Forgetful Tools

I came across this post from Mark Nottingham on what RSS needs. I’ve written before about my conflicting feelings towards RSS, and I think having a body responsible for interoperability between feed readers as Nottingham suggests could address some of those issues; if there was a standard for handling footnotes and web components, for example....

Tracy Durnell is starting a new series on her blog about wrestling with this mindset of always wanting more. If you’re not already following Tracy’s RSS feed maybe now’s the time; her’s is one of my favorites. She shares lots of interesting articles and is a generally thoughtful person. Personally I’m a little skeptical of how this first post...

Today I learned that Robin Sloan — author of Moonbound — writes software. He has this great story about how he wrote a messaging app for his family. He also articulates very well this desire that many people who can program computers have: that more people should learn to code so that they can write their own little softwares for themselves and...

When I first saw this headline from Streetsblog — I Tried to Hate-Ride a Waymo. Turns Out, I Loved It — I was prepared to hate-read it. Normally I wouldn’t bother hate-reading something, but despite my initial reaction to the headline, I do trust Streetsblog, so I thought I’d try to set aside my preconceptions and see what this was about. Then I...

Erin Kissane, of the Fediversalist Papers, has announced the launch of her new studio, wreckage/salvage. Even though I am off of social media now, I am excited to see what she comes up with, so I’m subscribed to the RSS feed on the site. Personally, I’m pessimistic that it’s possible to have pro-social social media — at least in the sense of...