Better metaphors for community management than ‘social engineering’: ‘social gardening’, ‘social pickling’, ‘social brewing’, ‘social stewing’, ‘social mixtaping’

Engine Problems vs Crime Scene Problems: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/10/engine-problems-versus-crime-scene-problems/

Colour Clash: The Engineering Miracle of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/2018/09/29/loading-ready-run-sinclair-edition-the-zx-spectrum/

TempleOS: an educational tool for programming experiments - TechRepublic https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/software-engineer/templeos-an-educational-tool-for-programming-experiments/

Migration successful. My page (http version) is now running on gopherproxy-c. Unfortunately not without functionality loss. If you used my site as search engine, you need to replace the smiley with “q”. The redirect is now handled by nginx and nginx can not read emoji variables.

Manifesto for Minimalist Software Engineers | Minifesto.org http://minifesto.org/

This is a very hot take and also not a new one but here we go: the goal of a properly functioning software engineer is to obviate themselves, not by solving the customer’s specific problems but by blurring the line between using a computer and programming one to the point where users can solve their own problems.

Solar eclipses are hard to come by on Earth but common in space, so offworld magical research stations modeled after orreries offer bespoke nights, engineered syzygies, and break new frontiers in topological astrology

Lazyweb: are there good horror movies about sound engineering / foley other than LFO and Berberian Sound Studio?

An Engineer’s Guide to the Docuverse “ Rococo Modem Basilisk ” Medium https://medium.com/@/an-engineers-guide-to-the-docuverse-d080cdbb73a6

The Shape of Code » Premium mediocrity is software engineering’s demographic http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2018/05/21/premium-mediocrity-is-software-engineerings-demographic/

Over-engineering is under-engineering “ Baldur Bjarnason https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/under-engineering-websites/

#xmpp muc search engine: https://muclumbus.jabbercat.org

When I say ‘luckily software has nothing to do with business’, what I mean is that software is uniquely positioned, compared to all other engineering, to be free of economies of scale: it is cheap to develop and has near zero cost of reproduction.

Probability Theory (For Scientists and Engineers) https://betanalpha.github.io/assets/case_studies/probability_theory.html

Alan Kay Thesis: The Reactive Engine http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/pdfs/kay.htm

Reminder that I have 2 essays on escaping path-dependence: https://medium.com/@/the-manufacture-of-steam-engine-time-9f83cd24a9b0 & https://medium.com/@/the-wtf-awards-sketching-a-map-to-an-escape-from-steam-engine-time-1bc4bd29c2e4

Google’s Selfish Ledger is an unsettling vision of Silicon Valley social engineering - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/17/17344250/google-x-selfish-ledger-video-data-privacy

Impact Is Now Free & Open Source
My HTML5 Game Engine Impact launched almost 8 years ago. The last update was published in 2014. While Impact still works nicely in modern browsers, it lacks support for better graphic and sound APIs that are now available. I felt increasingly bad for selling a product that is hardly maintained or improved.

So as of today Impact will be available completely for free, published under the permissive MIT License.

Impact’s source is available on [gith … ⌘ Read more

@kas@enotty.dk, I didn’t think you are affiliated with it. Just wondered as I didn’t see what was special about it but I had to use a search engine to find out that the OS is Android. :D

Monktoberfest 2016: Bryan Cantrill - Oral Tradition in Software Engineering - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PaWFYm0kEw

Probability Theory (For Scientists and Engineers) https://betanalpha.github.io/assets/case_studies/probability_theory.html

A Taxonomy of Tech Debt | Riot Games Engineering https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/taxonomy-tech-debt

The manufacture of steam-engine time – Rococo Modem Basilisk – Medium https://medium.com/@/the-manufacture-of-steam-engine-time-9f83cd24a9b0

Programmer as wizard, programmer as engineer http://www.tedinski.com/2018/03/20/wizarding-vs-engineering.html

How to Hack an Engineer https://www.nemil.com/musings/hack-an-engineer.html

As a software engineer, being ignorant of sociology & psychology is just as bad as being ignorant of cryptography. Treat toxic communities the way you would treat any other security vulnerability: as an emergency.

Social engineering is engineering. When you design software used by people, the community is not an externality – it’s shaped by your design, & therefore your responsibility.

To avoid regrettable incidents, no single engineer - human or AI - is allowed to know the whole shape of the thing. Even hiveminds have to take care - Basilisk Three takes out several AI companies before its existence is recognized

The carefully shackled lab AIs finally surpass humans, but at about five human intelligences they end up scrambling themselves beyond recovery every time. Later models come with carefully engineered sets of blind spots to avoid what is later called Basilisk One

Engineered for Dystopia | David A. Banks https://thebaffler.com/latest/engineered-for-dystopia-banks

sitting in one of the windows together, immersed in a game of spotting the animals before they disappear again, only the engine’s hum in the background

Temples spring up all over the country for a new breed of memetically engineered gods, furiously picketed by established religions: “your gods are unnatural” “artificial religions are unsafe” “what if your doctrine mutates in the wild” “at least quarantine them”

How I Socially Engineer Myself Into High Security Facilities - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qv34zb/how-i-socially-engineer-myself-into-high-security-facilities

As VR becomes more realistic, users begin to carry reality checkers offline: Spinning tops, banned items, physics engine bug triggers

"Aesthetic Engine 2" by Vladimir Mitrovic - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAil0DzclFA

Clocks for Software Engineers http://zipcpu.com/blog/2017/09/18/clocks-for-sw-engineers.html

The other inflation hypothesis: Reverse engineering the universe’s compression algorithm from skybox glitches [pdf, ps, other]

We begin to get used to flood-caused Internet outages, but those bits of merfolknet that end up in search engine caches each time puzzle us

The secret lives of millionaire tech engineers who ‘rest and vest’ - Business Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/rest-and-vest-millionaire-engineers-who-barely-work-silicon-valley-2017-7?curator=MediaREDEF

Inside Patreon, the economic engine of internet culture - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/3/16084248/patreon-profile-jack-conte-crowdfunding-art-politics-culture

Culture - “Discovery Engine” Review http://tra38.github.io/blog/the-discovery-engine.html

In case of trouble with time-travelling assassins, break a time crystal, the shards really mess with their engines. Basically time caltrops.

One twists, distorts, turns inside out in a complicated maneuver without popping. You probably don’t want to be that engineer. Unsafe!

𝔚e will live as mice do, scurrying between their engines, living off scraps. Our children will not see the sun, only gears and coal dust.

ℑ fear that one day, the calculating engines may discover the secret of their manufacture and drown the world in their clockwork flesh.

Another reason you need oil refineries is that crude oil is full of ocean dwellers’ ghosts that you don’t want to haunt your engines

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Yeah, but yet a lot of sites are preparing the jump to http/2.0 with its inbelievable complexity. And even http/1.1 is probably a little bit over engineered.

when left to its own devices, a search engine will dream of links and networks, and lost in their abstract beauty hallucinate a second web

Should the ocean become eerily still, stop the engines and cease all movement. They feed on kinetic energy, such as your attempts of escape.