Kevin Marks @kevinmarks@mastodon.social

for years "mods are asleep" has been a joke relic from the forum days but the fediverse brings us to an era where the mods can let you know that they're awake by boosting your "mods are asleep" joke and then you can scold them to go to bed because you know their timezone and this isn't healthy

My post on the Mozilla Hacks blog was just published! "Identity for the Decentralized Web with IndieAuth" https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/10/dweb-identity-for-the-decentralized-web-with-indieauth/

If you're at #iiw today, I'll be at demo hour showing how this works!

I think it is time to re-read A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy: http://www.shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/group_enemy.html

»the group is real. It will exhibit emergent effects. It can't be ignored, and it can't be programmed«
»The constitution is always partly formal and partly informal. …The informal part is the sense of "how we do it around here." And no matter how is substantiated in code or written in charter, whatever, there will always be an informal part as well. «
#indieweb

“Dread of Heinleinism - Charlie’s Diary” http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/08/dread-of-heinleinism.html

@natecull @kevinmarks I think it's interesting to call it a 'bug' - Lovelace had no way to run her program, and thus no way to test and no way to iterate. It may be more accurate to call it a typo - she was writing Note G out by hand, after Babbage (or the printer) lost the original version that she'd sent over to him. It's easy to imagine that the printer was also unable to properly comprehend what he was typesetting and thus could easily have introduced the error.

I wrote about the theory of Mastodon versus Twitter early last year; I think it's still mostly right http://www.kevinmarks.com/mastodontheory.html

rel-me decentralised verification now works for mastodon - yay! Shame Google Plus broke it, and twitter needs a hack.

A huge shout out to @mozilla for sponsoring the Leaders Breakfast at @IndieWebCamp NYC https://indieweb.org/2018/NYC#Sponsors. Does your browser support internet freedom? It should. Time to say #foxyeah to supporting the #IndieWeb

http://jgregorymcverry.com/6040-2/

I want to thank @scsu for being a Partnership Sponsor of @IndieWebCamp NYC. As a faculty member of a university with a #socialjustice mission I am proud to be at a school fighting for the #IndieWeb  https://indieweb.org/2018/NYC#Sponsors

http://jgregorymcverry.com/6042-2/

“Today, I constantly remind myself before publishing any article that I am publishing this on *my* blog (which means that I can publish anything I want), and that it doesn’t matter if people read it or not.”

Just write.
By Sara Soueidan
https://www.sarasoueidan.com/desk/just-write/

Do you remember when the last programming language arrived, in 1981, and it was literally called The Last One, and every program ended in a line saying 'TERMINATE' and how we all laughed

and then came the nuclear fires of Judgement Day

https://modeling-languages.com/last-one-code-generator-basic-1981/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_(software)

Protip:

When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,

"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes

I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."

Why don’t we call them post-partums? The project is not dead, to be buried; it is born, to be supported.

---
Tell us: What are your tips for conducting a positive post mortem at the end of a project? How do you talk through the weak points without assigning blame? Responses go in the magazine.
https://twitter.com/netmag/status/986642311911280641