Computers are divine machines that we sully with our 'wares. A CPU is a marvel of science and engineering. The garbage we flip its little gates with is a tragedy. I document the trauma humans inflict upon them.
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As someone who finished a 2 year AAS in Linux network administration in 2008 just as the economy was taking a dive and companies were rushing to replace their expensive and needy IT departments with Google's growing suite of cloud products, I empathize. At least a scholarship paid
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Inside Bluesky’s Engineering CultureA deep dive into how a fully remote, open source-first, tech company is building a challenger social media platform. What can small teams learn from Bluesky about punching above your weight?The Pragmatic EngineerGergely Orosz That article details a lot of the kind of things I
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I'm putting this here so I can tap the sign any time someone tells me to get rid of Windows. Could I switch to Linux? Sure. I probably know Linux better than most people who chastise me for using Windows. I've used it in some capacity
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Some notes from a larger talk, but here's one that stood out. Science fiction is not about predicting the future, it is about looking at the concerns we have today and projecting them forward. Novels are empathy machines. You can really get into what the characters were feeling/
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Operating systems never die. When IBM announced OS/2 in 1987, nobody would have guessed that its glory days, such as they were, would be over by the mid-1990s. But when the company concluded that OS/2 had failed, it would have seemed equally unlikely that it would make it
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An exploration of Kodak's history, its impact on culture, and its struggle to reinvent itself in the digital age. The Rise and Fall of an American Tech GiantKodak changed the way Americans saw themselves and their country. But it struggled to reinvent itself for the digital age.The
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I've written about federated social media before. Activitypub could be the futureThis is an older post brought back from a dead blog. It has an informal followup in the form of my post on Bluesky, Mastodon, and federated networks in general. Beyond Mastodon and Bluesky - Toward a
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1. You can launch without a content policy without different subcommunities declaring war on each other. 2. You can create a content policy that makes everyone happy. 3. You won’t spend your days doing battle with the community over your content policy 4. You can completely automate moderation 5.
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This is an older post brought back from a dead blog. It has an informal followup in the form of my post on Bluesky, Mastodon, and federated networks in general. Beyond Mastodon and Bluesky - Toward a Protocol-Agnostic FederationYou’ve heard of stuff like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Make an
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This article is the elder sibling of my shorter Ask The Fox post on the same subject. It's bigger and more detailed. Reasons to learn to code: * You have an offer for a job that involves coding, or could benefit from it * Existing tools don’t serve your
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You’ve heard of stuff like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Make an account on one, and it only works there. You can’t send a DM to your friend on Twitter from Facebook Messenger. You can’t browse your friend’s Instagram feed from Twitter. Each one is closed off
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It's 2024 as I pick up this old draft from 2021 and we've largely gone into full denial about the very much still ongoing covid pandemic. The going concern now is Omicron and its variants. Variants that, lucky for us all, are still well-controlled by the
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Would that we all know what we want. Or at least what we don't. People who tell others to learn to code pile implicit assumptions into the statement. Learn to code... ...to fix your tools. ...to make your own tools. ...for fun. ...for freedom! ...for money! ...to understand
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It’s easy to say Patreon’s fate was sealed the moment it took venture capital (VC). It’s widely understood that VC locks a company on a trajectory with three possible outcomes: acquisition, IPO, or yet another “our incredible journey” shutdown. The received wisdom is that all of Jack