Jerome Velociter has an interesting riff on how Diaspora, Mastodon and similar decentralised and federated tools are failing their true potential (ht Frank Meeuwsen).
He says that these decentralised federated applications are trying to mimic the existing platforms too much.
They are attempts at reb…
Read: Losing your online persona
I keep a bulging plastic bin under my bed filled with diaries I’ve had since elementary school. They are an archive of my life, literal baggage I tote around from apartment to apartment as an adult…
By now, people should be aware that anything they post to a service they do not have control over or cannot easily back up is vulnerable to loss….wake up people!
Read: Feed Reading by Social Distance
At the Crafting {:} a Life unconference one of the things that came up in our conversations was how you take information in, while avoiding the endlessly scrolling timelines of FB and Twitter as well as FOMO. My description of how I read feeds ‘by social distance‘ was met with curiosity and ‘c…
Another excellent post, I am going to join the conversation…
Read: Crafting A Blog
With so many old school bloggers in the room, discussions about blogging were imminent during Crafting {:} a Life. Some never stopped blogging, but were lonely writers for a long time, such as Peter. Others have moved their writing to the corporate silo of Facebook, and then there are people who ref…
I really liked this sentence:
For me blogging has always been about thinking out loud, because only when I try to formulate my ideas, I actually know what I’m thinking.
Read: Three conversations about blogging
At last week’s Crafting {:} a Life unconference on PEI I participated in three conversations on blogging: What happened to blogging? Initiated by Steven Garrity The future of blogging. Initiated by Peter Rukavina Doing Blogging. Initiated by me
Elmine already blogged some of her impressions from t…
This unconference account is really interesting, will need to blog further about it…
Read: How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer
Design shortcuts meant to make a new plane seem like an old, familiar one are to blame
Read: Hypercard at 30
From the archives: Before the World Wide Web did anything, HyperCard did everything.
I can barely remember using Hypercard, wonder if anyone will do anything like it again…
Read: The Wolfram Function Repository
We’re on an exciting path these days with the Wolfram Language. Just three weeks ago we launched the Free Wolfram Engine for Developers to help people integrate the Wolfram Language into large-scale software projects. Now, today, we’re launching the Wolfram Function Repository to provide an organized platform for functions that are built to extend the Wolfram Language—and we’re opening up the Function Repository for anyone to contribute.
I remember when it was “just Mathematica….”
Read: The end of political cartoons at the New York Times
All my professional life, I have been driven by the conviction that the unique freedom of political cartooning entails a great sense of responsibility.
Cool story, I am not a Times subscriber, so I did not know there were no political cartoons until this artist got in the back window…
Read: Banks scramble to fix old systems as IT 'cowboys' ride into sunset
Bill Hinshaw is not a typical 75-year-old. He divides his time between his famil…
If I ever get tired of working in the aerospace industry, looks like there is plenty of need for old COBOL programmers….