Your Weekly Web Weave
Interesting topics: Learn to change a duvet cover using new method. Mechanical watches display types. Startups face chaos before success. Teenager's life impact. Etak Navigator, first car map pre-GPS.
Hello subscribers! We got valuable feedback last week that we were only covering software topics, so this week we are changing it up a bit. Check them out below!
Easier way to replace duvet cover
Ever tried to put a fresh duvet cover? Its a struggle right? Here is a technique called "roll-invert-unroll" that makes changing a duvet cover much easier and faster. The method involves rolling up the duvet and cover together, inverting the cover over the roll, and then unrolling it. This process allows the cover to easily slide onto the duvet with minimal effort. Check out the article for step by step instructions with pictures.
https://danverbraganza.com/writings/an-easier-way-to-replace-a-duvet-cover
Calendar Types In Watches
Mechanical watches have various "complication" features beyond just telling time, such as displaying the date, day, month, and moon phase. Showing the date is particularly challenging for mechanical watches, with different calendar types ranging from simple date displays to perpetual calendars that account for leap years. Learn about all these complications in this article.
https://arslan.io/2024/04/29/calendar-types-in-watches/
Chaos at start
The early years of successful startups are often characterized by gut-wrenching uncertainty, chaos, and struggle, even as they appear to be on a trajectory of explosive growth. This article argues that there is no clear way to distinguish between the tortuous chaos that leads to unimaginable success and that which leads nowhere, as even highly successful entrepreneurs and authors faced repeated rejections and setbacks before achieving their breakthroughs.
https://longform.asmartbear.com/chaos-at-start
A look at teenagers today
This graphic heavy webpage follows the life of a teenager named Alex over 24 years, from 1997 to 2021. Alex comes from a low-income, high-risk family environment and experiences various adverse childhood experiences. These early life challenges significantly impact Alex's educational attainment, employment, health, and overall well-being as an adult. It highlights how childhood experiences shape one's trajectory in life, with those facing more adversity often struggling as adults. Do check this webpage out in all its graphic glory.
https://pudding.cool/2024/03/teenagers/
Story Of Etak
When was the first “google maps” for car invented? 2000? 1990? How about 1985? The Etak Navigator, launched in 1985, was the world's first practical vehicle navigation system. It used innovative technologies like augmented dead reckoning, a heading-up moving map display, and address search to provide navigation without GPS. Though the Etak Navigator itself was not commercially successful, the company's innovations and talented team went on to influence the broader navigation industry.
https://maphappenings.com/2024/04/11/story-of-etak/
🥁Website of the week 🥁
Goes to (drum roll please..) https://untools.co
A great website that provides visuals for thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.
Thanks for reading this. See you next week!