There’s a certain amount of irony in the proposition that one response in the comments on Jeff Atwood’s post commemorating the 10th anniversary of the launch of Stack Overflow was to suggest that the post be marked as a duplicate of https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/09/27/stack-overflow-is-10/. I think Jeff Atwood puts it best himself: Interesting, so we can close… Continue reading Stack Overflow at 10
Tag: IT
Standard Notes
On my radar, for if (when) Evernote stumbles: Standard Notes A writing experience unlike any other. Standard Notes is free to use on every platform, and comes standard with cross-platform sync and end-to-end privacy. For those wanting a little more power and flexibility, we created Extended, which unlocks powerful editors, themes, and automated backups. There’s… Continue reading Standard Notes
Root?
Darius Kazemi might just be some kind of evil genius: I gave a talk at CornCon 2018 about the history of the cron utility in UNIX systems, in the character of a man who gradually realizes that he is not speaking at CronCon, a conference about the time-based scheduler, but rather at CornCon, a conference… Continue reading Root?
Choices, choices
As of Google Chrome version 69, Google are treating being logged in to any Google service as the same thing as being logged in to Google Chrome: Most Google services have for me this in common with Facebook: these services are too deeply integrated and impossible to use in part or isolation. It’s either the… Continue reading Choices, choices
Quoted For Truth!
From Memex 1.1: “More fiction is written in Excel than in Word” Troy Vosseller Amen to that, brother. Sometimes by design, sometimes by accident.
Love Notes to Newton
I’d somehow failed to notice that a documentary about the Apple Newton had been released: Love Notes to Newton is a mix of historical footage about the machine’s development and tributes to the dwindling band of Newton aficionados who have tried hard to keep their Newtons in daily use in the modern world where the… Continue reading Love Notes to Newton
One Day
I guess the reason people keep coming back to being inspired by Vannevar Bush’s Memex, Alan Kay’s Dynabook and what have you is that the internet as it currently exists falls so far short of the dream of what a global information network could have been. Thank goodness that dreams like this keep popping up:… Continue reading One Day
Elections
xkcd: Voting Software: QFT!
LinkedIn: The Game
Beating LinkedIn: The Game is tricky, but not impossible. If you can believe this guy: The general goal of LinkedIn (the game) is to find and connect with as many people on LinkedIn (the website) as possible, in order to secure vaguely defined social capital and potentially further one’s career, which allows the player to… Continue reading LinkedIn: The Game
Atari 520 STM
Having just read The Jackintosh: A Real GEM – Remembering the Atari ST, I feel a massive nostalgia rush coming on: After Commodore Founder Jack Tramiel was forced out by his board, he decided, after a brief hiatus, to get revenge. Tramiel knew that a 16-bit computer was next on the horizon for Commodore, and… Continue reading Atari 520 STM