Seeing old news archives (in my country) spanning multiple decades is a crazed deja vu experience. It’s creepy — pretty much every event from a few years ago feels like it could have happened just yesterday.
Progressive enhancement is the philosophy of stratification and graceful technological degradation with progression. Extremes but without extreme failure…
, this matters more than online. The Internet/computer is a sort of post scarcity black hole experiment. You better have a way of converting your belongings back into its analog or you might lose them completely :-)
My deprecated its email services recently. I’ve heard that unfortunately many people learned the hard way what a really entails. My isp’s recommendation? Create a free gmail.com or mail.com account, but “free” is a nebulous term…
It’s quiet now, but the “One Thing Well” blog is where I discovered most of the programs I use today. I got my first personal computer roughly about two years before that blog started.
Every so often I stumble upon really interesting YouTube channels. It doesn’t take very long though for all of them to go “poof” ..and gone.
Speaking of — this channel revisits old mmorpgs in current year. It’s mind blowing that many of them are still going, and that people still play them. I can’t even remember the last time I played a game, let alone a mmorpg.
It just dawned on me that social media is exactly like a . Think about it — we’ve got characters/personas, bots, cheat codes/walkthroughs and black markets that sell accounts, followers, and clicks. (was on the shady side of the net today)
, it’s a fascinating demonstration of psychological prowess that corporations have convinced everyone that programming/computing is hard.
People are smart, take what they can get, and deal with a lot of computing frustation. Software is bespoke enough that technically you have to “program” in roundabout ways to get useful things done (generality).
If you’re not trying to pad a resume, one of the best kept secrets to being quick with a computer is to just use “complete” programs/primitives.
Unfashionable programs with low ecosystem churn that allow quickly and predictably producing similar quality software/architecture as modern high churn ecosystems are “complete”, .
One reason my web traffic statistics are public is to demonstrate why having a website might not be worth your while. Sometimes I’m asked to make a website/application but the person asking is none the wiser on Internet trickery and deception.
You think you want a website, but what you’re really looking for is marketing (network effects) for your product or skill set. It’s great when a sad ending is averted.