Let’s destroy Bitcoin.

Three ways Bitcoin could be brought down, co-opted, or made irrelevant.

The Lost Tail.

Years ago I was obsessed with adding return statements to JavaScript code in Helma (I called those “holy returns”).

Nowadays I became obsessed hunting down variables leaking into the global JS namespace.

Not sure whether to file this under OCD…

Magenta Demos (via magenta.tensorflow.org).

A list of apps powered by Magenta models including fun toys, creative applications, research notebooks, and professional-grade tools that will benefit a wide range of users.

Web Share Target API (via github.com).

I’m constantly worried that on the web platform we are creating unintended silos by making it harder to get data in and out of web sites and apps, more importantly I worry that the data only flows one way: from the web to apps, because apps can be in all the places that users expect them to be on their devices.

Coney Island sheet music – of and for the people! (Via twitter.com.)

Relevant: Cross-country skiers looking like musical notes.

Remembering the ’70s activist group that tried to save us from the tech industry.

Computer People for Peace were ahead of their time.

This! In 1971. pic.twitter.com/hTbFq1gZff

— Simon aLindgren (@simonlindgren) January 10, 2018

Bitcoin Is Ridiculous. Blockchain Is Dangerous.

I knew I was supposed to have an opinion on how the web and the capital markets interacted, but I just wanted to write stuff and put it online. Or to talk about web standards—those documents, crafted by committees at the World Wide Web consortium, that defined the contract between a web browser and a web server, outlining how HTML would work. These standards didn’t define just software, but also culture; this was the raw material of human interaction. I could barely comprehend the new frontiers into which I awoke each morning.

Update: It’s Bandcamp’s Album of the Day.

Today I disabled registration of new accounts at p3k.org #dsgtfo #gdprssion