86 entries from "Brasilia"

Digital Tools I Wish Existed

Let me compare my reading list with another to see overlap. I find this a wonderful way to spark conversation and find common interests.

The Future of Search Is Boutique

[Makes little sense to search for recipes and freelancers with the same interface: better to create diverse experiences with specific affordances for each niche.]

Re-Decentralizing the Web, For Good This Time

[Centralized systems addict us by combining what decentralization cannot: speed without cost.]

[Slower results might even be healthy if it gives us space to process the information more deeply and carefully.]

No more raw data

[Sometimes it's better not to decide what data you share, and defer the choice to someone with more expertise, such as medical data being provisioned by your doctor (who likely knows better how to respond to the request).]

Not only can my pod automatically fill out such forms; the forms don’t need to be there in the first place, because my pod can just share the needed data, machine to machine.

[Recipients will want to keep the trust envelope because it's their proof to an auditor that they comply with its policy.]

Musician’s own website as definitive source of all info

I think the musician’s own “.com” homepage website should be the one-and-only place the musician ever has to enter their info. It should be the sole definitive source for their music, photos, bio, lyrics, calendar, blog, and especially their fan/friend/email list.

How to organise yourself - the dangerous path to Explorer, Villager and Town Planners

Be prepared to be shocked, that's the horror of looking.

This is like a guide on how to run a company or organization.

Deprecating Content

[Include enough context (such as what, when, why, and the plan) so that the reader can make more informed prioritization of how to handle it.]

Foam: Software as Curation

[With a modular enough system, people can simply curate components or plugins into a kind of software experience, requiring less effort or technical skill than programming.]

Why don’t the Democrats adopt the obvious winning strategies?

[Since the Clinton era, US Democrats want to lose because it enables them to continue campaign funding as a lucrative income, as the Republicans started to do decades earlier.]

Jess Martin on devtools.fm

Do you have ten years of experience? or ten of the same year?

Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster

[Instead of saving an hour from not having to walk an hour to work, speed and distance increases so that we spend a comparable amount of time occupied with new trajectories.]

The Linking of Opposites

[It's fine to stop a video to talk about one frame, but we cannot separate it from the moving picture of life: we're always in motion.]

How Close Is That Photo to the Truth? What to Know in the Age of AI

[The camera's photon sensor converts light into pixel data and makes guesses about how much red, green, and blue to represent in each one.]

[Breaking up the image into multiple frames helps better represent shadows and skies while reducing noise.]

[Cameras make choices about how to make photos more vivid or different skin colors better represented, and decide how to store them for maximum compression.]

More Money For Better Open-Source Software

I am going to emphasize, in the docs, the license file, and the communication surrounding the project, that free-loading is not socially acceptable. Along with this, I will provide convenient mechanisms to donate. The code of financial conduct would be something like this:

• If you are a non-commercial user, don't worry about it.
• If I fix a bug you reported or add a feature you wanted and you have the financial means, a one-time tip is much appreciated. Even if this is unlikely to add up to serious money, it takes the one-sidedness out of the process of responding to user requests.
• If you are extracting value from your use of my software, set up a proportional monthly donation.

The monthly part is the important thing here. Having to periodically beg a user base to please contribute to a donation drive again is a drag, and not very effective. Convincing users to donate as long as they get value from the software gives a maintainer a more or less predictable, low-maintenance source of compensations for their work.