Retiring Pinafore
Five years ago, I started a journey to build a better Mastodon client – one focused on performance and simplicity. And I did! Pinafore is the main Mastodon client I’ve used myself since I fir…
End of an era. Thanks for the experience, @nolan@toot.cafe. https://nolanlawson.com/2023/01/09/retiring-pinafore/
I got this book https://bookshop.org/p/books/what-the-dormouse-said-how-the-sixties-counterculture-shaped-the-personal-computer-industry-john-markoff/11692127?ean=9780143036760 off a whim - I'm always curious to learn about computing decades before me because those things (for better or worse, mostly worse) influence how and where we go next. Like, imagine if Microsoft never existed? Or HP? Or even something as core to the US government like Xerox? It doesn't cover that, but it's easier to imagine and speculate about with more historical context.
Clive Thompson (@clive@saturation.social)
People write about TikTok's "for you" recommendations as "eerily good", "mind reading", "spooky" -- and it does seem considerably better than its social-media rivalsBut odds are there's nothing remarkable about the algorithm itselfRecommender systems are pretty mature -- it's unlikely (though not impossible) Bytedance found some new concept nobody else knowsNo, the secret ingredient is more likely ...... the UI:My essay: https://medium.com/@clivethompson/maybe-tiktoks-algorithm-isn-t-particularly-remarkable-after-all-712a5d2bae40"Friend" link: https://clivethompson.medium.com/maybe-tiktoks-algorithm-isn-t-particularly-remarkable-after-all-712a5d2bae40?sk=3ffbf858464e3462fb3d5a84259d27de
Do you have a non-Medium URL that I can view/share? Trying to promote more personal sites versus silos.
You have to be kidding me. https://donotlink.me/https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/valve-web3-games-have-a-place-on-steam/. Another outlet to pull out from.
Another reminder to read https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1481-a-people-s-guide-to-capitalism. If you're someone who doesn't like the concept of people being poor, being underpaid and want a clear explanation with historical notes and references through a pretty inclusive lens, it's a great read. I'm reading it again this year (and I might do it again, probably two more times before starting Capital myself).
Time for me to replace Gitea with Forgejo. Maybe we'll finally get some decent code collaboration logic built in. I'd love to see something that'd enable more of that without vendor lock-in. So we can actually have a open coding community.
How do people find other repositories of similar topics on SourceHut? Do you ... not?
This year, I plan to get deeper into the things that I love. I love games. So I've spent more time getting not only getting my game libraries in order, but I'm looking to collect achievements from older ones and my recent ones into a searchable achievement wall on my site. That'll be my first nudge and example of leaning on making archives of such achievements. It'll be fun.
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Chris's Wiki :: blog/python/DebianNoMorePython2
lang-team/2022-11-25-contracts.md at 66a43b3ffb8ae3d2a4ba1e5a43864b1f92876409 · rust-lang/lang-team
You Want Modules, Not Microservices
Dissecting why everybody keeps talking about microservices.