Twitter, let's talk about decentralization and federation and trust and why movements towards federated systems like Mastadon are maybe not where we want to be throwing effort and adoption drives behind if the end goal is privacy-preserving infrastructure.

— Sarah Jamie Lewis (@SarahJamieLewis) March 25, 2018

It's time to rebuild the web.

(…) we'd have to admit that our current web, with all its flaws, evolved from these simple building blocks. To some extent, then, it's what we wanted—or, perhaps, what we deserved. It's certainly what we accepted, and begs the question: "why wouldn't we accept the same thing again?" Starting over means little if we're destined to repeat the mistakes we've already made.

Peepeth is a decentralized alternative to Twitter (via reddit.com).

It's unstoppable and uncensorable because it runs on the Ethereum blockchain. No company or government controls the data on Peepeth.

Abusing Proxies for DSLs.

Disclaimer: Writing code like this can lead to both the browser and your coworkers hating you. Code like this can be very difficult to test and is going to be slower than just writing code with good old-fashioned functions and sweat. Older browsers will not run this code at all. Consider yourself warned.

Cytoscape.js – Graph theory / network library for analysis and visualisation.

Why Zuckerberg’s 14-year Apology Tour Hasn’t Fixed Facebook.

I’m going to run out of space here, so let’s jump to 2018 and skip over all the other mishaps and apologies and promises to do better (…)

100 years later, Bolshevism is back. And we should be worried.

(…) the most influential contemporary Bolsheviks — the people who began, like Lenin and Trotsky, on the extremist fringes of political life and who are now in positions of power and real influence in several Western countries — come from a different political tradition altogether

New study challenges beliefs about organic agriculture.

(…) while a “smart integration of both types of agriculture” might be most desirable overall, “ideological barriers between supporters and opponents of organic agriculture need to be overcome to pave the way for developing and implementing more sustainable forms of farming.”

Why the Web 3.0 Matters and you should know about it.

While the Web 2.0 democratized many power structures and created new opportunities, the economic engine is largely privatized and monopolized. Facebook, Uber and AirBnB have created private networks for public infrastructure which they dominate. The Web 3.0 is the antithesis of this, it’s about multiple profit centers sharing value across an open network.

Rule of thumb: everyone is selling your data.