My Apps Have an Anxiety Problem

‘They spin, buffer, and refresh endlessly, searching for something that isn’t out there’

Erik Hinton
OneZero
Published in
6 min readMay 31, 2019

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I’I’m starting to worry about the well-being of my apps. Lately, they feel anxious. These sophisticated tangles of software that knit my life into something workable are coming apart at the seams. They spin, buffer, and refresh endlessly, searching for something…

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Erik Hinton
OneZero

Interactive developer and journalist @medium. Taught ‘The Politics of Interactive News’ @TheNewSchool. Formerly @The_O_C_R @NYTimes @outline @WSJ.