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I put together a shortlist of really good Twitter accounts to follow, out of the 600-or-so that I do. (Not recommended, btw.)
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You can't tell me that this track from Bugsnax wasn't inspired by FEZ. I choose to believe the similarity is tribute. (Also there's a subtle nod to Tárrega's Gran Vals in the form of Nokia Tune.)...
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I'm wondering about whether to cross-post the content on here (and the inevitable next generation of shortform that's cooking slowly) onto another platforms. I wouldn't mind having a bit of a...
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So I got booted off Twitter for good. I've been trying to leave but got pulled back in recently. Perhaps that might mean more posts on here :)
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Though I haven't researched Radicle enough yet to form an opinion on the tech, the design of their landing page is awesome. It's the perfect combination of garish design and vaporwave. (Via Lobste.rs)
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Slack is being acquired. The person in the comments comparing this to Microsoft's acquisition of Skype rings true, vaguely being aware of Salesforce and their structure. Good thing I wasn't...
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Tim Bray on his proposal for decentralised identity management for @bluesky. While I can't disagree with the reasons he outlines for why this is even a problem, I have a slight feeling that this is...
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Follow-up on the previous post. The "commit to a ledger" part requires for the user to be able to prove their identity to the ledger, which is trivial if it is centralized, but if the ledger is a...
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On the second death of Docker and the rise of Kubernetes and containerd to take its place. (Via Lobste.rs)
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This Lobste.rs thread along with the linked article are a really good source of both ideas and experiences in remote learning. It's also really valuable to get this insight as a student because I...
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A recent treasure trove of a weblog I've stumbled upon: Computers Are Bad. Of note, this article on the more social and less technical (but also the more technical) aspects of Tor, and the yet...
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Happy random new revolution around the Sun. Lately I've been rethinking the purpose of this feed. I don't think I tend to have as many things to say as I used to a couple years back. Likewise, I don't...
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A fleeting thought related to the eventual successor for this part of the Web: Is federation (in the style of ActivityPub or Matrix) worth the technical complexity? What's the "bare minimum" protocol...
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Also, while I'm here, there's a new post on the blog, inspired by the recent Elasticsearch relicensing ruffle.
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After reconsidering, I'm starting Shortform back up. A couple of integrations will be added soon; meanwhile, there's Atom and JSON feeds for the syndicationists out there. I was thinking of...
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Two Bit History on the real novelty of ARPANET. Even though I'd like to think I know a couple of things about the history of the Internet, this post was like an epiphany; in hindsight, the novelty has...
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Related to the previous post, I wanted to go off on a tangent about how the passing mention of RSS listed it as a dead technology is both false in that I know most of the readers of this shortform blog...
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Related to previous posts, another dead technology: the Semantic Web. The mention of JSON-LD and Schema.org was pretty much what I thought would be the culmination (and it was.) Another way the faint...
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And to close out the tetrafecta of Two Bit History posts (a, b, c), this pondering of FOAF is a great one to close it out upon. The context within which I confused myself about having heard of FOAF,...
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madaidan on the many insecurities of Linux. Though some points are contestable, especially when comparing to other OSes, generally it's true. Linux indeed is from a bygone era where we trusted our...
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boringcactus (previously) on licenses, again. Partially related to the Elastic SSPL relicensing, which I've also written about. Declaring my political beliefs in this post would be beside the point,...
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Slight sidenote: though I'm not a Lobste.rs member, I do browse it often to source my links and read insightful discussions. In that light, I am constantly thankful to and amazed by pushcx for his...
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On TikTok and Gen Z. Given my own supposed generational allegiance, this is something to consider in the context of one's idea of self. (Via Flicker Fusion)
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Related to the last post, Flicker Fusion uses Public Sans as its body typeface. Which has tabular figures. That's neat.
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I don't think I ever post these, but I've been following Dolphin (the GameCube/Wii emulator)'s blog for a while, and their approximately-bimestrial progress reports are chock-full of fascinating...
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On why the Intel assembler syntax is better than AT&T. We had a course in uni which incidentally used the AT&T indirect addressing syntax (offset(base)); seeing 3(%edi,%ebx,8) in all its glory...
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The fact that iOS 6 and lower used WebKit to render text is absolutely sublime. I mean, yes, WebKit is pretty good at text rendering—that's an integral part of the Web—but it still strikes me as odd....
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A compendium reference on why typing (the computer science kind) is hard. Some of the languages listed as "undecidable" does not necessarily mean that the compiler crashes or whatever; many of them...
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This mildly prosaic retelling of the Therac-25 incident is worth a read. The source is definitely going on my reading list—I've heard and read about Therac-25 on multiple occasions, but hadn't yet...
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Okay, fuck it, I'm embracing the worse-is-better philosophy. For things that are not link-related, here's a Telegram channel. Worst comes to worst, I can always export it and put it up on the site.
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I've found a gem in science and/or fiction: qntm.org. Some highlights: Valuable Humans in TransitHow to destroy the EarthI don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibilityLenacripes does anybody...
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arp242 on Go not being an easy language, though it superficially seems such. As pointed out in the Lobste.rs thread, the "easy-hard" spectrum is not quite the dichotomy that it appears to be. Go makes...
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Nvidia is limiting the mining rates on their consumer GPUs. As kornel mentions, it's a bit conflicting; while, yes, mining itself is a menace on society, limiting the use of hardware you supposedly...
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On the dichotomy between open and closed messaging platforms, in the context of XMPP vs Signal. I've linked to Seirdy's post on mostly the same topic, but the former exercises the exact idea I had in...
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Here's the progress report for Asahi Linux, a distribution targeting M1-based Macs, who also upstream their contributions to Linux mainline. For those who are aware of my love of the Dolphin progress...
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On parsing Protobuf efficiently by taking a few design cues from LuaJIT and combining them with exciting progress in the compiler world. Interesting to consider that tail calls hadn't made it to any...
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On glue code. I like the comparison to dark matter because it's true on both counts and holds up well. (Via Lobste.rs)
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On thought leaders through the lens of the hedgehog and the fox. (Via Lobste.rs)
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Since a while ago, I've been posting a lot of content that would usually go on here onto the aforelinked Telegram channel instead. While the aforelinked channel itself has gone private—feel free to ask...
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