The Internet Needs More Friction - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3k9q33/the-internet-needs-more-friction
programmers_are_evil() - Live at LinuxFest NW 2018 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e6BKJPnb5o
Indistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4
Linux Sucks. Forever. - Filmed live at Linux Fest NW - April 28, 2018 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVHcdgrqbHE
The History of Unix, Rob Pike - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2NI6t2r_Hs
Band name of the day: where birds never lingered
Tech Workers Need to Keep Organizing https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/11/tech-worker-organizing-google-union-walkout
“Production Prolog” by Michael Hendricks - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_eYTctGZw8
Lambda World 2018 - What FP can learn from Smalltalk by Aditya Siram - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baxtyeFVn3w
William Gibson: The New Cyber/Reality - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVEUWfDHqsU
William Gibson on the dawn of the Internet - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUbm9dyITCY
Band name of the day: spooky electric
Was there staff overlap between Lain and Boogiepop Phantom? There’s an awful lot of style overlap…
Bad idea of the day: transpose Pretty Hate Machine into a major key, shift every word in the lyrics to the least semantically distant word with a more positive sentiment score, and call the result Pretty Great Machine
Raildex spicy take from a magic practitioner with an engineering degree: watch Railgun all the way through and skip Magidex completely. Ignore Touma when he appears in Railgun. He has never once done anything interesting.
The Fascinating World of Index/Railgun and Why You Should Watch It - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTJKfvZmDUM
Band name of the day: axis theory
‘Worse is better’ is not a justification – it is a tragedy, and one that folks who code in their free time are thankfully immune from needing to contribute to. So, y’know, don’t. You’re not on a deadline, so make something good, instead of something you regret.
‘Worse is better’ is a very insidious way of saying ‘give up and stop caring’, and should never be used as an excuse for anything. Anything that can be defended with ‘worse is better’ is worse & shouldn’t be tolerated.
Pet peeve: when people nitpick rhetorical flourishes in my examples while completely ignoring the main point. Hint: If I bring up the web or the macintosh, that doesn’t mean my essay is specifically about the web or the macintosh.
Band name of the day: combat agate
Band name of the day: sirius moonlite
SimCity, Cellular Automata, and Happy Tool for HyperLook (nee HyperNeWS (nee GoodNeWS)) https://medium.com/@donhopkins/hyperlook-nee-hypernews-nee-goodnews-99f411e58ce4
Constructive Technology Criticism Annotated Syllabus https://medium.com/tow-center/constructive-technology-criticism-annotated-syllabus-b7b46862cd20
Why the Enlightenment was not the age of reason | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/why-the-enlightenment-was-not-the-age-of-reason
The Case Against Quantum Computing - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/the-case-against-quantum-computing
DrKoop.com: C. Everett Koop’s Unlikely Dot-Com Play https://tedium.co/2018/11/15/c-everett-koop-drkoop-com-history/
Band name of the day: glory in defeat
Trilemma - Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilemma
Fallacies of distributed computing - Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_computing
The History of the GNU General Public License http://www.free-soft.org/gpl_history/
C Portability Lessons from Weird Machines https://begriffs.com/posts/2018-11-15-c-portability.html
Procedural Brutalism – BLDGBLOG http://www.bldgblog.com/2014/09/procedural-brutalism/
Band name of the day: wax cadavers
Band name of the day: upsettingly large fungus
Gamasutra: Florencia Minuzzi’s Blog - Restless “ Making A New Conversation UI http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/FlorenciaMinuzzi/20181114/330636/Restless__Making_A_New_Conversation_UI.php
Digital Philosophy II: Are Cellular Automata Important? https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/09/09/digital-philosophy-ii/
Digital Philosophy – I: The Real is Unreal https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/08/16/digital-philosophy-i/
Type inference - Eli Bendersky’s website https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2018/type-inference/
Plankalkül - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl
‘Free your mind and your ass will follow’ is absurdly optimistic. Freedom of mind is necessary but not sufficient for freedom of ass. In the short term, wokeness makes your life harder because you become aware of how bad things are.
Puzzle Montage Art by Tim Klein https://puzzlemontage.crevado.com/
Box Office Bomb: The Short Life of Popcorn Prediction Markets - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/11/15/18091620/box-office-futures-dodd-frank-mpaa-recession
Why There’s No Place Quite Like the American Garage - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-architecture-of-garages
misc/dyk2.md at master · enkiv2/misc · GitHub https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/nanogenmo-2018/dyk2.md
ufo-poems/ufo_poems.md at master · kevinhowbrook/ufo-poems · GitHub https://github.com/kevinhowbrook/ufo-poems/blob/master/ufo_poems.md
Tutorials That Don’t Talk Down To You - Context Sensitive Design - Extra Credits - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFdEEzgc7pg
Jeanine Adkisson - Design and Prototype a Language In Clojure - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1KVwoE3n28