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Tim Bray recently wrote some thoughts on picking a new typeface for programming. He then posted a followup with even more options. These articles struck a chord with me, and I thought it would be …

Let’s ignore for a moment how extremely annoying it is that any remotely useful app these days has to jump through these hoops and build a dialog like this, explaining to people how to make …

Surfing radio waves TL; DR – I listened to the radio in my late teens and early 20s, as much as I listen to podcasts today. They symbolise different things: both in my life, and …

In 1701, Asano Naganori, a feudal lord in Japan, was summoned to the shogun’s court in Edo, the town now called Tokyo. He was a provincial chieftain, and knew little about court etiquette, and the …

A couple of years ago, I wrote an essay arguing that Netflix is a ‘TV company’, not a ‘tech company’, simply on the basis that all the questions that matter for it are TV questions. …

Cross Platform Software Frameworks 🔗 The other day, I came across Elk Native, a native version of the rather excellent, if early-stage, Mastodon Web client Elk. To be honest, I wondered why they would build …

Seagrass conservation is critical for mitigating climate change due to the large stocks of carbon they sequester in the seafloor. However, effective conservation and its potential to provide nature-based solutions to climate change is hindered …

This post is all about logging in to phpBB through manually constructed requests. Once you're logged in, scraping the forum is up to you. You can use the usual techniques for it, just be sure …

In the whirlwind that was the last fortnight, I never properly shared the big project I shipped at the ICO. Designers, PMs, and engineers: this is for you.Under GDPR (article 25), a data controller has …

I enjoyed this podcast with Susan Rogers who’s new book This is What it Sounds Like digs into why we like the songs we like. Susan unpacks the seven dimensions of music and how they …

While rummaging in the WIRED magazine archives, I found this entry from 1995. In it, Douglas Copeland imagines a “reverse time capsule,” sent back to 1975 and wonders what in it would be most surprising …

New research suggests Zoom brought not just fatigue — but genuine connectionContinue reading on Medium »

I’ve been thinking a lot about failure lately. Failure comes in many forms, but I’m especially interested in situations in which people *perceive* something as failing (or about to fail) and the contestations over failure …

A survey on the need for updating the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol standards recently closed. Having been in existence since 2004 (with scope 2 and scope 3 guidance published in 2015 and 2013), it is …

Intern Taylor Fox contributed to this blog post. At the height of the George Floyd protests in 2020, the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) spied on thousands of demonstrators in real time by using a …

the wheel of software delivery keeps on turning

The horrific proposed anti-transgender legislation in the United States has a lot of people afraid, and the word “genocide” is being used like it’s going out of style. That’s both wrong and dangerous. You’ve probably …

The gift of Broadscale Linguistic Affinely Regressed Neurally Encoded Yakking By Simplified from “leprechaun robot” Neil L. is sentient. As a fantastical creature, that is his most important attribute. Today we ask whether Neil has …

For all the disappointment over the lack of spectacular cyber warfare in Ukraine, there’s very little interest in the “textbook cyberwar” scenarios unfolding around Iran. Albania has just severed diplomatic ties with Iran over the …