Edward Gorey’s macabre tarot deck from 1966 / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/12/18/edward-goreys-macabre-tarot.html

A Professional Safecracker Reveals His Craft - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/12/professional-safecracker-reveals-his-craft/577897/

The Unlikely New Generation of Unabomber Acolytes http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/the-unabomber-ted-kaczynski-new-generation-of-acolytes.html

Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the Web over to | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/the-web-now-belongs-to-google-and-that-should-worry-us-all/

Aquaman pays homage to H.P. Lovecraft. It’s his worst nightmare. https://slate.com/culture/2018/12/aquaman-movie-hp-lovecraft-racism-miscegenation.html

Political tribalism in Trump’s America: what Andrew Sullivan gets wrong - Vox https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/11/18131370/andrew-sullivan-religion-tribalism-christianity-trump

PewDiePie vs. T-Series and Rewind 2018: the battle for YouTube, explained - Vox https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/12/14/18138916/pewdiepie-vs-t-series-youtube-rewind-2018

Rewriting Pagenode
Today I released Pagenode – a project that I started 14 years ago. Pagenode began its life as a full-fledged Content Management System and now, after countless rewrites, became a simple library. Pagenode’s journey mimics my own as a developer. Its current iteration expresses my desire for simplicity.

In 2004, after dabbling a bit with PHP and finally grasping MySQL I set out to build my own CMS. I previously looked at a lot of different CMSes on the market and found all of them to … ⌘ Read more

The Enduring American Outrage of “Network” | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/17/the-enduring-american-outrage-of-network

Rich People Are Getting Away With Not Paying Their Taxes - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/12/rich-people-are-getting-away-not-paying-their-taxes/577798/

Infomercial Dark Patterns: How the App Store Recreates TV Scams https://tedium.co/2018/12/11/infomercials-history-dark-patterns/

At the Very Least We Know the End of the World Will Have a Bright Side https://longreads.com/2018/12/12/solarpunk-review/

It’s the End of News As We Know It (and Facebook Is Feeling Fine) – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/media/2018/12/facebook-propaganda-trump/

William Gibson | Part 1 | Jan. 12, 2012 | Appel Salon - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFewCiRaGiU

Reflections on DOOM’s Development — Rome.ro https://rome.ro/news/2018/12/10/reflections-on-dooms-development

Cragne Manor, an 84-room horror “exquisite corpse” text adventure that’s a tribute to the classic game Anchorhead / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/12/09/massively-multi-developer.html

JIRA is an antipattern – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/09/jira-is-an-antipattern/

Why You Should Never, Ever Use Quora – Waxy.org https://waxy.org/2018/12/why-you-should-never-ever-use-quora/

Internet Content Filter History: Filtering Out the Bad Stuff https://tedium.co/2018/12/06/internet-content-filters-history/

Teaching kids to code: I’m a developer and I think it doesn’t actually teach important skills. https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/12/against-teaching-kids-to-code-creativity-problem-solving.html

Monopoly vs. the Magic Cape https://longreads.com/2018/12/05/monopoly-vs-the-magic-cape/

Your Q Anon Exit Briefing – Violent metaphors https://violentmetaphors.com/2018/12/04/your-q-anon-exit-briefing/

Are smartphones bad for you? The science is still out - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/5/18126154/screen-time-smartphones-bad-health-risk-science-study-wrong-depression-anxiety

Broken Chain Restaurants: When Fast Food Franchises Go Solo https://tedium.co/2018/12/04/broken-chains-fast-food-restaurants/

The Friendship That Made Google Huge | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship-that-made-google-huge

Tumblr’s adult-content ban could doom it with fandom communities. https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/tumblr-fandom-adult-content-ban-livejournal.html

While we Blink, we loose the Web https://andregarzia.com/2018/12/while-we-blink-we-loose-the-web.html

The Fun Is Back in Social Media…Again! https://kottke.org/18/12/the-fun-is-back-in-social-mediaagain

MST3K creator Joel Hodgson on 30 years of making fun of movies. https://slate.com/culture/2018/12/mst3k-joel-hodgson-interview-netflix.html

Save the Cat (Blake Snyder) | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/12/04/save-the-cat-blake-snyder/

Fractal structure produces fractal electrons with fractal energies | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/fractal-structure-produces-fractal-electrons-with-fractal-energies/

Complex networks study ranks the most influential films of all time | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/study-finds-the-wizard-of-oz-is-the-most-influential-film-of-all-time/

Edward Gorey’s Enigmatic World | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/edward-goreys-enigmatic-world

Project Troy: The Science of Cold War Psychological Warfare - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/12/project-troy-science-cold-war-psychological-warfare/576847/

World States and Mega Empires in SF | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/11/12/world-states-and-mega-empires-in-sf/

The Well-Being Machine https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/06/12/the-well-being-machine/

The Source History of Cat https://twobithistory.org/2018/11/12/cat.html

Postmodernism Did Not Take Place: On Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life - Viewpoint Magazine https://www.viewpointmag.com/2018/01/23/postmodernism-not-take-place-jordan-petersons-12-rules-life/

Homogeneous Operating Systems Are Better https://ecc-comp.blogspot.com/2014/12/homogeneous-operating-systems-are-better.html

The Forth Methodology of Charles Moore by Jeff Fox 12/09/01 http://www.ultratechnology.com/method.htm

Why Doctors Hate Their Computers | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-hate-their-computers

Are.na / Blog “ Women in Hypertext: On Judy Malloy and Cathy Marshall’s Forward Anywhere https://www.are.na/blog/case%20study/2018/06/12/women-in-hypertext.html

David Bunch’s Prophetic Dystopia | by Jeff VanderMeer | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/09/12/david-bunchs-prophetic-dystopia/

Homogeneous Operating Systems Are Better https://ecc-comp.blogspot.com/2014/12/homogeneous-operating-systems-are-better.html

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I thought so too. Color me surprised when I surveyed my follow programmers in my dept and only 3 out 12 knew what I was talking about.

Taking note: Luhmann’s Zettelkasten http://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/luhmanns-zettelkasten.html

The 10:1 rule of writing and programming https://www.ybrikman.com/writing/2018/08/12/the-10-to-1-rule-of-writing-and-programming/

So you bought a ghost town | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/5605/ghost-town-owners-12-million

Peterson’s Complaint https://longreads.com/2018/07/12/petersons-complaint/

Flexi Disc History: Vinyl‘s Thinner Cousin https://tedium.co/2018/06/12/flexi-disc-history/