Mid-August links
Erin McKean’s latest Things I learned while looking up other things is well worth a read.
Yesterday was the annual celebration of people, like me, whose dominant hand is their left one, yet its Wikipedia page can’t decide if it’s spelled Lefthanders
, Left-Handers
, or Left Handers
—all three appear in the article simultaneously. Get it together, people.
Notable Sandwiches #146: Peameal Bacon, by Talia Lavin. Yum.
Medicaid to Halt Coverage of Transgender Youth Healthcare, by Jane Migliara Brigham.
Meanwhile, This AI Chatbot Pushes Conversion Therapy on Trans Users, by Madisyn Parisi.
LGBTQ+ Travel and Relocation: practical guidance for inclusive employers, via Zeldman.
Six London councils commit to keeping services trans inclusive despite new EHRC guidance, by Alice Linehan.
Michigan finds hair salon owner violated the law by directing trans people to pet groomers, by Jacob Ogles.
Police Called on Trans Men Using Women’s Restroom As Required By Kansas Law, by s. baum.
Now every cheap hood strikes a bargain with the world
Ends up making payments on a sofa or a girl
“Love” and “hate” tattooed across the knuckles of his hands
Hands that slap his kids around ’cause they don’t understand how“Death or glory!” becomes just another story
“Death or glory!” becomes just another story
Queer stars & fans celebrate Star Trek’s 60 years of diversity, by Dawn Ennis.
Single-Source Publishing Community is a group for everybody involved with or interested in modern publishing approaches, such as editors, developers, authors, tool makers, and everybody else.
(via Antoine Fauchié)
Edlira Nano. Software Obsolescence: analysis and remediation strategies. PhD thesis. June 2026. https://. (also via Antoine Fauchié)
AI is removing the middle class of software engineering, by Florian Herrengt, via Faisal.
If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe, by Marco Campos, via Eric Bailey.
A Gentle Introduction to DAP and Prio, by mt.
The Membership Crisis, by Sarah Sladek. As counterintuitive as it may sound, membership decline happened because membership organizations stopped paying attention to members. Membership stopped being the priority.
This tracks.
Standards Development Organisations in an era of strategic competition, by Tom Barrett.