Substrate

A case of dis-functional programming.

A talk at the Difficult to Name reading series about the disappearing web and what we can do to stop it.

Jersey City-based artist/engineer Jenn Schiffer makes art with code, teaches code with art, and open-source tools for playing with both. Her hilariously deadpan writing satirizes tech culture and programming tutorials, roping in clueless mansplainers for literally years after publication. Follow Jenn on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jennschiffer And on Medium: https://medium.com/@jennschiffer Her official site: http://jennmoney.biz/ Recorded in September 2016 at XOXO, an experimental festival celebrating independently produced art and technology in Portland, Oregon. For more, visit http://xoxofest.com. Introductory music: "Flaws Run Deep" by Jim Guthrie. Video production by brytCAST. Video thumbnail by Searle Video. Captions by White Coat Captioning.

aah I love this How To Make Coffee choose-your-own-adventure comic my coworker @akvanh made for the @honeycombio kitchen!! \o/✨my favourite is the "cleanup" step (: pic.twitter.com/NYRb08C3vq— daiyi! ✨ (chris) (@daiyitastic) January 31, 2019

Everyone else had invested years into optimizing for the most legible version of the rules. They’d look silly if they were to admit she had found a better way of doing things. The shameless strategy feels counterintuitive, because our first instinct is to want to punish that sort of behavior. And historically, those sanctions have been effective. Punishing outlandish behavior is an important aspect of cooperative governance: it preserves social order by ensuring that we all play by the same rules. One explanation might be that it’s an expected effect of the blurring of social boundaries today. In the past, if the size of your community was finitely bounded (like a village, or an aristocratic social class), people didn’t enter or exit these communities as frequently. Under these conditions, sanctions are probably still effective. But the borders to online communities are much more fluid - perhaps even nonexistent. Under open borders, sanctions will backfire, because they just serve as a signaling boost for the transgressor, attracting outsiders who resonate with that person’s message. What’s meant to be punishment instead becomes a flare shot straight into the night sky.

File issues about the problem you’ve observed or the outcome you want, not about the approach you think should be taken to resolve them.— Rob Rix‎ (@rob_rix) January 31, 2019

“1 like = 1 fun number theory fact”

I never make products because I want to make money while I sleep or hear beeps on my phone alerting me of sales, while I sit around in my underpants. I make products because I enjoy making things and providing value to others. I also make products because I enjoy actively doing work. I don’t care about the easy road or hacking the system to make money without effort. I like making money because there’s effort involved. It’s hard work, and it feels good.

Interpersonal legibility is approximated by how quickly a stranger can grok you. Choosing how legible we want to appear involves making an interesting trade-off.On one extreme we can become a Del

“A pretty great illustration of the human impact on “just math” algorithms from @djrupture’s excellent Uproot”

This domain may be for sale!

“More of us are moving through very public spaces in our own bubbles, only removing them when it’s time to explicitly connect with another human.”

There comes a time in the life of every organism when it begins to decline. Its best days are behind it. Ominous signs of decay abound. The end can be envisioned — it’s no longer an abstract enti

“FaceTime is still broken but that's ok because @bb_fresh and I just dropped a video on what to do in a situation like this https://t.co/49iWjsPce9”

~ y'all i have a new project ~▱▱▱▱ MUSHY ▱▱▱▱is a free asset pack of neural network generated isometric tiles, for use in your projects. its a real horrorshow!! https://t.co/nEYh7ZISku pic.twitter.com/T1TA4OpK3Q— everest (@everestpipkin) January 30, 2019

“I also sketched an app called Broadway in 2009, which became the first iOS app we ever wrote at @lickability, when it was just me and @bcapps as high-schoolers. https://t.co/xBHwasiXjz”

“I have decided to make an ongoing thread of random things I like that I would recommend to other people”

“@wgalyean What non-public channels are most important to you?”

“Want to see a really bad bug? You can FaceTime any iOS device running 12.1 and listen in remotely—WITHOUT THE OTHER PERSON ANSWERING THE CALL. (via @bzamayo) https://t.co/Zd4DSeM1WV”

“excited about rural electric meters”