The appy-Web is a platform within a platform.

Does that make it ‘superior’ to its host platform? Eh.
Does that make it subpar to its host platform? Nah.

What does it actually provide that isn’t available in the host?

Sometimes sleep eludes the tired during eternal Caturday.

"Ruby isn’t designed for a team of 200 programmers where you don’t trust some of them." I think this eloquently describes the pushback to Ruby over the years (perhaps in favor of Node/TypeScript). Not making a value judgment here, just an observation. codefol.io/posts/when-sho…
Brighton! I'm still looking for a location to film a speaker, a couple times the week of August 24th, then again once more on September 26th. If you know someone with a quiet / empty office, please hit me up: andy@regular.events.
Brighton friends: I need a quiet location to remotely film a speaker giving a conference talk over the next few weeks. Ideally looking for an office that isn't being used...

Imagine if you went into a store to buy an apple, walked out and ended up with six emails in your inbox about “6 things to do with your new apple” or “how to make the best of your apple?”

This is the state of ‘e-commerce’ today and I hate it.

Dexter, for me. People think I’m too empathic with him, lol. https://twitter.com/MissZindzi/status/1295384319272333314

A lot of modern Web stuff built first from a company usually invokes NIH. It’s part of the DNA. https://twitter.com/samccone/status/1295069537084162048

Is rel=sponsored known to the Microformats community? Or is this a Google-ism? https://twitter.com/cramforce/status/1295371010124939265

Gatsby is not looking good. Of course, this wouldn’t slow down business (sadly) but the number of people stepping up is huge! https://gist.github.com/gatsbyjs-employees/5b08b884be088bce54abaf4f980fbf7b

That's it. That's the tweet.
They can’t do anything ambitious without building it as a community, and there is a huge community that wants to do this with them, they just need to meet that communit...
Intrigued by this more fluid, bottom-up futures cone rendition: “ Even if the idea they pull in is seemingly from their own head, not based on research at all, the world around them, and their experience so far, has led them to that point” smithery.com/2020/08/05/int… via @willsh
“taking our [engagement optimized platform] induced behaviors as “natural” means regarding these platforms as benign, transparent vehicles for our inherent intentions, and thus obscuring their prevailing power.” How Not to Know Ourselves by Angela Xiao Wu points.datasociety.net/how-not-to-kno…
On luxury and varied values: “Today, the invisibility of the labor that goes into the production of consumer goods is probably one of the greatest legacies of slavery.” @aliciakennedy aliciakennedy.substack.com/p/on-luxury?r=…
Learning about the *other* WAP: “the historically effective and bipartisan program in a future coronavirus relief package...could potentially aid low-income families struggling during the pandemic, while helping to chip away at the climate crisis”@emorwee heated.world/p/the-wap-we-n…

Is there a way to contribute to OpenStreetMap without exposing like where I live? Or at least something close to that?

Tag yourself. 😌
I'm putting the band back together. 😤 vulpine.club/@baela/1047003…
In other happy news, I love watching the new “Muppets Now” on Disney Plus. It’s hilarious!
If you live in North Carolina and request an absentee ballot, you’ll see Trump’s face and a partisan ad attached to the form. This is really scary. twitter.com/chandlerc226/s…
Got my mail in absentee ballot request form from @realDonaldTrump that will allow me to mail in my vote if I need to... but I can’t remember if this is a good thing or ...

Is it freedom?
Is it autonomy?
Is it individuality?
Is it safety?