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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: …
#algopop
Studying the appearance of algorithms in popular culture and everyday life.
By Matthew Plummer-Fernández.
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Updated 2 years ago
anderegg.ca
Something (slightly) less boring than nothing.
By Gavin Anderegg.
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More details on Bluesky’s subscription plan
Update: I had missed this, but the Bluesky team had already announced a subscription model was on the way. I had written this article assuming that was the news. What is new is the work …
By Gavin Anderegg, 365 words
Annoying Technology
Curates the daily annoyances in the technologies surrounding us.
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Manuel was annoyed
Your browser does not support the video tag. Amazingly, that was the second fail after I upgraded my work machine to Sequioa. Initially I was greeted by this screen – I didn’t bother making a …
asadrahman.io
Asad's online home.
By Asad Rahman.
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Updated 6 months ago
Some notes on freedom of speech
Some notes on freedom of speech TL; DR – To unlock the promise of freedom of speech, we need to pair it with the duty to be constructive. Without thoughtfulness, we have a less free, …
ASCII by Jason Scott
Jason Scott's Weblog.
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Updated 4 months ago
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 …
By Jason Scott, 3,023 words
as days pass by
scratched tallies on the prison wall.
By Stuart Langridge.
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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. …
The Autodidacts
Exploring the universe from the inside out.
By Curiositry, Adam, Immanuel.
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How to Migrate a Discourse Forum from DigitalOcean to Linveo
When we launched NeuroBB in 2015, as the first (and only) independent EEG, BCI, and neurofeedback discussion forum, we chose the forum software Discourse. We chose Discourse not because it is easy, but because it …
By Curiositry, 1,905 words
Benedict Evans — Essays
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Updated 4 months ago
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 …
By Benedict Evans, 2,840 words
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 …
Blood Knife - Editorial Archives
A digital magazine about cyberpunk, sci-fi, horror, neon, knives, blood, and capitalism.
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Updated a year ago
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 …
By Kevin Fox, Jr., 1,178 words
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, …
By James Bridle, 402 words
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.
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Ghost in the invoice machine
Working with bigger companies meant figuring out how to plug ourselves into lots of standard big-company processes. One of the processes we had to learn was how to tell customers how much money they owed …
cadence's weblog (personal blog)
A grab bag of stories, computers, photos, mind, and all the other thoughts that won't let me go.
By Cadence Ember.
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I managed to stop biting my nails
watch out!Some sections of this article make nail biting sound appealing. If you're currently avoiding biting your own nails, please be careful reading in case they make you want to bite. Remove sentences from the …
Caffeinspiration
Writing about tech, our minds, and how things work.
By Alex Ellis.
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Updated 8 months ago
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 …
Cal Bryant
An attempt to document my projects.
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Updated a month ago
Hacking GPS into the Meteor 75 Pro, a tiny FPV drone
Following on from my previous article I added GPS1 (well, GNSS) to my tiny drone – the Meteor 75 Pro. I wanted to add GPS so I could make use of GPS rescue in betaflight …
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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Updated 5 months ago
American impressions: the national future
Reflections on my time as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Elon University, North Carolina. 1. Elon University · 2. Flora and fauna · 3. Teaching technology ethics · 4. The sport · 5. Being a …
By Cennydd Bowles, 783 words
Chris Coyier
Web craftsman, blogger, author, speaker.
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2024-12-10 18:43
Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert join Adam and Jerod for a ShopTalk & Friends conversation on the viability of the web, making content, ads to support that content, CodePen’s future plans, books, side quests, and …
By Chris Coyier, 42 words
Christopher Butler
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The Books that Have Shaped My Technological Worldview
This is a personal collection, subject to change at any time. A Pattern Language, by Christopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein, and Sara IshikawaA classic on architecture and urban design that you’ll find on many lists like …
Clive Thompson – Medium
I write 3X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide.
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Updated a year ago
Why I’ve Started Playing With Legos
A surprisingly great way to pull your brain away from your keyboardContinue reading on Medium »
By Clive Thompson, 22 words