Started reading: The C Book by Mike Banahan, Declan Brady and Mark Doran, originally published by Addison Wesley.

Started reading: It Came From Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office by Dale Beran.

Started reading: Fantasy Land: How America Went Haywire: A 500 Year History by Kurt Anderson.

Started reading: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

Started reading: A Brief History of Ireland by Richard Killen.

Just landed my first #firefox dev tools patch! https://t.co/diIqRbVyWxMany thanks to Nicholas Chevobbe for helping me through the process.

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Started reading The Silent Clowns by Walter Kerr.

Started reading: Building a Character by Contantin Stanislavski.

Today I downloaded all the data Facebook has on me, and started poking through it. Since it’s been the focus of every privacy scandal, I went straight to the ad data. I found two items. My ad … Read more

What I’ve been reading this past week.

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What I’ve been reading this past week.

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• Admissions Scandal Shows Elite Schools’ Self-Importance - The Atlantic
  A think piece from a Yale professor refocusing on what the point of universities are, although the bit at the end about not being ashamed of admitting wealthy donors kids for their money is never going to fly.
• hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooorse
  I’m honestly heartened when I see goofy, pointless stuff like this on the web again.
• List: Revolutionary Quotes From Centrist History - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
  McSweeny’s swoops in once more for the win.
• List: If Conservatives Talked About Other Issues the Way They Talk About Climate Change - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
  Nailed it.
• ‘Centurians of Rome’: How a Bank Robber Made the Most Expensive Gay Porno Flick of All Time
  Engrossing long form about a gay, Cuban-American overachiever, and one time anti-gay crusader’s life of crime.

There it is, and here we are. Go forth.

My (short) reading picks this past week. Very technical selections this week, so n00bs beware.

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• Using CSS Grid the right way | hey it’s violet
  Some good tips.
• Alyssa Rosenzweig – The Federation Fallacy
  Convincing take on the democratization of a centralized internet, versus a decentralized one.

There it is, and here we are. Go forth.

@ehashdn Joined the OSI just now inspired by your platform. Thanks! I look forward to voting once I figure out how 😛

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What I’ve been reading this past week.

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• Four Temperaments and the Forms of Poetry
  A thinky, verbose literary analysis of what ingredients writers bring to their work, and how those best interact. Focused pointedly on poetry, but I think it has value for anyone working creatively with the written word.
• Jessie Frazelle’s Blog: Government. Medicine. Capitalism?
  What the software industry can learn from government and medicine, and generally good thoughts on management.
• Remembering The Grateful Dead’s ‘Wall of Sound’: An Absurd Feat of Technological Engineering
  Another story about The Dead I didn’t think I’d enjoy, but here we are.
• Write code that is easy to delete
  Great article on software design, but I think the broad principles are applicative to many creative fields, as well.

There it is, and here we are. Go forth.

If you’re not watching/listening to Michael cohens testimony happening right now, you really should. #CohenCongressionalTestimony

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Gopher lives(ish) https://t.co/ftTebzQZ7Q. I visited gopher://nickmaslon.com just now. https://t.co/WcFQPIhije

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My reading picks for the past few weeks.

These are some choice picks from what I’ve been reading for the past few weeks.

I hope to publish these link round-ups weekly, but for this first one I have a backlog of saved links, so this one has more links then will be usual.

• Ong’s Hat: The Early Internet Conspiracy Game That Got Too Real
  If you’re into reading about weirdo conspiracy theories, inter dimensional travel, and/or New Jersey, this is a must.
• Privacy vs “I have nothing to hide” - Kev Quirk
  Puts the importance of privacy in plain, effecting language.
• CERN 2019 WorldWideWeb Rebuild
  Very cool recreation of the first web browser, written for NeXT.
• Prof. Dr. Style
  A fun look at the very early web design, and how bullet-proof it is still.
• Was the Godfather of Soul murdered?
  Completely gripping, totally chilling. I was captivated.
• The Transitive Nightfall of Fatty Egg Rolls
  I’m strangely enthralled by this tale of bygone Deadhead egg rolls, from a bygone website.
• A brief history of wi-fi privacy vulnerabilities | Robert Heaton
  A fascinating look at one of the underpinnings of modern life.

There it is, and here we are. Go forth.

@ThePracticalDev Any chance t.co/ZjB1wT8hB… will support web mentions? #indieweb

Great illustration of the history of immigration policy in the US, aka how we all got here.

If your family came to the United States in the last 200 years (see what I did there?) you owe it to yourself to understand how it was able to happen. t.co/Bm64asD26… t.co/ewshAmMOJ…

Verifying my Blockstack ID is secured with the address 1145uHcCDSoHNahWxJ42trCt1dfcmxH5jk t.co/cSTXNT11x…

I wrote about writing more t.co/Z0VeYFsJS… #meta