“Unless Explicitly Specified Otherwise, Open Source Software With Users Carries Moral Obligations”
This is true and it’s also one of the reasons why OSS maintainers burn out.
Mastodon and Bluesky present interesting contrasts.
On Mastodon you can expect a lot of replies, many which are aggressive or off-base
Bluesky users OTOH seem to react to even the mildest aside as an attack and respond with a “fuck you too” reply and mute/block
“I Will Fucking Haymaker You If You Mention Agile Again”
Which absolute fucking maniac in this room decided that the most sensible thing to do in a culture where everyone has way too many meetings was schedule recurring meetings every day?
Tried to watch an episode of the 2017 Twin Peaks revival series and couldn’t even get through a single episode.
And I’m a huge fan of the original series. Not sure what’s going on there.
“Not setting up Find My bricked my MacBook | TokyoDev”
Yikes.
“AI is Becoming a Band-Aid over Bad, Broken Tech Industry Design Choices - Scientific American”
Makes me think of what Weizenbaum said about computers being a conservative force in society.
“The Three Cs: Concatenate, Compress, Cache – Harry Roberts – Web Performance Consultant”
“The Techno-Optimist Manifesto | Andreessen Horowitz”
This manifesto is one of the more horrific documents I’ve read lately, largely because of how normalised its rhetoric has become
It’s fascism. Like falangism with the catholicism swapped out for the prosperity doctrine
Might as well link to this again, since I’m here:
“The Elegiac Hindsight of Intelligent Machines”
On how the software we’re making today is the opposite of the software we need.
This week’s notes post! www.baldurbjarnason.com/2023/week…
Has notes on burnout in the industry, links to the book extract I published, an almost announcement, cat pictures, and more.
“Report finds few open source projects actively maintained | InfoWorld”
Strongly considering unsubscribing from Disney + and only resubscribing when the next season of Only Murders is out. (Only Murders is on D+ outside of the states.)
“Adactio: Journal—Increment by increment”
That’s great company to be in.
‘“Maybe I’ll never feel that motivation again.” | by Sara Wachter-Boettcher | Nice Work | Medium’
So, for this #caturday I’d like to celebrate the fact that my sister’s rescue, Kolka, has been with her for over a year. Starting off as a skittish semi-feral who we worried would never acclimate to people. Now she loves meeting people and getting scritches
We’re not far from not having a Web left. It’s been so captured by pathologies of command and control that it’s falling apart at the seams and life is draining from it
“We need web progress, not pessimism”
I disagree with the premise of this post. Progress requires a recognition of what needs to be fixed and what needs to be replaced and that’s always going to be seen as negative and pessimistic
“Meta in Myanmar, Part IV: Only Connect”
Our new platforms and tools for global connection have been born into a moment in which the worst and most powerful bad actors, both political and commercial, are already prepared to exploit every vulnerability.
I just published “The Elegiac Hindsight of Intelligent Machines”
It’s essentially the finale to my book, The Intelligence Illusion, extracted into an essay and as such is much more of a personal take on the state of modern software than the rest of the book.