Jef Raskin
Raskin’s humane ideals live on in obvious ways, to the benefit of anyone using a graphical computer today—undo everywhere, discoverability, and consistent commands and shortcuts are now interface common sense. But the deeper thread, the ethos that inspired him and others in the tradition of computers as tools for thought, survived mostly outside the mainstream. It persists in systems that never had to sell millions of units or satisfy quarterly targets, that never had to justify their existence to the mass of people using PCs—tools that could afford to remain strange, open, and humane on their own terms. Emacs, Oberon, and Smalltalk belong here, but so do newer experiments like Uxn and 9front.
The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review.
A key part of having a reviewable PR is writing commits that tell a story. Present your changes incrementally and logically so reviewers can follow your thought process. Generic commit messages such as "add dependency," "implement file upload feature," and "address PR feedback" don’t tell much of a story and leave reviewers guessing. Why was the dependency added? What were the specific steps in creating the file uploader feature? What feedback is being addressed?
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Der schöne Film.
Ich hab »Der schöne Tag« von Thomas Arslan im Filmmuseum Wien gesehen und wollte, konnte aber nicht, möchte jedenfalls noch mehr Filme von ihm sehen.
Cap'n Web: a new RPC system for browsers and web servers.
A quiz a day keeps the ignorance at bay.
Guess the country in red by analysing today's chart.
Relevant: DataGuessr.
History of the GEM Desktop Environment.
How a gem was cut and then lost.
From the “Alle gegen alle” dept.
Apocalypse now? Why tech billionaires are suddenly hoarding doomsday mega-bunkers.
What people who build mega-bunkers never understand (…) is that “successful prepping is a team sport. In order to survive, your neighbors have to survive. Either that, or they will be banging on the door of your bunker, pulling you out, and killing you anyway.”
Zerstörungslust. Elemente des demokratischen Faschismus.
Der rechte Anhang hat das Gefühl, „ausgenutzt und zum Außenseiter gemacht zu werden, obwohl man sich zu den Etablierten zählt“ und „nicht gesehen zu werden, obwohl man sich in der Mehrheit wähnt“.
Enjoy the World Wide Web.
Octothorpes are hashtags and backlinks that can be used on regular websites, connecting pages across the open internet regardless of where they're hosted.