2024.01.18 – Jason Velazquez explores the current state of the web and the death of personal websites, and how to fix it.
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Technical Project Oversight for Senior Management
2023.12.08 – I was just revisiting this article from Waldo Jaquith that he posted back in May to share with my organization, and I figure some folks didn’t see it the first time around. This is a great summary of how senior management can prevent the dreaded moments when software projects magically go from green to red on the status board.
Scroll to Text Fragments
2023.11.21 – Simon Willison shares this tip on using URL Fragment Text Directives, a way of deep linking to elements in a web page even when there aren’t available ids for anchors.
Why can't our tech billionaires learn anything new?
2023.10.27 – Dave Karpf provides this excellent teardown of Marc Andreesen’s garbage “techno-optimist manifesto.”
Politics: What Americans Want
2023.10.23 – Cory Doctorow goes through a lot of compelling research on how out-of-touch American politics is with what the American people actually want.
Occult Strategies
2023.10.19 – Via Gareth Branwyn’s blog, some of you weirdos might love this riff on the Oblique Strategies deck by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt: Occult Strategies. I just backed it!
Speak Softly and Carry a Long Roadmap
2023.10.17 – I had missed this when Matthew Burton published it at the beginning of the year, but this compelling piece makes a call for a long term view of IT modernization in the US government.
Web Rot is Erasing Our Images
2023.08.31 – This compelling piece on DPReview documents how the current state of the internet is causing us to lose massive amounts of knowledge. All the more reason to build your own backups and long-term plans for your content!
Remove the Consultants
2023.08.10 – The brilliant Marianne Bellotti gives a practical approach to eliminating costly consultants in your organization in favor of upskilling and training. I’ve always been a huge fan of this approach, and is exactly how my team is currently modernizing our organization!
Luddites and AI
2023.07.19 – In the Nib this week, Tom Humberstone gives an excellent history of the Luddite movement, and how it reflects the current growing concerns around AI in creative work.
Rad Reader for RSS
2023.07.10 – Y’all know I love RSS! Alexander Cobleigh has put together a nice RSS reader app for the desktop, and it’s only $5 right now!”
Too Many Zooz - Brasshouse music
2023.06.30 – I shared this already on Mastodon, but it occurs to me that many folks aren’t familiar with Too Many Zooz, one of my favorite brasshouse bands. They were recently on tour with Moon Hooch and Lucky Chops, all of which are also worth checking out.