Alyson Fielding @alysonf@mastodon.social
Currently: digital - gov - arts - politics.
This is horribly true lesson (and fascinated by how its continual truth is so viscerally anger-making in some people — including me) http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail
RT @carljackmiller@twitter.com: 2018 needs to be the year of the librarian, the philosopher, the politician, civil servant, the regulator and the digital democrats. And all of us as users of this tech. More than the technologists, this is where the future will be decided.
iamdanw :
agnieszka l. on Twitter:
Technologies change, but the core questions endure. These from 1982 (Reinecke’s Electronic Illusions). Important we keep asking them.
“I feel that the events in our lives are like a series of bells being struck and the vibrations spread outwards, affecting everything, our present, and our futures, of course, but our past as well."
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/may/04/nick-cave-death-son-struggle-write-tragedy
Morning gang!
I've been ranting about Amazon's developer experience for Alexa Skills.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2017/05/amazon-alexa-and-solar-panels/
Basically, it is RUBBISH! A terrible experience trying to get multiple Amazon accounts talking to each other, out of date tutorials, and extremely limited options.
The Echo / Dot think is a fun toy, but a right pain to develop for. Pretty hard to use as well.
Voted.
A set of labels for my work in progress Trello board to help me work smarter. Someone else must have made this list better already, right? But who?
Tech and the UK general election event. London, Thursday April 20, Newspeak House. https://attending.io/events/civic
'If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in.'
July, 1937
This is a good thing: help convert PDFs into an open database of local election candidates ahead of May 4. Takes just a few minutes to help out. https://democracyclub.org.uk/quests/
Kewpies like
(Dammit, Urusei Yatsura)
Morning.
