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            "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/zoom-into-maps-talk-video\/",
            "title": "“Zoom into maps” talk video",
            "content_html": "<p>Here’s a video of my February talk at the Transit Mapping Symposium in Abu Dhabi:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-video\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BJ7kbxDaGHo?enablejsapi=1\" allow=\"autoplay\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n",
            "summary": "Here’s a video of my February talk at the Transit Mapping Symposium in Abu Dhabi",
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            "title": "“User Interface” book demo in Intercom",
            "content_html": "<p>Here’s a short fragment of my UI course in Intercom (Dublin). Talking about paging and scrolling, I show how my book <a href=\"https:\/\/bureau.rocks\/books\/ui-en\/\" class=\"nu\">“<u>User Interface<\/u>”<\/a> works:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-video\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u0u5h9ncKoM?enablejsapi=1\" allow=\"autoplay\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sorry for the quality, the recording was originally made for Intercom’s internal use.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "Here’s a short fragment of my UI course in Intercom (Dublin). Talking about paging and scrolling, I show how my book “User Interface” works",
            "date_published": "2020-03-25T13:11:47+03:00",
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            "id": "319",
            "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/map-as-a-symbol-video\/",
            "title": "Map as a symbol talk video",
            "content_html": "<p>Transit Mapping Symposium has published the video of my February Paris talk, “Map as a symbol”:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-video\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oGp4HPHwj5o?enablejsapi=1\" allow=\"autoplay\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n",
            "summary": "Transit Mapping Symposium has published the video of my February Paris talk, “Map as a symbol”",
            "date_published": "2019-07-01T12:27:45+03:00",
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            "title": "Feedback first",
            "content_html": "<p>Here is my talk from FDConf, Minsk about feedback in the user interface:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-video\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zZ6XgD8xe1s?enablejsapi=1\" allow=\"autoplay\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n",
            "summary": "Here is my talk from FDConf, Minsk about feedback in the user interface",
            "date_published": "2017-11-13T23:59:22+03:00",
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            "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/perfect-coincidence-ass-spinner\/",
            "title": "Perfect coincidence: ass spinner",
            "content_html": "<p>This TV set in a cafe has lost signal while showing a biathlon race:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-video\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CFxydZsYXW0?enablejsapi=1\" allow=\"autoplay\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>A loading indicator has been spinning around a biathlete’s ass for minutes: “here, pay attention, this is the most important part”.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "This TV set in a cafe has lost signal while showing a biathlon race",
            "date_published": "2017-02-11T21:16:55+03:00",
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            "title": "UI Animations: four things",
            "content_html": "<p>Here’s a video of my recent talk about UI Animations at AngularJS-IL meetup in Tel Aviv:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-video\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LZLgKMF65N0?enablejsapi=1\" allow=\"autoplay\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>The video quality is not good because this wasn’t even meant to be recorded. I am lucky to have the video at all. Also, this was my first public talk in English — sorry about some slips.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "Here’s a video of my recent talk about UI Animations at AngularJS-IL meetup in Tel Aviv",
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            "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/uvildy-road-in-the-fall-video\/",
            "title": "Uvildy road in the fall",
            "content_html": "<p>Yesterday I was driving from Uvildy back to Chelyabinsk. Here is the beauty of the fall for you:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-video\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6Nj3sgxim6g?enablejsapi=1\" allow=\"autoplay\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>I’m very impressed by <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.instagram.com\/post\/95829278497\/hyperlapse-from-instagram\">Instagrams’s Hyperlapse<\/a> video stabilization. This place <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.ru\/maps\/@55.4846485,60.4415205,3418m\/data=!3m1!1e3\">on the map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/uvildy-ice\/\">Uvildy ice<\/a>.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "Yesterday I was driving from Uvildy back to Chelyabinsk. Here is the beauty of the fall for you",
            "date_published": "2014-09-30T09:23:27+03:00",
            "date_modified": "2014-09-30T09:28:31+03:00",
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            "id": "143",
            "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/uvildy-ice\/",
            "title": "Uvildy ice",
            "content_html": "<p>Uvildy is a lake <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.ru\/maps\/@55.5115833,60.4972453,12z?hl=ru\">about 100 km<\/a> from my home city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. In winter, it freezes over. Where there is no snow on the surface, the transparent ice looks stunning.<\/p>\n<p>I have made a video today:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-video\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/88003322\" allow=\"autoplay\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>And also took several pictures (original size; right-click to save and use as wallpaper, if you like):<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/uvildy-ice-IMG_3692.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706.6666666667\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/uvildy-ice-IMG_3696.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706.6666666667\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/uvildy-ice-IMG_3697.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706.6666666667\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/uvildy-ice-IMG_3702.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706.6666666667\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/uvildy-ice-IMG_3703.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706.6666666667\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Camera: iPhone 5s.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "Uvildy is a lake about 100 km from my home city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. In winter, it freezes over. Where there is no snow on the surface, the transparent ice looks stunning",
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            "id": "141",
            "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/steve-jobs-demos-the-mac-in-1984\/",
            "title": "Steve Jobs demos the Mac in 1984",
            "content_html": "<p>Watch this video. I am almost as excited about the stuff they show as the audience:<\/p>\n<p><video id=\"CTPmediaElement0\" class=\"CTPmediaElement\" controls=\"\" preload=\"auto\" src=\"http:\/\/timeInc.brightcove.com.edgesuite.net\/rtmp_uds\/293884104\/201401\/3530\/293884104_3106072393001_BCS-January-1984-640x480.mp4\" poster=\"http:\/\/timeInc.brightcove.com.edgesuite.net\/rtmp_uds\/293884104\/201401\/446\/293884104_3105752610001_mac1984.jpg?pubId=293884104\" style=\"width: 470px !important; height: 264px !important;\"><\/video><\/p>\n<!-- http:\/\/www.loopinsight.com\/2014\/01\/26\/just-unearthed-steve-jobs-first-public-demo-of-mac\/ --><p>I think the 2007 iPhone demo will look impressive even in thirty years.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "Watch this video. I am almost as excited about the stuff they show as the audience",
            "date_published": "2014-01-29T19:44:35+03:00",
            "date_modified": "2014-01-29T19:44:28+03:00",
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            "id": "138",
            "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/ladibird\/",
            "title": "Ladibird",
            "content_html": "<p>About two years ago I wrote that <a href=\"http:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/dslr-dock\/\">DSLR cameras had to become iPhone docks<\/a>. Several month ago Sony has presented its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HKGEEPIAPys\">lens cameras<\/a>, but it was not quite that. A now, this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-video\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-WLgQMbdt1s?enablejsapi=1\" allow=\"autoplay\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Let me mount my Canon lenses onto this thing.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "About two years ago I wrote that DSLR cameras had to become iPhone docks. Several month ago Sony has presented its lens cameras, but it was not quite that",
            "date_published": "2014-01-11T22:24:00+03:00",
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            "id": "121",
            "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/sonys-lens-cameras\/",
            "title": "Sony’s lens cameras",
            "content_html": "<p>Looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/dslr-dock\/\">my dream<\/a> is to come true very soon:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-video\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HKGEEPIAPys?enablejsapi=1\" allow=\"autoplay\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n",
            "summary": "Looks like my dream is to come true very soon",
            "date_published": "2013-09-03T22:26:45+03:00",
            "date_modified": "2013-09-03T22:26:23+03:00",
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            "id": "85",
            "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/online-video-and-opening-titles\/",
            "title": "Online video and opening titles",
            "content_html": "<p>Online video does not require an opening title.<\/p>\n<p>On television, opening title is the only way to introduce a program. It alerts the viewers that the program is about to begin, giving them several seconds to make themselves comfortable in front of the TV.<\/p>\n<p>On the Internet, the video is introduced by the content of the page it is on. There is already a title and in most cases even a description. And it’s up to user when to hit “Play”. When she does, there’s no point in alerting her, it just irritates her by delaying the show.<\/p>\n<p>If video is made to be used on many different sites and thus needs some sort of title within itself, it’s always better to use a signature in the corner or on a plate which fades out shortly.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "Online video does not require an opening title",
            "date_published": "2013-04-11T23:17:40+03:00",
            "date_modified": "2013-04-11T23:17:18+03:00",
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            "id": "53",
            "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/2012\/05\/02\/1\/",
            "title": "Two nice features of Blackberry 10",
            "content_html": "<p>Here’s a short review of Blackberry 10 from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2012\/5\/1\/2991517\/blackberry-10-a-closer-look-video\/in\/2755145\">The Verge<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-video\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gzof2I9pj0A?enablejsapi=1\" allow=\"autoplay\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Cool stuff:<\/p>\n<ol start=\"1\">\n  <li>Live photo editing (1:20...1:34). It’s hard to explain in a few words, just watch the video.<\/li>\n  <li>Word suggestions right inside the keyboard (1:46...2:02). I don’t know if it’s useful, but definitely looks interesting.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Also, the overall UI looks quite nice.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "Here’s a short review of Blackberry 10 from The Verge",
            "date_published": "2012-05-02T16:47:05+03:00",
            "date_modified": "2012-05-05T13:43:29+03:00",
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            "_date_published_rfc2822": "Wed, 02 May 2012 16:47:05 +0300",
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            "title": "The beauty of silence",
            "content_html": "<p>Breaking news:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A law was passed that in order to drive a car [...] in Britain, there had to be a person walking in front of the car, waving a red flag and blowing a horn.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, this is not news, this is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sahistory.org.za\/transport-land\">history<\/a>. But, wasn’t it ridiculous? Waving a red flag and blowing a horn! Like an idiot!<\/p>\n<p>Now, to the news. Electric cars are beautifully quiet, but can be dangerous: people don’t know the car is approaching and get killed. And so car manufacturers are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designboom.com\/weblog\/cat\/16\/view\/20272\/audi-e-sound-for-electric-cars.html\">making the cars produce artificial noise<\/a>. <s>Like idiots.<\/s> The article even says that “recent legislative efforts in the US are making it mandatory that companies add artificial engine sounds to electric vehicles”. Here’s an Audi video about production of such sounds:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-video\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/39818209\" allow=\"autoplay\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>They are trying to make it “cool”, but it is so wrong. Noise does not make a car any more useful. Noise is there because of the imperfect aging technology, not because we wanted it to be there. Noise is pollution, we must get rid of it.<\/p>\n<p>People will get used to the beauty of silence. And love it.<\/p>\n",
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            "content_html": "<p>It’s hard to imagine the world before iPhone. Today it turns five. A historical video:<\/p>\n<div class=\"txt-video\"><iframe width=\"768\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PL11D411F0FCFA817D&amp;hl=en_US\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><p>If you haven’t seen this, you should. At least the first 15 minutes. Even if you prefer Android, learn where it comes from. It’s the best Jobs’s keynote, and the main reason, I believe, why analysts and reporters have always been “disappointed” by all the following ones.<\/p>\n",
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            "title": "Sigward: Obvious Cinema",
            "content_html": "<p>One of the best tracks of 2011:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-video\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TZfZuZW1P3Q?enablejsapi=1\" allow=\"autoplay\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Progressive something between pop music and techno. It’s like Yaki-Da’s “I Saw You Dancing”, but serious. Very technical and warm. Worth listening to in a good quality. The worst moment is when it ends — could easily play on repeat for an hour.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "One of the best tracks of 2011",
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