Paul Lindner @lindner@social.coop
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
Press '+' to Pay Respects
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...
@resonatecoop Google and other companies restrict their employees from contributing to AGPL code.
I suggest giving some thought to negative/positive liberty., covered in "Decoding Liberation: the promise of free/open source sw"
http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~bcfoss/DL/
Is Utopia a Hospital?
Fred Turner --
A hospital is a place where people get together, work very hard over very long periods of time in defined roles, checking and rechecking each other’s work, and they work toward a benevolent goal of saving lives.
https://032c.com/fred-turner-silicon-valley-thinks-politics-doesnt-exist
One solution; treat open source like a VC.
Companies take a "FOSS/FLOSS" round -- in exchange for using community property firms would put ~7% of equity in escrow, that would be used exclusively to fund these efforts.
Music videos with Javascript bugs -- Titles on MTV have been showing 'undefined' for over a week.. It's funny no one notices or cares that it's messed up....
Authors: would you recommend Medium membership for someone that wants to support good writing? Any alternatives? As always concerned that Medium took $132m in venture funding that will have to be paid...
The #teamhuman book is out, and very very good. A must read. If you have more time than money I have some paid-for Play Books gifts I can give. DM me.
Buy your copy of Ted Nelson's "Computer Lib/Dream Machines" while you can.
If you really want to play games with the algorithms change your locale from en-US to en-GB. You'll soon be getting Royals, FIFA and Daily Mail clickbait.
https://medium.com/s/douglas-rushkoff/the-real-value-of-facebook-19d1d6cb3003
