The right right thing to do.

Am I happy? Am I generous? Am I contributing to the world? The moral struggle we face is finding a way to honestly and accurately answer ‘Yes’ to all three of these questions at once, over the course of a life that presents us with many obstacles to doing so.

If you can spare some time…

On Git Commit Messages.

The best reason for a good commit message is to help people understand the changes being made.

Sankey Networks of Far-right Radicalization Pathways.

Recently, I was given the chance to explore an online forum where subscribers to a neo-nazi website were sharing the media sources, groups, movements, and thinkers that were responsible for bringing them there. Better yet, participants in this forum were sharing their journeys chronoligically, mapping out for anyone that might be interested, the sources they consumed as their beliefs became more extreme.

Is the Secret to Saving Old Websites Simplifying Digital Preservation?

(…) I’m left to wonder if the problem is that the motivations for maintaining sites built around user-generated content simply do not favor preservation, and never will without outside influence.

From my own experience I can tell that even public national archives get much too little funding for preservation of digital artifacts.

We can do better than sociopathic business as usual.

(…) research found that the career with the highest proportion of psychopaths was… wait for it… not banker, not politician, not dentist… but CEO. Yikes!

Could someone do this for European countries, please?

The Markup Ran Tests on Every State’s COVID-19 Vaccine Website (via frontendfoc.us).

The results, measuring accessibility and privacy protections, were not always great.

The Last Prank Before PR Ruined Everything.

I’ve been carrying the secret for 25 years. Today, I'm coming clean. This is the untold true story of a corporate April Fools' prank gone wrong.

Stacked Git, StGit for short, is an application for managing Git commits as a stack of patches.

With a patch stack workflow, multiple patches can be developed concurrently and efficiently, with each patch focused on a single concern, resulting in both a clean Git commit history and improved productivity.

Prison Food, Abolitionist Geographies, and Food Sovereignty: Food as a Tool of Resistance.

Eating in prison is deeply political. Carceral institutions weaponize and transform the role of food provision into a tool of control, dehumanization, and state-sanctioned violence.

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