Paul Lindner @lindner@social.coop
Waiting for the wind to start blowing and the power to stop flowing here in Oakland
Algedonic Meters? Real time citizen feedback? For Chilean people? Looks like Cyberfolk 2019!
Did you know your hard disk is descended from a streetcar? Learn how in "Solid State: Minnesota's High Tech History". Also includes Cray, the Oregon Trail and yes, Internet Gopher.
https://www.tpt.org/solid-state/video/solid-state-minnesotas-high-tech-history-35848/
via @tpt
Apple: Introducing Dark Mode for iOS 13
Android: Try our new Dark Theme in Android Q
PG&E
Expect outages of my #indieweb @withknown host 1500wordmtu.com due to @PGE4Me power cuts.
My low-power home server, solar panels, and batteries are pretty solid. ISPs? Not so sure....
10 Years ago today: Sundar Pichai tells you why SideWiki is cool.
https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/help-and-learn-from-others-as-you.html
@sundarpichai
Ruha Benjamin presented this 1957 robot future by SuperGirl creator Otto Binder today. Prescient and horrifying at the same time and brings to mind Graeber's take on flying cars.
@ruha9 @davidgraeber
What if instead of Footloose it's Footlease and it's for the landlords
Every developer should ask themselves what they will do when their software is used to further hatred and human suffering.
Small world. Bumped into @micropixie today in the Mission. A reminder to support your local artists and musicians. Also do check out "Dark Sight of the Moon" which is vg
@Greg I don't see anything online -- there are some links to papers on the 2018 site https://2018.techdebtconf.org/
TODO(lindner): attend tech debt conference
"What hath we wrought?"
Fowler's latest is good reading. Breaks down the either/or choice of speed vs quality. (Hint quality wins; because cruft)
https://martinfowler.com/articles/is-quality-worth-cost.html
How long before Javascript starts looking like Perl?
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/12/class-fields
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Goodbye Google+, thanks for trailblazing tech, good times and connections made.
Please donate to @internetarchive to support the upkeep of the (finally real) Google+ Ghost Town.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190313142515/https://plus.google.com/+PaulLindner
""What we found was that the majority of news outlets had not given any thought to even basic strategies for preserving their digital content, and not one was properly saving a holistic record of what it produces.""
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/the-dire-state-of-news-archiving-in-the-digital-age.php
Happy to see Uranium Club show up on @resonatecoop this morning.
https://resonate.is/profile/9203/
Always nice to see good stuff come out of Minneapolis.
In June 1995 I presented "Using Gopher with the World-Wide-Web" at GopherCon 95.
""Together the strengths of Gopher and WWW create a better, more integrated information system.""
http://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmNSeLizSGrHjpMZKQg21Sw15NQNTmMjA43mDtw66fNDSz/Webbedgopher.txt
I ❤️ Standards
A long, long time ago I had an ISO bumper sticker with two cars colliding at equal heights. Can't seem to find any evidence of it existing anywhere, offline or online...
