The Computer. A History from the 17th Century to Today. (Via deprogrammaticaipsum.com.)

Relevant: Home Computers: 100 Icons that Defined a Digital Generation.

Uli Jürgens: Louise, Licht und Schatten – Die Filmpionierin Louise Kolm-Fleck, eine der ersten Filmregisseurinnen der Welt.

Im Jänner 1910 gründet sie gemeinsam mit ihrem ersten Ehemann, Anton Kolm, sowie Jakob Fleck, die „Erste österreichische Kinofilms-Industrie“.

TIL Bertrand Russell was being jailed for civil disobedience (via iwm.at).

In September 1961, at the age of 89, Russell was jailed for seven days in Brixton Prison for a "breach of the peace" after taking part in an anti-nuclear demonstration in London. The magistrate offered to exempt him from jail if he pledged himself to "good behaviour", to which Russell replied: "No, I won't."

What is a software worker to do?

(…) software workers will have to understand, once and for all, that their actions are political. They must understand that every single decision they take, from the choice of a particular ORM, the adoption of a microservices architecture, and the IDE and programming language that they will use, to the choice of allegiance to a particular employer, has a direct impact on the world we live in.

Relevant: Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism.

Eleanor Leacock (via reddit.com).

Leacock's theories mainly concentrated on the relationships between race, class, gender, sexuality, and religion. And she refuted biological determinism as it relates to race, gender, and class. (…) Arguing the roles of women in the hierarchical society, she claimed that some features of women become exploitable under the patriarchy system.

Sergiy Maidukov – illustrator working for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian (via topos.orf.at).

Bytes: McKinsey Consulting wrote a report titled, Yes, you can measure software developer productivity.

And that’s great news, because if there’s one company I trust on this very nuanced topic, it’s the people who helped bring us the opioid epidemic, the 2008 financial crisis, and Enron. 🫠

"‘Winter Kills’ does a highly impressive job of milking laughs out of a subject that most people might not find to be that funny…

… (especially back in 1979) while still touching on the disillusion felt by many, both then and now, regarding the institutions they had been raised to believe in.”

Dee and dum.

Explaining The Postgres Meme.

I already knew that data storage and retrieval ain't ever been one of my strong suits, but after seeing this meme it kind of made me unsecure as I had basically zero effing clue about a huge portion of it. I felt the urge that I have to know what this is all about, so I have decided to learn from multiple sources.

Web Scraping for Me, But Not for Thee.

Some of the biggest companies on earth—including Meta and Microsoft—take aggressive, litigious approaches to prohibiting web scraping on their own properties, while taking liberal approaches to scraping data on other companies’ properties.