Links

• 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)

Earlier link dumps can be found here:

• Linkverzameling #001

• RSS: The forgotten protocol that still matters​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​. I think I have been using RSS since it was introduced in WordPress. It’s still a technology I rely on daily, and it will continue to be with the new Reeder.app and Tapestry.app on the horizon. It’s pretty cool how RSS, a technology from the late 90s, still powers so much of the internet today, including your podcast feeds.
• Slashpages.net. You can add slash pages to your website, usually with a standard, root-level slug like /now, /about, or /uses. Slashpages.net has an excellent overview of common pages you can set up yourself.
• aboutideasnow.com. It is a great way to find people with similar interests as myself, but don’t post content on large social media platforms. For example: Runners or Photography enthusiasts.
• Chat Control Must Be Stopped. More background information on the ‘Chat Control bill’ that is supposed to be passed in the EU Council and why this bill isn’t a good idea is needed.
• HDMI Display Emulator. I ordered this little USB-C device earlier this week after seeing a colleague use a similar device. This is ideal for people like us who often need to do presentations from their laptop without an external monitor nearby. With this device you emulate a second monitor in the OS giving you the opportunity to share the virtual second screen in Teams, Zoom or Webex while seeing the speakers notes yourself. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this.