Weekly Tech Thread - ~2024.9.11
Something Old:
See also ~hanfel-dovned/board (app).
Willis H. Ware, RAND and the Information Evolution , Chapter 3, “RAND's First Computer People”
Something New:
Something Borrowed:
Eliran Turgeman, “On over-engineering; finding the right balance” (h/t Hacker News)
Something Blue:
singular takeaway from the overengineer article - passing conditionals is a good way to keep things simple but extensible
https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/specifying-spring-83/
See also ~hanfel-dovned/board (app).
Board is hosted on ~ridlyd now.
It was a real sensation for 2-3 weeks, but eventually people lose the habit of opening an app that they'll only be looking at for a minute. This is the true issue with small apps: no software interfaces that I can think of (aside from Sky, fingers crossed) allow for the digital equivalent of walking past a bulletin board in a classroom building. Opening an app is more like getting in your car and driving somewhere, and you only want to drive places that you'll be staying at for long enough to justify the travel overhead. This leads to a low number of massive social media apps growing popular while smaller sites dry up.
%turf has a cute answer to this. There's the pleasant concept of “walking” between processes represented inside a turf.
You can also imagine functional bulletin boards in communal turfs.
But that's mostly cute. Sky would be great!
True. Thinking of a plaza style ecosystem for using apps (i.e. escaping the landscape "car" problem) would be huge
Some of the post got eaten. Rest of contents:
Something Old:
See also ~hanfel-dovned/board (app).
Willis H. Ware, RAND and the Information Evolution , Chapter 3, “RAND's First Computer People”
Something New:
zorp-corp/nockapp
Ordinal Theory Handbook
Something Borrowed:
Eliran Turgeman, “On over-engineering; finding the right balance” (h/t Hacker News)
Something Blue:
%wock Hoon in the Browser %fund
ruth & tim, “Hypnotic Squares”