wilkie @wilkie@mastodon.social

another day writing papers for scientific journals. everybody keeps asking me if they can read them. buddy, they won't even let me read them

I wrote a personal essay on federated social web meets the rogue archivists, the nuance and power of forgetting, and building social software around consent and archival resistance. https://wilkie.how/posts/social-archival

It is 2074. Copyright is no longer extended since rich people no longer die. All librarians are unseen outlaws building archives underground. This is their story.

imaging some floppies that are as old as I am. here's hoping somebody images me someday.

ban rich people from being elected to office

my beautiful workflow-job-scheduler-visualization baby

I correctly performed geometry!

Van Halen is when you and several other people need a taxi

wow. Riot settles their class action agreeing to pay out $10 million in salary reparations across all women employed there in the last 5 years. https://kotaku.com/riot-settles-lawsuit-will-pay-every-female-employee-si-1840156366

i think we can all agree that folks on this website who send replies starting with "Uhh..." or "Umm..." are evil

contrary to a false history, we have ALWAYS developed infrastructure in support of human connection. recent advancement shows us that tech *could* liberate our differences and connect us all, therefore we see a surge of new ways to vilify that connection... to make it seem vacuous and childish somehow.

we aren't addicted to services; we just really like human connection and tech companies are devilishly desperate to monopolize that experience

i need to stop writing an accessible and modular canvas-based JavaScript hex editing component that progressively downloads and renders data... and do my actual job.

just my phone camera and a cheap photo box as a first try. many boxes are semi-glossy, so I'll need to diffuse the light a little differently next time and borrow a better camera from my local library.

Meshroom, a FOSS photogrammetry tool, worked very well in this rough pass at 3D-scanning boxes https://alicevision.org/

Rejoice! I'm up at a reasonable time post-holiday!

*gestures wildly* i want the altoids *gestures wildly-er* but i don't want the tin

this holiday I'm thankful for the fact that half of a byte is called a nybble.

read about Professor Liskov, understand Liskov principles, think about consequences, design better software https://www.quantamagazine.org/barbara-liskov-is-the-architect-of-modern-algorithms-20191120/

programming is summed up by being utterly disappointed in things named as <word> followed by <two letters>

I used to code for days to get a black screen with OpenGL. now I code for days to get a blank page with AngularJS.