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s14e10: Your Timeline needs a DJ; Enough
January 26, 2023
s14e10: Your Timeline needs a DJ; Enough 0.0 Context Setting A grey, cold morning in Portland, Oregon, on 26 January, 2023. Let's get on with it. 1.0 Some...
s14e09: Building and Documentation; Making New Mistakes; Eternal Tumblr; Governance in the Early Days of a Better Nation
January 25, 2023
0.0 Context Setting It’s a grey morning in Portland, Oregon on Wednesday, January 25, 2023 and my nearby peripheral sensors say it’s 71 degrees Fahrenheit...
s14e08 - Some Combination of Efficiency and Expediency
January 17, 2023
0.0 Context Setting It's a grey, not-raining Tuesday morning in Portland, Oregon, on 17 January, 2022. 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention 1.1 A Few...
s14e07: Platform Exclusivity: Microsoft / Activision Blizzard
January 11, 2023
0.0 Context Setting A bright and sunny, hardly-any-clouds morning in Portland, Oregon, on Wednesday 11 January, 2023, and today’s challenge to write a...
s14e06: Congratulations, Your App Has Apps In It Now
January 10, 2023
0.0 Context Setting A not-rainy, nicely cloudy, not-too-cold morning in Portland, Oregon, on Tuesday 10 January, 2023. 1.0 Some Things That Caught My...
s14e05 - The Software-Defined Cost of Doing Business
January 9, 2023
0.0 Context Setting It’s a grey Monday in Portland, Oregon, where, for now at least, it isn’t raining. 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention 1.1 The...
s14e04: Substack; The Health Technology Surveillance Complex
January 5, 2023
0.0 Context Setting It's a cloudy morning in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday 5 January, 2023. 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention A few short ones today....
s14e03: Success Criteria; Chat
January 4, 2023
0.0 Context Setting It’s another cold, cloudy morning in Portland, Oregon on Wednesday, 4 January, 2022. 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention A few small...
s14e02: It was only a receipt; It's a social problem, not a technology problem; Stupid smart lights
January 3, 2023
0.0 Context Setting It’s Tuesday, 3 January 2023 in Portland Oregon where the skies are mostly grey and it turns out the Pacific Northwest may not have been...
s14e01 - The Hallway Track
January 2, 2023
0.0 Context Setting New year, new season. It’s a bright Monday, 2 January 2023 in Portland, Oregon, where the sunrise was off-the-charts. 1.0 Some Things...
s13e25: Universal Basic Compute
December 21, 2022
0.0 Context Setting It's Wednesday, 21 December, 2022 and a cold morning in Portland, Oregon. 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention 1.1 Universal Basic...
s13e24 - The Careless Conversation; The Shape of Things
December 16, 2022
0.0 Context Setting I started writing this late on Tuesday, 13 December, 2022 in Portland, Oregon. It was the kind of day where you could see patches of blue...
s13e23: Colliders; Speedrunning; Benevolent Dictators Have Significant Failure States; Verification Deserts; The Inflationary epoch
November 22, 2022
0.0 Context Setting It’s Tuesday, November 22, 2022 and a rainy but not freezing cold morning in Portland, Oregon. Two more days until Turkey Day or...
s13e22: This isn't an HBR case study, this is a hundreds of millions of dollars new campus of Look At This Fucking Guy
November 18, 2022
0.0 Context Setting Friday, November 18, 2022 in Portland, Oregon and I am slowly still getting better from covid. 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention...
s13e21: Sunny and crisp outside
November 17, 2022
0.0 Context Setting It’s Thursday, November 17, 2022 in Portland, Oregon and it is sunny and crisp outside, an archetypal autumn morning. It’s thirteen days...
s13e20: What It Is Like To Be A Certain Kind Of Person
November 9, 2022
s13e20: What It Is Like To Be A Certain Kind Of Person 0.0 Context Setting It’s Wednesday, November 9, and I am in MSP airport, on my way back to Portland....
s13e19: Just Because We Can Doesn't (Necessarily) Mean We Should: Mastodon and Social Networks Edition
November 8, 2022
s13e19: Just Because We Can Doesn’t (Necessarily) Mean We Should: Mastodon and Social Networks Edition 0.0 Context Setting It is Tuesday, November 8, 2022 at...
s13e18: Mastodon, or What Happens When Your Software Has Opinions And Now You Have Choices
November 1, 2022
s13e18: Mastodon, or What Happens When Your Software Has Opinions And Now You Have Choices 0.0 Context Setting I started this on 31 October, 2022 in...
s13e17: A Proposal for News Organization Mastodon Servers and More
October 28, 2022
s13e17: A Proposal for News Organization Mastodon Servers and More 0.0 Context Setting It’s Friday, October 28, 2022 in Portland, Oregon and it is a grey,...
s13e16: Duolingo, but for talking to ML Image Generators
October 27, 2022
0.0 Context Setting It's Thursday, October 27, 2022 in Portland, Oregon and I just downloaded an archive of my Twitter data because it's a good thing to do...
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