Two good and incoherent questions.
What Is Trauma-Informed Design?
What is Hammock-Driven Development?
Computer Science was always supposed to be taught to everyone, and it wasn’t about getting a job: A historical perspective.
The WIMP (overlapping Windows, Icons, Menus, and mouse Pointer) interface was invented in order to achieve computing education goals. For the purposes of education, the user interface that you are using right now was invented.
Relevant: “Software I’m thankful for.”
I am currently looking into Fish, the friendly interactive shell – or: “finally, a command line shell for the 90s”.
Relevant:
How animal uses of fire help to illuminate human pyrocognition.
Fire defines us as a species. Charles Darwin recognised this, claiming that fire was humanity’s second-greatest discovery, after language. Yet we haven’t devoted sufficient resources to examining the behaviour and cognition necessary to use and control it. We can get a complete picture only if we investigate the pyrocognition of humans and animals, alongside the established perspectives on the origins of fire.
Make Amazon Pay!
Hypersurveillance Turbocapitalism.
Infiltrating Amazon: What I learned going undercover at the corporate giant.
Every day as I started my shift, I would don our robotic armature. We would grab what’s called a TCI device—which looks like a giant smartphone—and strap it to one arm, and with the other hand pick up a scanner. We’d log into our device, and from that moment on no longer be in control of our actions. Instead, this device would determine where we would go, what tasks we would be doing, and how good an employee we were.
Illusory Material is a design methodology, computational workflow that breaks down design medium into 'matters', restructuring and reinventing materiality to create unique expressions, forms, properties and experiences.
How the Internet really works, meanwhile.
Digging Deeper: Assessing Big Tech’s Capture of the Internet’s Infrastructure (via steadyhq.com).
By 2022, it is estimated that the annual global internet traffic will reach 4.8 zettabytes or 4,800,000,000,000 GB. That is the equivalent of 150,000 full-length movies flowing through the internet in a single second – a 1,000 percent increase in web traffic from just 20 years ago.
Solidarity with the Other – and your future self.
I hurt therefore I am: a new approach to our shared vulnerability.
The good things associated with disability do not balance or outweigh the bad things for me. They are not commensurate. I can experience solidarity in many areas of my life, but I would prefer it to come without pain and restriction.