Estimates are a frequent source of discussion in the industry. This article helps you identifying core issues people have when it comes to estimates, and how to address them.

Tim Kadlec makes a great point about the Ethics of Web Performance:

There is a growing gap between what a high-end device can handle and what a middle to low-end device can handle. When we build sites and applications that include a lot of CPU-bound tasks[…], at best, those sites and applications become painfully slow on people using those more affordable, more constrained devices. At worst, we ensure that our site will not work for them at all.

Product Managers often tend to frown at users when they do not understand our software, but can you fill in a simple form in less than 5 minutes?

A Chinese video blogger pretending to be a young beauty queen was revealed to be a middle-aged woman as her filter failed during a live stream, which tells you a lot about where we are headed as a society.

A few years ago there was a case where a woman was pretending to be a single man by using a voice changing software with Skype - enabling a filter to change the appearance while being live on air is a completely different level though.

(Update: Beauty filter are common among chinese vloggers, and this might very well have been a deliberate Public Relations stunt. )

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It’s a few days old aldready, but CTRL-SHIFT-FACE has posted an impressive set of deep fakes , starring Jim Carrey in Shining, and showing off the current state of the art for Deep Fakes. Spooky.

I recently took the train to Munich, a 7-hour-ride, and I took the opportunity to working on a React Native project during the journey. Since I could not see myself shaking my phone every few minutes in front of strangers for the better part of the day, I researched a bit and found the following neat trick: