with the project
- Rolling Stone’s 100 Best Sitcoms of All Time