Really nice work by The Financial Times to try to give a glimpse into life in the gig economy.

Scenario: You're a full-time Uber driver with two kids to support, and a $1000 mortgage payment due in a week. Can you earn enough to pay the bill?

I often see ads by Grab and Uber trumpeting the flexibility of being a driver for them. Grab even has an ad proclaiming that you can "live mortgage-free"! But you just have to take a closer look to realise that things are not as rosy as they look for the gig workers.

Good, if slightly alarming, long read about North Korea.

In his rapid rise, Kim acquired defining habits of mind. Mansourov said, “He’s a person who was never told no. Nobody drew the red line, and said, ‘Not a step further.’ Nobody punched him in the face, made him feel hurt. We say, ‘A man begins to grow his wisdom tooth when he bites more than he can chew.’ With Kim Jong Un, he has never yet bitten more than he can chew. Whatever he sets his sights on he gets. He keeps pushing, and pushing, and pushing. We don’t know where his brakes are, and I suspect he doesn’t know where he can stop.”

A Variety of Unprocessed Foods Cut into Uncannily Precise 2.5cm Cubes by Lernert & Sander:

In 2014, Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant contacted conceptual design studio Lernert & Sander to create a piece for a special documentary photography issue about food. Lernert & Sander responded with this somewhat miraculous photo of 98 unprocessed foods cut into extremely precise 2.5cm cubes aligned on a staggered grid. Looking at the shot it seems practically impossible, but the studio confirms it is indeed the real thing.

Recently, I switched from using Google Chrome as my primary web browser to using Safari, mainly due to the fact that Safari is faster on my Mac and is more energy efficient because it uses less resources. However, there were a few Chrome features that I missed, such as having favicons of each website showing in the tab bar, the minimalist status bar, and Cmd+Shift+T to reopen any number of previously closed tabs.

After some searching around, I managed to find extensions to replicate the functions that I missed the most. I've compiled the list below:

1) Minimal Status Bar - http://visnup.github.io/Minimal-Status-Bar/
This extension provides a minimalist status bar for Safari, similar to what Chrome has. It auto-hides when not needed and expands shortened links. True to its name, there are no other settings or customisations.

2) Retab - https://github.com/bucaran/retab
Re-open as many as the last 20 closed tabs, with a setting to change the shortcut key to the Chrome-style Cmd+Shift+T. Very helpful as it takes advantage of muscle memory from my Chrome days.

3) SafariStand - http://hetima.com/safari/stand-e.html
Allows favicons to be shown for each tab in the tab bar. This greatly reduces the time it takes to identify the tab I'm looking for. However, it requires the installation of EasySIMBL, which is an extension manager for Mac OS X apps.