Tue Mar 18
Cyberculture pioneer Alice Mary Hilton; background image: Nam June Paik, Electronic Superhighway (1995). If you search for “cyberculture” today in Wikipedia, you are re-directed to the page for “Internet culture” — which rightly indicates that the internet is now just a normal part of culture. But if you go back 30...
Subcurrent now posts RSS updates to Discord. Will it spark discussion around the content?
A mission post by Petty Officer 2nd Class Kennet Ek, Lieutenant JG Lia t'Rehu Mission - Blow Their Bloody Lobes Off The sun fast approached the horizon and the early afternoon sunset of the solstice as Kenny stood with her hands buried deeply in the pockets of her rainbow gradient snow coat in Gävle's Slottstorget....
Earlier, I wrote that there isn’t just one type of cloud; it ranges from renting out servers to fully managed office software as a service. One relevant type of cloud use is what’s informally called “cloud-native.” I wrote in that earlier page that a “cloud-native developer” does not work based on servers. If you...
Writing, giving, and soliciting feedback via your inbox. For over 25 years, I’ve been using email to collaborate and work with people. Before there were any messaging platforms, project management tools, and hybrid tools like Slack and Discord, phone calls, Skype and email were most of what you had. Along the way,...
This is the fifth post in my series on Rails Controllers. Originally published last year, I have revised it and have included the new expect method introduced in Rails 8.As Rails developers, we are used to using post_params or user_params methods in our controller classes. Until recently, I had no idea why we were...
Hello! It feels like ages since my last update. This has been baking quite a while in the oven and it's a great relief (and also a little scary) to put it out into the world. You can see what it's about from the title...
Not a few people ask for financial help via the internet when they have an expense above and beyond their normal obligations. It's impossible to evaluate the majority of them. Funds for most of us are limited. One may feel sorry for another's misfortunes, but it's impossible to help everyone. What to do? Pray for...