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I have joined the IndieWeb
I have joined the IndieWeb
The collapse of Twitter last year got me thinking about closed platforms and reducing the hold that privately-owned silos have over the Internet.
·blog.rubenwardy.com·
I have joined the IndieWeb
Why in any company you should be using version control for anything - how we use Github not only for code, but also for writing!
Why in any company you should be using version control for anything - how we use Github not only for code, but also for writing!
At Nozbe among all the apps we use to run our company, we also take advantage of Github’s implementation of Git - the version control system - because when many people work on code, things can quickly fall through the cracks if you’re not using a version control system.
·michael.team·
Why in any company you should be using version control for anything - how we use Github not only for code, but also for writing!
The Case Against Everything Buckets — Alex Payne
The Case Against Everything Buckets — Alex Payne
The Mac software ecosystem faces a plague. A plague of Everything Buckets. Indulge me. If you search for “productivity” or “organization” software for the Mac, you’ll find variations on a particular type of application. These applications claim to be “your outboard brain” or “your digital filing c
·web.archive.org·
The Case Against Everything Buckets — Alex Payne
Twitter Clients Are a UI Design Playground
Twitter Clients Are a UI Design Playground
The most interesting product of Twitter’s popularity, to me, has been the explosion of Twitter API client software.
·daringfireball.net·
Twitter Clients Are a UI Design Playground
Old Internet Junk! | Dinosaur Dracula!
Old Internet Junk! | Dinosaur Dracula!
I first went online in 1995, back when you paid by the hour for an extremely slow connection. At the time, my concept of the internet only went as far as what America Online would show me. Actual websites existed, of course, but between the slow speed and my unfamiliarity, I mostly stuck with chat rooms,span class="readmore"a href="https://dinosaurdracula.com/blog/old-internet-junk/"Read More/a/span
·dinosaurdracula.com·
Old Internet Junk! | Dinosaur Dracula!
Thought Legos
Thought Legos
Today the book is already… an outdated mediation between two different filing systems. For everything that matters is to be found in the card box of the researcher who wrote it, and the scholar studying it assimilates it into his own card index. - Walter Benjamin
·subconscious.substack.com·
Thought Legos
Multi-layered calendars
Multi-layered calendars
Calendars cover the entire spectrum of time. Past, present and future. They are the closest thing we have to a time machine. Calendars allow us to travel forward in time and see the future. More importantly, they allow us to change the future.
·julian.digital·
Multi-layered calendars
The beauty of finished software
The beauty of finished software
Let me introduce you to WordStar 4.0, a popular word processor from the early 80s. WordStar 4.0 As old as it seems, George R.R. Martin used it to write “A Song of Ice and Fire”. Why would someone use such an old piece of software to write over 5,000 pages? I love how he puts it: It does everything I want a word processing program to do and it doesn't do anything else.
·josem.co·
The beauty of finished software
DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs
DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs
Hi. My name is Cabel. And I’ve probably got the neatest job in the whole world. I wear many hats. But here on my personal blog, I get to write about the things I really care about, just for y…
·cabel.com·
DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs