With so many twitter alternatives, the death of forums, the explosion of chats / video platforms and the reddit shenanigans, we are once again facing this decades old question. So far, only Hacker News has stood the test of time, … Read more
Many historians want us to wash our mouths with soap every time we happen to use the derogatory term, “the Dark Ages.” Granted, it wasn’t all dark, and of course, everything that came before it wasn’t bright. But mind you, … Read more
How to Play There are five photos from the same place. You have five guesses to figure out where. A new photo is revealed after each guess. The tile color is how close your guess was: 0miles 100miles 200miles 200+miles … Read more
I recently wrote about the decline of the counterculture—and promised I would have more to say about that matter. The article below is part of this same discussion, because many of the fringe activities of any counterculture operate as part … Read more
My neighborhood. When we moved in we sat out front every evening, and made small talk with every single person who walked by. Some were caught off guard, some kinda just waved and moved on, but most stopped to talk. … Read more
Sunday, May 14, 2023 :: Tagged under: engineering essay. ⏰ 14 minutes. 🎵 The song for this post is CHEMICAL LOVE, by “Kaleb James and Chey” for the game Bust-a-Groove. 🎵 I’m talking with friends and coworkers about programming languages … Read more
Great Wave Today country upcoming from 🗓 3 locations 2023-05-26 country not on view until 📦 53 locations 2025-12-16 Are you a Museum or Gallery? Submit your impression at GitHub For automatic updates please subscribe to the site RSS feed An automated project by Matt Sephton
Earlier today I found out about a documentary being created by Daniel Krasner, Matt Rocker, and Eric Gade called Message Not Understood, which plans to show the history of personal computing and how personal computing deviated from the values that … Read more
Wentworth & Flexner, Dictionary of American Slang (1960) suggests an extended Irish term: shenanigans n.pl. Tricks, pranks, nonsenses; petty cheating or deception. Since c1870; may be from the Irish “sionnochwigham” = I play tricks. The same source lists “shenanannygag” (also … Read more
To understand the shift in tone that has taken place in Silicon Valley in recent months, look no further than Mark Zuckerberg’s declaration in February that 2023 would be the “year of efficiency”. It is hardly the kind of language … Read more