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A good problem for tech to solve is this: How do you turn a bunch of random strangers into a community?

You know you're in a community when people help each other move house, for example.

Tech heads are re-discovering what "community" actually means, after overusing and abusing the term for the last two decades when they actually meant to say "audience" or "network"…

Just read an article about employers increasingly monitoring their WFH employees with software installed on their computers. This is the "sitting at a desk and typing" measure of p…

For sure, we need to collectively recognise how much real work takes place in this mode. I once collaborated with a colleague to design and implement a data sync framework. For six…

I know it's bleak, but the API now includes build server style badges, like this: https://corona.kranzky.com/badge.svg

Nice, I remember playing with Dasher many moons ago; visited David MacKay (RIP) back in 1996. In 2009 I developed my own text input system called D-Board. There's a brief video of …

I suggest you read "Bullshit Jobs: A Theory", by David Graeber. He explains that apprentice -> journeyman -> master no longer holds; we all get stuck at journeyman, working in the …

Oh. Well, damn. I guess Steve Yegge was right. Anyway, wouldn't it be great if Google launched a kick-ass text editor?

Great stuff, and awesome to see this coming from Google (and in Rust instead of Go). Interesting historical note: The author of Sublime Text left Google to work on it by himself wh…

A semi-serious brain dump after working with GitHub's new features for a day.

Thinking about Chomsky and Hong Kong lead to writing this brain-dump.

This is obviously, I hope, all just a bit of fun.

Well, it is kind-of possible for Ruby/Rails. I half-built such a system once. Here's what you do: * Gather coverage information when running tests or compiling assets. * Use that t…

Things I would build: * Push conflicted branches so developers in a distributed team can work together to resolve conflicts. * A git-powered version of Rake, which runs only those …

Nice work! I built something similar that keeps everything in Ruby. It was made to allow models built in Excel by a non-programmer to be executed on the back-end of a Rails app, bu…

OK, fixed the autoscroll I think. Let me know if it does / doesn't work for you.