MIT Technology Review
We used to get excited about technology. What happened?
3 min read · · Innovation that truly serves us all is in scarce supply. That’s a problem. · Shared by 130, including JJ Flash, Patrick Sanwikarja, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, Abeba Birhane, Allison Arieff, Carissa Véliz
world.hey.com
Why we're leaving the cloud
4 min read · · Basecamp has had one foot in the cloud for well over a decade, and HEY has been running there exclusively since it was launched two years ago. We've run extensively in both Amazon's cloud and Google's… · Shared by 187, including William Toll, Tim Bray, Albert Ràfols, Gerd Leonhard, Zack Kanter, Yves Mulkers, Jonas Bandi, Vikram Dutt, DHH
morepablo.com
🤓 So you're using a weird language 🧠
10 min read · · Tips and narratives around picking a weird language for your project · Shared by 66, including JJ Flash
TIME
Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal
20+ min read · · A celebration of one of technology's biggest, most underappreciated revolutions · Shared by 13, including JJ Flash, MIT CSAIL, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer
whitep4nth3r.com
HTML is all you need to make a website
5 min read · · In a world full of JavaScript frameworks, SPAs, CSS animations, powerful devices and fast internet, HTML-only websites are controversial and divisive. But why? · Shared by 83, including Matthew Turland, JJ Flash, Dennis Lembrée
IGN
Years Later, the Creator of E.T. Remains Proud of ‘the Worst Game Ever Made’
~11 min read · · The tale of E.T. has been told over the years as a cautionary tale against crunch, having only been made in five weeks. But the real story of ET, its creator, and their relationship with Atari is far… · Shared by 92, including JJ Flash
flickeringmyth.com
Great Films Unfairly Forgotten in Time
7 min read · · Tom Jolliffe on great films unfairly forgotten in time… Time is a cruel mistress. It’s the one constant and something no one can alter (except Marty McFly and Doc Brown). Looks go, memories fade and… · Shared by 50, including JJ Flash
KDnuggets
The 5 Hardest Things to Do in SQL
~11 min read · · The 5 hardest things Josh Berry, a 15 year analytics professional, experienced while switching from Python to SQL. Offering examples, SQL code, and a resource to customize the SQL to your own project. · Shared by 233, including JJ Flash, Mike Tamir, PhD, Craig Brown, PhD, Carla Gentry
NPR
Seeing double: Near-identical films that came out at the same time
5 min read · · What happens when two studios are making the same movie and neither studio blinks? · Shared by 127, including JJ Flash
Lifehacker
17 of the Most Disturbing Films Ever Made
~13 min read · · These are great works of art you'll never want to see again. · Shared by 440, including Loubna Rais, JJ Flash
nolanlawson.com
The collapse of complex software
4 min read · · In 1988, the anthropologist Joseph Tainter published a book called The Collapse of Complex Societies. In it, he described the rise and fall of great civilizations such as the Romans, the Mayans, an… · Shared by 125, including JJ Flash
Robin Sloan
The lost thread
2 min read · · The speed with which Twitter recedes in your mind will shock you. · Shared by 159, including Alexis C. Madrigal, Mark Armstrong, Kyle Chayka, Mathew Ingram, Richard MacManus, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Fred Scharmen, @rastrau (@rastrau@mstdn.social), Ines Bieler, Anne Helen Petersen, Simon C, Lauren Goode, JJ Flash, Craig Mod, Merlin Mann
elephant.art
Crowd and Proud: The History of the Flash Mob
5 min read · · Quick! Gather a hundred strangers together and all read this article together right now! · Shared by 151, including Elephant Magazine, Esther Schindler, JJ Flash
The Guardian
Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen
~14 min read · · Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still can · Shared by 1349, including Barry C Smith, Chris Skinner, Rebecca Roache, Jeff Jarvis, Gerd Leonhard, Jo Hemmings 🇺🇦, Tiffany Shlain, Jason Silva, @toxi@mastodon.thi.ng, Sam Harris, Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🇪🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸⭐️, Marsha Collier, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Yanis Varoufakis, Patricia Churchland, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Richard Dawkins, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Scott Monty, Ben Miller
