146 / We can have a different web

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Toot of the Week

“do you know ascii code 7?” “yea, that rings a bell.” — @aiju@chaos.social

Culture

• Seek First to Understand (dannorth.net)

  Daniel North recommends not trying to fix everything when joining a new project, and instead fix the “next one”.

Software

• Software Friction (hillelwayne.com)

  Hillel Wayne about friction in software development and how to reduce it.

• Motorcycles, Cars, Websites, and Seams (blog.jim-nielsen.com)

  Jim Nielsen about the fading options to inspect/repair.

Internet

• Heat Death of the Internet (takahe.org.nz)

  Gregory Bennett tells a fictional, but relatable, story about what the internet has become.

• We can have a different web (citationneeded.news)

  Molly White takes a look at the early web and how it changed, argues we can have it back if we want.

Cutting Room Floor

• 7622 (rknight.me)

  Robb tells the story of how they came to their second “b” (and even changed his legal name).

• Carl Sagan, nuking the moon, and not nuking the moon (eukaryotewritesblog.com)

  Eukaryote writes about a period of time during the world war, where both the USSR and the US considered nuking the moon.