The Costs of Connection – How Data is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating it for Capitalism
Data colonialism: compelling and useful, but whither epistemes?
This commentary reviews the strengths of the concept of data colonialism, arguing that it makes a strong and useful contribution to the debates on how to make sense of the myriad effects of datafic...
The Nuances of Data Colonialism
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 Sovereignty: Here’s how critical it is for India's digital roadmap - ET CIO
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 announces Digital Sovereignty Pledge
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.
Handling Failures From First Principles
The post presents a blueprint for a principled failure handling strategy that guarantees correctness while maximizing the chance of success
Being a solo developer - inside a company.
For six months now, I've been in a man-made hell: I am a solo developer. Employed in a company. That can hurt.
Fuzzy Databases
Open-Source Software Tax
Like all great things open-source software started off with good intentions.
How I saw too much information coming back from a company’s backend | Otterize
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 and accessibility: the trouble with ARIA
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…
PSA: Do Not Use Services That Hate The Internet
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. ...
Human-in-the-Loop and Other AI Mistakes
You left out the all caps part
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…
Technical Posts Overview and Roundup
SMTP Smarthost – Dustin's Blog
How Alexa, Echo, and other devices became a drag on Amazon’s revenue
Sure, R&D is expensive, but the issues run deeper.
The Challenges of Implementing a Design System
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
On Sustainable Technology Software Development, API development, Indutrial IOT
Schelling Point
A History of WebAssembly
Why Is There So Much Crap Software In The World – Software the Hard way
All around us, we are surrounded by crappy software. Pension funds that are stumbling along using decades old batch scripts with faulty assumptions. Credit agencies have leaked over a hundred milli…
History of the Internet
How old is the internet & when was it invented? Explore our simple history of the internet from 1961 to today.
Being a Chief Technology Officer is 18 responsibilities, and a lot of fun
Boulouma Blog writes about business, startups, productivity, technology and lifestyle
The 19 shoulds of writing clean code
Boulouma Blog writes about business, startups, productivity, technology and lifestyle
Keyboard Warrior - Breaking software is just finding unintended features, right?
Keyboard Warrior, Breaking software is just finding unintended features, right?
A Richter scale for outages
Posted on Thursday 12 Mar 2015. 531 words, 10 links. By Matt Webb.
My old Richter scale for system outages, revisited
Posted on Wednesday 23 Nov 2022. 1,087 words, 10 links. By Matt Webb.
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10 Lessons in Treemap Design — Juice Analytics
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.