Blogs about Computers, internet, tech
84 blogs about Computers, internet, tech.
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Alexander Obenauer
Exploring new and renewed ideas for how personal computing and the interfaces we think with can better serve people’s lives – expanding opportunity, agency, curiosity, and creativity.
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Thinking about the interfaces with which we think Today, I’ve got a new essay to share with you. It will land in a few parts, and part one is up now. Read on: The Interfaces With Which We Think » Here’s the introduction: …
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#algopop
Studying the appearance of algorithms in popular culture and everyday life.
By Matthew Plummer-Fernández. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
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anderegg.ca
Something (slightly) less boring than nothing.
By Gavin Anderegg. 🇨🇦 More infoUpdated
Two flavours of open social media Yesterday, the Mastodon team announced it would be handing over control of its project to a new non-profit organization. The timing of this announcement is perfect given everything that’s happening with WordPress, Meta, and… well, …
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Annoying Technology
Curates the daily annoyances in the technologies surrounding us.
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Manuel was annoyed I wish Slack would spend half as much time on improving core functionality as they do on these obnoxious, enterprise-grade notifications for features I don’t need. This one is particularly dumb: It’s from a Slack …
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asadrahman.io
Asad's online home.
By Asad Rahman. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
The fourth path (or, how bespoke, community-owned data can shape AI towards autonomy) The fourth path TL; DR – AI systems enhance human autonomy if we deliberately design them that way. This piece proposes one piece of that puzzle: ensuring the data that underpins AI models is bespoke, …
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ASCII by Jason Scott
Jason Scott's Weblog.
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The Dying Computer Museum One can choose to focus on the car crash, or the lessons learned from the car crash. Let’s do a little of both. The proposition of the Living Computer Museum was initially simple, and rather …
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as days pass by
scratched tallies on the prison wall.
By Stuart Langridge. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
My Keys I have a problematic relationship with keys. Well, that's not true. I have a problematic relationship with key rings. For some reason, my pockets are a violently hostile environment for things I put in them. …
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The Autodidacts
Exploring the universe from the inside out.
By Curiositry, Adam, Immanuel. 🇨🇦 More infoUpdated
Scroll-to-text fragment bookmarklet TL;DR I made a thing and think it’s cool. Have you ever wanted to send someone a link, not to a huge and confusingly-laid-out webpage, but to the one sentence that’s relevant to them? So …
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Benedict Evans — Essays
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Competing in search A search engine is a vast mechanical Turk - a reinforcement learning engine that uses human activity to understand the web. PageRank used signal from links created by people, but once people started using Google …
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Blogccasion
The personal blog of Thomas Steiner.
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Eleventy (11ty) year, year-month, and year-month-day indexes I love hackable URLs. A hackable URL is a URL that makes sense to a human reader, and where the human reader can guess what to change to get to another page. For example, if …
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Blood Knife - Editorial Archives
A digital magazine about cyberpunk, sci-fi, horror, neon, knives, blood, and capitalism.
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REVIEW: Foe (2023) Tense, emotional climate science-fiction that doesn’t quite come together by Kevin Fox, Jr. This piece was written during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, the film being covered …
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booktwo.org | James Bridle
The blog of James Bridle: art, literature, and the network, since 2006.
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Shipping Seagrass to the Venice Biennial We’re raising money to take an ecological artwork to Venice. Support us here. In 2022, my partner and I co-founded the artist’s collective Vessel on the island of Aegina to explore creative approaches to ecology, …
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Building Slack
Stories of building Slack — the company, the product, the business, and the culture — told by two employees who were around for the entire journey.
By Ali Rayl, Johnny Rodgers. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
The death of Glitch, the birth of Slack [This post is about the day that Glitch failed, and how that failure created the opportunity to make Slack. We're sharing it here (out of chronological order) to mark 12 years since the famous pivot.]“We …
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cadence's weblog (personal blog)
A grab bag of stories, computers, photos, mind, and all the other thoughts that won't let me go.
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What is the smallest phone number? It's triple zero, used to call the emergency services in Australia. That is the lowest possible number. We did it!Well that was boring. And you, dear reader, probably don't even live in Australia,* so it's …
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Caffeinspiration
Writing about tech, our minds, and how things work.
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Harry Chapin and RATM: the problem with bleeding interests Note: this post requires a basic familiarity with the songs discussed. If you’re not familiar with them, I’d recommend you listen to at least a portion of the following three songs: Free Bird by Lynyrd …
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Cal Bryant
An attempt to document my projects.
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Design/build of some elegant, fully parametric speaker cabinets This post documents a saga of speaker design dating back to 2019. Since then, I’ve been gradually working on a CAD model for a new set of what started as (yet another) subwoofer, but became …
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Cennydd Bowles · Writing
Cennydd Bowles is a designer and tech ethicist. He is a principal technology adviser at the ICO, author of Future Ethics, and a visiting lecturer at the RCA and Manchester Met.
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Teaching availability, 2025 I’d like to do more teaching this year. I’ve taught and assessed responsible & ethical tech modules at both undergraduate and postgrad levels and am open to guest/visiting lecturer opportunities, or even whole modules if …
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Chris Coyier
Web craftsman, blogger, author, speaker.
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The Garden vs The River Robin Rendle quoting Chris Armstrong: … Chris [Armstrong] argues that personal websites could become more like wikis instead: With digital gardens, every new piece of content in the network has the potential to add depth …
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Christopher Butler
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100 Image Moodboard My aesthetic sensibilities represented in 100 images. These images are subject to change without warning.
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Clive Thompson – Medium
I write 3X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide.
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Why I’ve Started Playing With Legos A surprisingly great way to pull your brain away from your keyboardContinue reading on Medium »