Giri Sreenivas just publicly launched his new product, The Helm. It’s a personal email server with a novel approach to security and privacy. The hardware looks stunning:
My chapter with Jeffrey Boase and @tkobyashi was just published in the the Oxford Handbook of Networked Communication: Multiplying the Medium: Tie Strength, Social Role, and Mobile Media Multiplexity
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I still have my tickets from the game at the Orange Bowl. I attended with my late grandfather, and will never forget the experience! Hoping to frame all of this eventually.
William’s fifth birthday is coming up, so we took a trip to a lake resort and Legoland together to celebrate. It’s been special!
Here’s a short slow improv riffing on the harmonies in Wayne Shorter’s Speak No Evil and Miles Davis’ Nefertiti:
There’s been a flurry of recent articles about RSS and ActivityPub:
The Rise and Demise of RSS traces some interesting RSS prehistory that I wasn’t aware of. It also covers the great RSS 0.9x/1.0 schism.
In Oh God Not This Again, Brent Simmons reminds us that RSS is plumbing; widespread adoption of RSS readers isn’t necessary to make RSS “successful”.
What is ActivityPub, and how will it change the Internet? makes several breathless claims about the W3C ActivityPub standard; interesting discussion follows.
The author of this ActivityPub hot take doesn’t think highly of ActivityPub; further interesting discussion ensues.
Despite being omnipresent, mountain goats are apparently not native to the Olympic Peninsula. So: they’re getting relocated.
I love this amazing photo, by Ramon Dompor, of mountain goats dangling from a helicopter on their way to a new home:
As amusing as that photo is, I’m actually a bit sad to hear about the relocation. When I think of Olympic National Park, I instantly think of mountain goats. One day, while hiking the Klahhane Ridge, Amy and I had to make way for the locals; we happened to capture this video: