It's just...you know this will 99.999999% likely be a money...
@maura@bn2b It's just...you know this will 99.999999% likely be a money hemorrhaging shit circus ending in flames but everyone is gonna go on the ride to get paid. I mean remember like epinions.
It's the grandiosity plus just rich people being completely...
@maura@bn2b It's the grandiosity plus just rich people being completely unable to talk like normal people all wrapped up with the stupid name. Squinky ... will change humanity!!!!!
@waxpancake@lia@fimoculous@ginatrapani@anildash@ranjit Pre anim gif you could do nph- in cgi oreilly.com/... which is how Netscape did their aquarium. My brain is filled with garbage. We all kinda hated home page if I remember and people web journaled mean things about it on their tildes.
And then the lost decade of objects: Taligent, OpenDoc,...
@doriantaylor And then the lost decade of objects: Taligent, OpenDoc, CORBA, OLE, etc. And later the ws-* and WSDL messes. Or Ada. And the OOXML mess. At the same time bringing order to chaos is good!
This is a mess. They haven't released a compiled version...
@Dockjaw This is a mess. They haven't released a compiled version and this version is out of date. They're doing development in private. It's a lot of bad alleys with no exits. I mean, doing open source emulation stuff for the game community has to be the most thankless task so...
Sigh. We have had people reach out and it's hard to figure...
@internetrebecca@edmullen@forestquant@anildash@jakeporway Sigh. We have had people reach out and it's hard to figure out a project that would make sense--not a lot of short term work and the person can be pulled back at any time. I've looked for projects that make sense and have come up short.
Turns out Gina is really upset about every personal finance...
Turns out Gina is really upset about every personal finance app. Just how it goes. You all need to get your act together and help people do better. twitter.com/...
I've been researching mid and large sized consulting a ton...
@bluechoochoo I've been researching mid and large sized consulting a ton (because they are confusing and we compete with them sometimes) and this is hilarious but actually typical. Esp w big outsourcing firms with 20k plus employees. The URL, however, is truly wonderful and exceptional.
Yeah I mean I just started to read, it's conf proceedings...
@sophaskins Yeah I mean I just started to read, it's conf proceedings from an event held at PARC in 1986, so it's just chill geniuses talking in warm self-mocking tones to their peers about sweet systems. Apparently Alan Perlis could make anything happen. It's candy to me.
Yeah but Verso does these great flash ebook sales where...
@kjhealy Yeah but Verso does these great flash ebook sales where they charge like $3 each, I bought like 25 books about socialism and history one night, of course I haven't read any of them yet and...oh...
Just a shout to all my blotchy Xers who are managing the...
Just a shout to all my blotchy Xers who are managing the severely declining health of their silent generation parents in Google spreadsheets with their siblings while everyone else argues if an instant pot is too socialist to be electable
Turns out my 7yo daughter loves musicals. So do I, but...
Turns out my 7yo daughter loves musicals. So do I, but decades of social censure and a wife who hates them made me turn away. But now that rusty door to my heart is pried open by song. What should we watch? Sound of Music and Oliver! start the list. But WHAT ELSE?
That doesn't mean that things can't go completely pear...
That doesn't mean that things can't go completely pear shaped here, as with anything in the universe. But counterintuitively a "checkered past" means EXTRA scrutiny which means a greater likelihood of deeply vetted sources and reliability.
A journalist who works in a nat'l newsroom and was a...
A journalist who works in a nat'l newsroom and was a self-acknowledged screwup will be under real pressure to source extraordinary claims. A "checkered past" means things MUST be right. A media reporter could explain how things work instead of lazily stirring a pot of shit.
At the same time the ad product works! It drives traffic...
At the same time the ad product works! It drives traffic and engagement. We use it at $WORK. So it's just going to be years of a weird balloon slowly, slowly deflating.
I know how that sounds but I'm serious. As I read it I kept...
I know how that sounds but I'm serious. As I read it I kept going, oh, that makes sense now. You don't really see the joy people take in the platform either. The @twitter account is an accurate expression of your product philosophy. Okay!
It had a Django backend for managing each stat and it fed...
@robertgorell@mulegirl It had a Django backend for managing each stat and it fed into Solr! It was one of the very few times in my life I went, this is how I'd like the world to be, and was able to make that happen. People really engaged. After that there wasn't much left to do.
In case you never owned a department-store brand "personal...
In case you never owned a department-store brand "personal cassette device" and had a collection of TDK 90-min cassettes of "weird" music copied from an older friend's vinyl youtube.com/...
In conclusion, that site design was pretty bad but the data...
@mulegirl In conclusion, that site design was pretty bad but the data was great and it did some neat things and everything was pre-cached. I would have loved to work with a designer! I just couldn't find one who'd work for free on a national monthly magazine.
In the end I shipped one important product (the archive,...
@mulegirl In the end I shipped one important product (the archive, which persists and generated revenue) and one true product (the interactive Harper's Index, which they shut down). Every bug and email report and angry phone call was a gift! I turned them into opportunity for me+others.
The opportunity to fail repeatedly on a national stage in...
@mulegirl The opportunity to fail repeatedly on a national stage in multiple disciplines inside of an org that hated what I represented while barely being able to afford rent and being told I was terrible by strangers daily was fun. I got away with murder. I built my own ad server!
I have zero memory of that email. I was constantly being...
@mulegirl I have zero memory of that email. I was constantly being yelled at by everyone then so it would've felt normal. Time Mag listed a later version as one of the worst websites ever. They refused to put a penny towards web design until 2011. Plus I was editing AND running I.T.
Hahahaha sigh. They paid me $1,500 to reskin the ftrain...
@mulegirl Hahahaha sigh. They paid me $1,500 to reskin the ftrain code and migrate their HTML into XML. Leslie Harpold said "it was interesting, like a face with a scar." I was a non-designer thrown into doing things.
So @johnbattelle is talking data governance and visualizing...
So @johnbattelle is talking data governance and visualizing EULAs and it's very...soothing. I'm glad he's in NYC to freak us out a little. Here is a picture of a room owned by CapGemini. twitter.com/...
To be clear Roku can put whatever they want on their...
To be clear Roku can put whatever they want on their platform. But InfoWars is poison and evil in a direct way that harms people who are already suffering unbearable loss. Our current device is getting old and it's time to upgrade so we will switch platforms.
I'm out. I love my @Roku partly because its principal...
I'm out. I love my @Roku partly because its principal engineer is an Amiga pioneer named Carl Sassenrath. It crashes a lot but...well, so did my A1000. But Sandy Hook denialism is way, way too much. You can't pretend little kids didn't die. I guess Apple TV. Or a Pi... twitter.com/...
We at @PostlightStudio are going to open source Postlight...
We at @PostlightStudio are going to open source Postlight Mercury real soon. Get in touch if you want to be involved/have thoughts about it! mercury.postlight.com
Absolutely I once worked for six months to get 30 different...
@jgee Absolutely I once worked for six months to get 30 different magazines to paste a little JavaScript onto their pages (for Google ads). The CEO of the giant company said this was the highest priority for everyone and to help us get it done. Still 6 hours of meetings per brand.
Almost nobody writes about this kind of work, especially...
Almost nobody writes about this kind of work, especially the part about doing weeks of meetings in order to get buy-in on 30 minutes of work. Government is special but...this is also every big company. twitter.com/...
This from @jgee is about Moving Government Forms Online. A...
This from @jgee is about Moving Government Forms Online. A subject I love. But! My media friends who ask, “How do I get into tech?” should read this because this is the actual work of so much of it—it's process and listening, 10% computers. @jgee/what-i-learned-in-two-years-of-moving-government-forms-online-1edc4c2aa089" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://medium.com/@jgee/what-i-learned-in-two-years-of-moving-government-forms-online-1edc4c2aa089
You know what I never have either, which is weird because...
@anildash@katienotopoulos You know what I never have either, which is weird because I'm def target demo. Up until a few months ago I thought they wrote Mr. brightside.
A couple months ago I was out with the kida and heard a dad...
A couple months ago I was out with the kida and heard a dad a few tables over go "dammit Sam how many times do I have to watch you spill your drink before you learn to pay attention" and I laughed in recognition but when I looked up I realized his son was at least 17.
It's so weird. One kid asked the other yesterday at dinner,...
@sirosenbaum It's so weird. One kid asked the other yesterday at dinner, "did you have lockdown drill today? Do you get to be a helper?" It's a normal part of their lives and I try to be calm and talk about it but I go into an almostbwhiteout.
I'm solo parenting this week and it's very constraining...
I'm solo parenting this week and it's very constraining BUT—after the kids are in bed and the dishwasher is loaded, you can just...go to bed, and you can read short stories on your phone in darkened silence until you drift off, then wake up after 9 hours of motionless sleep.
The only free time I have is in transit. What works for me...
@plitter The only free time I have is in transit. What works for me is: Changing my route to and from work (adding in a bus, walking more, etc.), putting phone away and reading, taking off headphones and eavesdropping.
Very big, super-high-level thoughts from @matlock (which is...
Very big, super-high-level thoughts from @matlock (which is the right altitude, these should be high level) about the future of PUBLIC MEDIA. medium.com/...
I miss it, and also I still can't figure out how to type...
@michaelcoyote@bennyfactor@PostlightStudio I miss it, and also I still can't figure out how to type smart quotes. But it's like dozens of things and they sort of fall away, not thousands of things.