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Lockdown – Marco.org edit / delete
"The bigger problem is that they’ve abandoned interoperability. RSS, semantic markup, microformats, and open APIs all enable interoperability, but the big players don’t want that — they want to lock you in, shut out competitors, and make a service so proprietary that even if you could get your data out, it would be either useless". Quite.
Taming the Asynchronous Beast with CSP Channels in JavaScript edit / delete
A nice example of the ideas of process-oriented programming being reinvented. (Again.)
to concurrency csp javascript programming web ... on 13 March 2015
Butterick’s Practical Typography edit / delete
I don't agree with all of this (especially the ludicrously huge font sizes it recommends for the web), but there's some good stuff here.
to design font text typography web ... on 13 March 2015
Rich User Experience, UX and Desktopization of War edit / delete
"Experience design prevents from thinking and valuing computers as computers, and interfaces as interfaces. It makes us helpless." I agree with the point the author is making here, although it's hard to find a single quotation that summarises it; the Tumblr screenshot is pretty much a perfect encapsulation of what I dislike about the "UX" approach. (I also find the picture of the drone control workstations particularly upsetting, because the GNOME desktop in the top right is running a bit of software I've contributed to in the past. I don't like tools I've built being used to kill people.)
Why I no longer contribute to StackOverflow — Michael T. Richter edit / delete
"There's an old cliché in English: give a man a fish, he eats for a day; teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime. StackOverflow is filled to the brim with people giving fishes. The people asking are learning nothing useful beyond the shortest of the short terms and the people teaching are not helping in any but the most trivial of ways." Yes. I haven't quite got to the point of telling students to ignore the StackOverflow forums -- but I do see an awful lot of bad advice that students have found there.
to programming teaching web ... on 18 January 2015
12 ethical dilemmas gnawing at developers today | Application Development - InfoWorld edit / delete
I'll break my usual rule of not linking to numbered lists of things, because this is actually fairly good, if mostly aimed at people building web applications.
chfoo/wpull · GitHub edit / delete
wget-like tool written in Python.
to mirroring python software to-package web wget ... on 23 August 2014
Systems Programming at Twitter edit / delete
Scala, futures, and functional composition.
to concurrency network programming scala software-engineering web ... on 30 April 2014
Adactio: Journal—Battle for the planet of the APIs edit / delete
The death of the open web, including deconstruction of Twitter's outright lies about why they shut down RSS. I don't play in walled gardens.
to api rss web web-services ... on 14 December 2013
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tasty by Adam Sampson.