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A Q&A with Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias NICK COULDRY and ULISES A. MEJIAS Free for commercial use. Via Pixabay Earlier this month, Stanford University Press hosted an online discussion between Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias, authors of...

Data's ability to change the dynamics between states, subjects and citizens has made it a social and political issue. Data is influencing not only our social interactions, tastes, and life choices but also our democracies in general.

AWS today announced its Digital Sovereignty pledge. It's largely a marketing strategy but also a clear sign that it sees this as both a competitive opportunity.

The post presents a blueprint for a principled failure handling strategy that guarantees correctness while maximizing the chance of success

For six months now, I've been in a man-made hell: I am a solo developer. Employed in a company. That can hurt.

Like all great things open-source software started off with good intentions.

A few years ago, I was working on a project where we needed to get a bunch of data about products from various sources around the web. As often happens, what started as a small scripting task that I could just knock out in the background (in my “free time”)...

Shadow DOM is a kind of retcon for the web. As I’ve written in the past, shadow DOM upends a lot of developer expectations and invalidates many tried-and-true techniques that worked fine in t…

As you look around for a new social media platform, I implore you, only use one that is a part of the World Wide Web. tl;dr avoid Hive and Post. If posts in a social media app do not have URLs that can be linked to and viewed in an unauthenticated browser, or if there is no way to make a new post from a browser, then that program is not a part of the World Wide Web in any meaningful way. ...

If you see a set of rules that don’t make sense, that are overly stern, that seemed designed to be offputting instead of helpful, it’s possible that the poster is leaving part of the me…

Sure, R&D is expensive, but the issues run deeper.

But building a design system is a challenging thing. There are tons of things that need to be considered, but they are also easy to…

On Sustainable Technology Software Development, API development, Indutrial IOT

How old is the internet & when was it invented? Explore our simple history of the internet from 1961 to today.

Boulouma Blog writes about business, startups, productivity, technology and lifestyle

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Keyboard Warrior, Breaking software is just finding unintended features, right?

Posted on Thursday 12 Mar 2015. 531 words, 10 links. By Matt Webb.

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Treemaps simultaneously show the big picture, comparisons of related items, and allow easy navigation to the details. We have 10 lessons we've learned that help you better the overall design of treemaps.

This assumption is the core of post-cyberpunk’s body politic. We are subtly conditioned to believe that the optimal way to fix the world is to fix the system — luring us into a state of realism...