“The Computer Girls” was a piece in @Cosmopolitan magazine in 1967 about a strange new field being dominated by women. The field was called “programming.”#coding #programming #girlswhocode #womenintechnology pic.twitter.com/ImadEm1Zld

— Toby Bartlett (@tobybartlett) October 10, 2020

Relevant: Computer Grrrls (en français).

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The Pragmatic Designer: Ur-Technical Debt.

Ur-technical debt is generally not detectable by static analysis. Despite that, there are plenty of tools that promise the world, and will examine your codebase and deliver a list of issues labeled “technical debt” for you to fix. Their output is a small fraction of the real debt because ur-technical debt happens when my ideas diverge from my code, and my thoughts are stubbornly hidden from static analysis tools.

Gladly, I also don’t listen to podcasts.

Is Your Favorite Podcast Tracking You?

Podcast listening is hard to track, but that doesn’t mean advertisers aren’t trying.

ZzFXM – A tiny JavaScipt music generator.

Based on the amazing ZzFX sound library, ZzFXM is a tiny music generator and toolkit designed for size-limited JavaScript productions.

Space Force One: The Complex Laws of Space Warfare.

NATO declared space as a new operational domain. Space-based infrastructure, critical to most aspects of modern lives, is a prime target and might be the first to get hit by counter-space weapons. But while the space arms race accelerates and space becomes another warfare arena, the laws of space warfare lag behind. The under-supply of rules meets a multilateral system almost incapable of adopting new legally binding rules. Moreover, multilateralism in general is increasingly contested and two existing arms control regimes collapsed in the past year. Is space underway to become a lawless war arena?

Degrowth and MMT: A thought experiment.

(…) remember, governments are happy to create money when it comes to financing wars and pumping up asset values, but when it comes to paying for public services, they say it’s not possible.

Autonomy Online: A Case For The IndieWeb.

There is an alternative to corporate bubbles online — it’s called the IndieWeb. Build your own personal websites, control your online presence, and learn on your own terms.

Grammato — Future is written.

Until now, every text has either been written by hand, or typeset with a font. With Grammato, we’re introducing a third approach, combining the best of both worlds: beautiful, infinitely smooth written text, where text keeps its semantics. Grammato is built on standard technologies, so it just works everywhere. Wherever you’ve only been using fonts, you can now use Grammato: in apps, social media, videos, interfaces, devices, operating systems, everywhere!

First time I heard of it and its binary, kak.

What you could steal from the Kakoune code editor right now, and get away with it.