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Splash Screen History: Like Title Cards, for Apps
Splash Screen History: Like Title Cards, for Apps
Discussing the legacy of splash screens, those annoying windows that appear when you’re trying to load up a giant program on your desktop machine.
·tedium.co·
Splash Screen History: Like Title Cards, for Apps
I force-closed my apps for 3 days. It made me kinda hate my phone.
I force-closed my apps for 3 days. It made me kinda hate my phone.
I'll say up front that I don’t judge anyone who force-closes their apps. This experiment was fulfilling a personal curiosity and I'm generally not in the business of telling people who are using their computers in ways that make them happy that they're wrong. Context I've never, ever force
·birchtree.me·
I force-closed my apps for 3 days. It made me kinda hate my phone.
How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)
How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)
How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.
·ploum.net·
How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)
Seven Rules For Internet CEOs To Avoid Enshittification
Seven Rules For Internet CEOs To Avoid Enshittification
It seems that we’ve had a rash of formerly loved internet services going down the enshittification curve. As coined (brilliantly) by Cory Doctorow, enshittification is the process by which a compan…
·techdirt.com·
Seven Rules For Internet CEOs To Avoid Enshittification
Moderation in a Public Commons
Moderation in a Public Commons
In this post, we share why we believe a public commons is important for social media, as well as some proposals for moderation and safety tooling.
·blueskyweb.xyz·
Moderation in a Public Commons
Why Has Mastodon Adoption Stalled?
Why Has Mastodon Adoption Stalled?
Link to: https://blog.bloonface.com/2023/06/12/why-did-the-twittermigration-fail/
·daringfireball.net·
Why Has Mastodon Adoption Stalled?
John Gruber Doesn't Know What He's Talking About
John Gruber Doesn't Know What He's Talking About
A legendary blogger weighs in on reactions from a user-run social network towards a big corporation diving into the space.
·wedistribute.org·
John Gruber Doesn't Know What He's Talking About
Why did the #TwitterMigration fail?
Why did the #TwitterMigration fail?
I’ve been using fediverse stuff (Mastodon and, most recently, Calckey – I’m just going to use “Mastodon” as shorthand here, purists can bite me) for over a year now, a…
·blog.bloonface.com·
Why did the #TwitterMigration fail?
Follow the AI/ML Leaders: De-Risk Your Projects
Follow the AI/ML Leaders: De-Risk Your Projects
In the world of AI and machine learning, the choice of a database can significantly affect the success of your project.
·thenewstack.io·
Follow the AI/ML Leaders: De-Risk Your Projects
Top 8 Cloud Computing Trends in 2023 - HackerRank Blog
Top 8 Cloud Computing Trends in 2023 - HackerRank Blog
A look at 8 cloud computing trends — including AI, cloud-native architecture, and edge computing — that will impact the industry in 2023.
·hackerrank.com·
Top 8 Cloud Computing Trends in 2023 - HackerRank Blog
How to Choose the Right Identity Resolution System
How to Choose the Right Identity Resolution System
As the customer journey has become more complex, these systems have become an increasingly popular way to automate the merging of different identifiers.
·thenewstack.io·
How to Choose the Right Identity Resolution System
Meta and Mastodon – What’s really on people’s minds?
Meta and Mastodon – What’s really on people’s minds?
​ There has been a lot of chatter about the decision of some instances on Mastodon to pre-emptively block Meta’s purported new ActivityPub-compatible service: Dare Obasanjo: It’s a weird own …
·ianbetteridge.com·
Meta and Mastodon – What’s really on people’s minds?
Is AI a snake that eats itself?
Is AI a snake that eats itself?
Photo by Levart_Photographer on Unsplash Whenever you read a piece about OpenAI, ChatGPT, or ChatBots, the common refrain is that it is a massive manifestation of the concept of garbage-in-garbage-…
·om.co·
Is AI a snake that eats itself?
Stream Data Across Multiple Regions and Clouds with Kafka
Stream Data Across Multiple Regions and Clouds with Kafka
A look at various architectures and use cases for multiple Kafka clusters, all with trade-offs in effort, cost and risks. Make sure you understand them.
·thenewstack.io·
Stream Data Across Multiple Regions and Clouds with Kafka
What Infrastructure as Code Must Do for CI/CD
What Infrastructure as Code Must Do for CI/CD
At Pulumi’s virtual user conference, speakers dug deep into which IaC features can benefit fast software development the most.
·thenewstack.io·
What Infrastructure as Code Must Do for CI/CD