Idle Words > Talks > The Moral Economy of Tech This is the text version of remarks I gave on June 26, 2016, at a panel on the Moral Economy of Tech at the SASE conference in Berkeley. The other panel
We came across a cool book recently called Logically Fallacious: The Ultimate Collection of Over 300 Logical Fallacies , by a social psychologist named Bo Bennett. We were a bit skeptical at first — l
About The Author Laura Elizabeth is an independant designer with a hankering for cross stitch and rockets. She also runs Design Academy which aims to help developers conquer … More about LauraElizabet
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Francis Bacon once remarked, “some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” Reading and writing often go hand in hand. Reading is not a passive skill bu
For several reasons, I am instinctively in favour — strongly so — of remaining in the EU: I have a French wife and two bilingual children, and I am an academic living in the age of the internet. The r
Gray Matter Think Less, Think Better Credit... Gérard DuBois A FRIEND of mine has a bad habit of narrating his experiences as they are taking place. I tease him for being a bystander in his own life.
It was just a regular shipment of golden hamsters from the breeding colonies, except for one male animal. While all the other hamsters aligned on the shelf in
D onald Donald trawls Google Fonts for ten minutes. There are a few candidates, but Don’s not so confident in his font evaluation skills. He lands on Open Sans. Good ol’ faithful. He sets the actionab
Meet Oliver. Like many of his friends, Oliver thinks he is an expert on 9/11. He spends much of his spare time looking at conspiracist websites and his research has convinced him that the terrorist at
Update: You can now get this post on Kindle . I’ve been using git full time for the past 4 years, and I wanted to share the most practical tips that I’ve learned along the way. Hopefully, it will be u
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M orale is down. We are making plenty of money, but the office is teeming with salespeople: well-groomed social animals with good posture and dress shoes, men who chuckle and smooth their hair back wh
Who are you and what do you use Vim for? My name is Gabriel Berke-Williams and I am a developer at thoughtbot . I started using Vim years and years ago, but didn’t read the :help enough andstarted usi
Have you ever sat down to complete an important task — and then suddenly discovered you were up loading the dishwasher or engrossed in the Wikipedia entry about Chernobyl? Or perhaps you suddenly real
Netscape 6.0 is finally going into its first public beta. There never was a version 5.0. The last major release, version 4.0, was released almost three years ago. Three years is an awfully long time i
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Original article: http://www.wenet.net/~scoville/PCarticle.html If there's nothing different about UNIX people, how come so many were liberal-arts majors? It's the love of words that makes UNIX stand
Opinion Congratulations! You’ve Been Fired Credit... Henning Wagenbreth AT HubSpot, the software company where I worked for almost two years, when you got fired, it was called “graduation.” We all wou
03.15.16 Adrian Shaughnessy | Essays When I was a music-mad youth with no money beyond what I needed for rent, food, and the weekly purchase of an inky music paper, I ached with the impossibility of o
Francois Ward Feb 28, 2016 · 16 min read Image “Question!” by Stefan Baudy , CC BY 2.0 So, you’re starting a brand new JavaScript front end project or overhauling an old one, and maybe you haven’t kep
I’m having a really weird browser issue, where scripts on some pages just won’t run until about 20 seconds have passed. Whatever you’re about to suggest, yes, I’ve thought of it, and no, it’s not the
Next post Previous post This morning I came across this post by Nuno Brito on command line switches (or options, as they’re often called, even when they’re not optional). He doesn’t like the multitude
Matthew Desmond hopes to bring a fresh approach to the study of poverty by focusing on the trauma of eviction. “Before this work I didn’t know how bad it was,” he says. “I don’t think a lot of us know
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I don't own a smartphone. I consider there to be numerous issues with them: They are unequal devices. Smartphones are unapologetically devices for consumption. In this regard they differ critically from PCs, because PCs are equal devices in the sense that the same device is used for creation and…
Editors’ note: Be mindful that this article is from early 2016, but know that your mindfulness helps your mind and body.
The benefits of mindfulness meditation, increasingly popular in recent years, are supposed to be many: reduced stress and risk for various diseases, improved well-being, a rewired…
Somewhere between design – a world of personas, pixels, and polish – and engineering – a world of logic, loops, and linux – lies frontend design. Frontend design involves creating the HTML, CSS, and p
From the excellent Mindfulness in Plain English : Concentration and mindfulness are distinctly different functions. They each have their role to play in meditation, and the relationship between them i
Note: On October 3, 2017, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that the Nobel Prize in Physics would be awarded to Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish, three pioneers in the study of
Software quality is a nebulous and divisive topic. There are many parameters to software quality – reliability, speed, user experience, design, discoverability, and more – and a move towards any of th
D onald Donald trawls Google Fonts for ten minutes. There are a few candidates, but Don’s not so confident in his font evaluation skills. He lands on Open Sans. Good ol’ faithful. He sets the actionab
Young, Naive, and Happy I started programming when I was in 8th grade by writing silly little games in BASIC and eventually C for a toy called a Cybiko. Cybikos were essentially Palm Pilots targeted at teens: Writing code felt like magic. I was a god. I could place sprites on the screen, let the…
Vermoderte Ruinen. Leerstehende Hallen. Besetzte Häuser. Ostberlin, 1990. Jedem Ende wohnt ein Anfang inne. Manchmal auch der Anfang von etwas Großem. Als Berlin nach 40 Jahren Trennung wieder vereint wurde, lag etwas in der Luft. Ein Zauber. Im Ostteil der Stadt, wo zuvor ein totalitäres Regime…
Thanks to his vibrant musical connection with Kendrick Lamar as well as his own recent three-hour opus The Epic, saxophonist Kamasi Washington has become a worthy ambassador for jazz in the 21st centu
When the weather is bad I take a bus to work. I’m forever grateful to the person at the bus stop who informed me that you can text New York’s MTA service to find out exactly where the bus is and when
Alex Sharp Jan 13, 2016 · 4 min read Update (August 2020): I wrote this 4 years ago when the React/component community were still in a relatively immature state. In 2020, I no longer recommend this ad
David Noël Jan 11, 2016 · 7 min read I was a perfect smoker: I started young — at the age of 15 or 16, if I remember correctly. For many years, smoking a cigarette was the first thing and the last thi
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Mike Bostock Dec 28, 2015 · 6 min read I’d like D3 to become the standard library of data visualization: not just a tool you use directly to visualize data by writing code, but also a suite of tools t