Saturday, 16. December 12017
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Guide: Hosting DAT Archives from a Server.

The State of JavaScript 2017.

A short survey about current popular JavaScript technologies.

Learning About Cities by Mapping Their Smells.

The English artist Kate McLean is trying to preserve our olfactory memory.

The 1968 Demo.

Experience the "Mother of All Demos" presented by Doug Engelbart and team December 9th, 1968.

Why don’t software development methodologies work?

Relevant: Falsehoods programmers believe about programming.

Systemisches Konsensieren ist ein besonderer Weg der gemeinsamen Entscheidungsfindung oder Entscheidungsvorbereitung.

Als „Konsensieren“ bezeichnen wir den kreativen Prozess der Suche nach der bestmöglichen Näherung an den Konsens, also nach der größtmöglichen Übereinstimmung unter Menschen. „Systemisch“ nennen wir den hier beschriebenen Prozess deshalb, weil er systembedingt zu einem konstruktiven und kooperativen Verhalten aller Beteiligten führt, ohne von ihrem guten Willen oder sonstigen Eigenschaften abhängig zu sein.

This is such a hilarious piece of text.

I Made My Shed the Top Rated Restaurant On TripAdvisor.

I place the pair's dishes down, move away and, observing from a distance, watch them stare at their Mac n Cheese. Maria takes out her phone for a photo, looks at the meal through her camera, pauses, then puts her phone away without taking a picture.

I Don't Like Your Examples!

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Tuesday, 5. December 12017
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What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?

Who is this “we” that’s always turning up in critical writing anyway? We is an escape hatch. We is cheap. We is a way of simultaneously sloughing off personal responsibility and taking on the mantle of easy authority. It’s the voice of the middle-brow male critic, the one who truly believes he knows how everyone else should think. We is corrupt. We is make-believe. The real question is this: can I love the art but hate the artist? Can you? When I say we, I mean I. I mean you.