“We, programmers, are killing people. Our errors cause loss, injury, and death.”
“The Real Reason Fans Hate the Last Season of Game of Thrones - Scientific American Blog Network”
This was much better than I expected.
I kinda miss Escape Velocity. Used to be one of my favourite games back in the day.
“Why Are Cryptographers Being Denied Entry into the US? - Schneier on Security”
It’s starting to feel like proper spring here in Montréal. About time :-)
Meanwhile in Iceland:
It may sound a bit petty of me but I’m regularly annoyed by the stupid paper sizes used here in North America.
“Humans Don’t Hyperscale. Sorry, Silicon Valley”
“When will we wake up to the fact that hyperscaling is a euphemism and a cover for outright fraud.”
“The blessing and the curse of JavaScript frameworks - Go Make Things”
“Integrating Third-Party Animation Libraries to a Project - CSS-Tricks”
“Thoughts on the W3C’s May 2019 Advisory Board Election”
Agree 100% with everything in this post.
I wonder if there are any web-based open source/free software projects out there that are all-in on lambdas/cloud functions and aren’t developer-oriented? I get the sense that most FLOSS projects shy away from the implicit lock-in.
“A report from the AMP Advisory Committee Meeting – Terence Eden’s Blog”
Pretty sure the advisory committee only exists so that Google can deflect all criticism with “we have a robust AC filled with harsh critics”.
‘“A level sufficient to qualify as a vendetta” – Carrie Marshall: Bigmouth Strikes Again’
“Deric’s MindBlog: Ready to pounce - Cat smarts get some attention”
Basically, regularly upgrading your devices is pretty bad for the environment since most of the emissions are during production.
Casual weekend though: the ‘web as media’ and ‘web as apps’ are two different fields of practice supported by two different industries; two that were initially joined at the hip out of necessity but are now fast diverging.
“Strong Opinions Loosely Held Might be the Worst Idea in Tech”