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Swung by #OurNetworks2019 yesterday, and heard @jackjamieson and Jennifer Wemigwans on competing visions of decentralization and digital bundles. Whip smart and friendly crowd, very positive energy; nice work @_ournetworks.

— Greg J. Smith (@gr3gjsmith) September 21, 2019

Liked Pull requests and the templated self by Ben Werdmüller (werd.io)

The modern software development process is aruably centered around something called a pull request. Here's a simplified version of how it works:All source code is stored in a source repository (there are many types, but git is the most popular). The main source code that everyone references is store...

Liked Together v3 by Grant Richmond (grant.codes)

Over the last few months I have been completely rebuilding my social reader Together. So I felt I should write a post about it to highlight what's changed and show off what Together has to offer. First off just a little info on the idea of a social reader: A social reader is an application that can ...

Liked Doing well while doing good by Ben Werdmüller (werd.io)

I've always had a complicated relationship with revenue. Back when we were working on the fully-managed version of Elgg in 2006 or so, competing as a bootstrapped company with Ning and its $100M in funding, we differentiated ourselves by charging for our services so we could be more sustainable. A f...

July 15 and 16th are “Prime Day,” Amazon’s attempt to drive up sales and artificial demand around things we don’t need at prices they’ve convinced us that we can afford. Thanks to Mar Hicks, many of us heard that workers at a Shakopee, Minnesota fulfillment center are holding a six-hour work stoppage on one of the busiest days of the year. Alongside, many have called for a boycott on Amazon and its subsidiaries (Whole Foods, Goodreads, Twitch, etc.), and others have called for a general strike to protest Amazon’s collaboration with Palantir in aiding ICE. With all of this in mind, I’ve been reflecting on what larger scale industrial actions could look like when we look at Amazon’s simultaneous leveraging of centralization and unreliability of single resources to provide critical infrastructure for the IT sector and its own operations.