The idea that, as a result of mass surveillance, data collection and social media are leading to behavioral changes.

Using one’s natural tendency to procrastinate in a way that’s productive.

Neglected UX is when parts of the user experience are not quite broken, but subtly incongruous.

Famed animated film studio that created such popular films as Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, and much more.

A book about business strategy by Hamilton Helmer which outlines seven ‘powers’ that are the cause of successful companies.

Technology companies that are small and private, writing software on their own terms.

Change is difficult for people. Solving product problems requires change. The default behavior is resistance to change.

When AI comes about it will be colored by the creators.

The scripts used to embed media such as tweets and YouTube videos include a full complement of ad tracking and third-party cookies which are used to follow visitors around the internet to serve them ads and collect more data.

Blacklight is a tool from The Markup that inspects websites for ad trackers, third party cookies, session recording, keylogging, and other privacy compromising technology.

To optimize code, reduce state, coupling, complexity, and code, in that order.

Software engineers early in their career tend to optimize code by decreasing duplication and applying the DRY (don’t repeat yourself) principle.

Comments on the internet come in multiple waves and are fueled by objections.

You don’t understand a distributed computing problem until you get it to fit on a single machine first.

Stone fish traps in use over the last 40,000 years located in the Barwon River that some believe are the earliest human construction in the world.

A quote from George Lucas about how Star Wars was about he Vietnam War and the backdrop of Nixon’s run for a second term.

A metaphor for how we respond to negative emotions such as anxiety, anger, sadness.

The idea that life originated on another planet and was transported to Earth.

An activity or action one can do regularly that draws people to you because you are providing something of value.

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Converts code into generated music on-the-fly. There’s a sub-genre of electronic music that uses programming tools at live shows where the musician grows the program by writing and reinterpreting code as the audience watches and listens.

Plain text is the lingua franca for storing information that is simultaneously readable and writeable by computers and humans.

A blog post is the synthesis of multiple ideas communicated to an audience where as writing a note is the act of collecting an idea written for yourself.

A blog of working notes that others can read and follow along with to learn about interesting ideas and things you are coming across.