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judell

@judell@social.coop

Patron saint of trailing-edge technologies, grateful resident of the nation-state of California.

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J12t, to random
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New_ Public is starting a project on hyperlocal online communities -- neighborhoods, towns, that kind
of thing.

I'd be in, if something like this existed in my neighborhood, and is better than Nextdoor!

/cc @wearenew_public

judell,
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@J12t @wearenew_public Given that we're in a world where FB and NextDoor and other things exist, it's hard for me to imagine a new thing displacing them, no matter how good the software and the culture it embodies.

But maybe it could wrap them, and thus provide something better - for those who want it right away - while offering a smooth upgrade path for people in the legacy services?

judell, to community
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This column was both painful and exhilarating to write. Painful because it forced me to reconsider long-standing assumptions. And exhilarating for the same reason!

https://thenewstack.io/how-llms-can-unite-analog-event-promotion-and-digital-calendars/

datasette-extract reading an event poster

ricmac, to random
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An increasingly familiar discussion about link rot, this one initiated by Rafe Needleman on LinkedIn (hat-tip @pluralistic and @judell). https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rafeneedleman_pluralistic-linkrot-21-may-2024-activity-7199527942530490368-qRc-?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

judell,
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@ricmac @pluralistic I used to give my dad grief for printing out my BYTE articles and saving them in a binder.

Should've saved that binder!

judell,
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@ricmac @pluralistic When CMP bought and killed BYTE, btw, I begged them to rehost the magazine's final 8 years which I had lovingly published to the web.

The assholes refused, and instead scraped byte.com to create the wonky web version that now only exists in Wayback.

Fortunately there is now also a PDF archive of the whole 1975-1999 collection.

Like my dad's binder, I used to mock PDFs. Live and learn.

judell, to random
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My dad flew WW2 naval aircraft and never lost his sense of wonder that planes could fly at all.

His reaction to a new (to me) feature - pins labeling landmarks on the moving flight map, with popup Wikipedia entries explaining them - would have been tears of joy.

judell, to random
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"orcas have been observed developing “cultural ‘fads,’” including carrying dead fish on their heads, and the incidents with the boats may be nothing more than a “fashion trend.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/05/14/orcas-yacht-ambush-gibraltar/

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