James Smith 💾 @Floppy@mastodon.me.uk
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❤️ tech, democracy, environment, society. Head of Engineering @ https://apolitical.co, leader @somethingnew. Views != employer's. Neutral Good.
Joined Apr 2017
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* Proportional Representation
* Elected upper house
* Elected Head of State
* Recall for MPs
* Move UK parliament out of London
* Land Value Tax
* Basic Universal Income
* Abolish Non-Dom status
* Evidence-based policymaking
...please.
Over lunch, two comments on how awesome my Xmas jumper is. Today is looking up.
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SQL Clause is coming to town
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Why do people answer Amazon product questions if they don’t know the answer? Do they imagjne that they were the only ones asked? It must be an awfully unclear UI if that the case.
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Some ideas on possible ethical principles for the web, shared first with the fediverse:
There is one web
The web is for the betterment of society
The web must support fundamental human rights
The web must enable freedom of expression
The web is for all people
The web must enhance individual agency
People (end users) come first on the web
Accessibility is non-optional
Security & Privacy are non-optional
The web enables individual developers
The web is inspectable
The web must be sustainable
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Thinking about the state of the web, 2018 from technical, societal and ethical perspectives. Achievements, setbacks, seemingly intractavle problems, surprisingly positive developments. What are your most notable web developments, positive and negative?
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Something dark and terrible and salty and yeasty is happening in the world of underground electronics
https://twitter.com/profanegeometry/status/1071346838882574336
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part of the reason I'm always on about open source and intellectual property rights is because I *want* people to build off my ideas/tools and use them as launching pads for their own original thoughts. so truly, I'm thrilled when people "copy" me. it means I've inspired someone! and that's all the impact I can hope for :)
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Always feel like I’m not going fast enough, but have got some writing started: https://medium.com/platform-land started collecting some useful data: https://www.platformland.org/data/ and started some experimental noodling in python https://www.platformland.org/experiments/
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Four Days Trapped at Sea With Crypto(currency)’s Nouveau Riche https://breakermag.com/trapped-at-sea-with-cryptos-nouveau-riche/
"now more than ever, we also need ... stories that inspire hope."
Oh god yes, we need more utopias to dream of and work towards.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/5/18055980/better-worlds-science-fiction-short-stories-video
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"Welcome to Magic School. Here is your schedule."
"Thanks! But..."
"Yes?"
"This is just 'Ethics' and 'Human rights' and things like that."
"Correct, that's the first year curriculum."
"Do we have to learn all this?"
"Of course! What do you think this is, software engineering?"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
There's now a $160 bounty on a thing I meant to do for an OSS project (not mine, but I was going to send a PR). So I guess that's my evenings allocated for the next few days.
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I’m looking for a Front End Developer to join me in Worthing working on digital transformation in a large government organisation. Interested? Give me a shout. (Not recruiters though, we have enough of those)
Jaffa Cakes are not a biscuit. Nor are they a cake. They are a "liminal sweet baked product".
There are emails in my inbox that are almost 2 years old now. I think I might have to process what I can then just declare email bankruptcy over xmas.
Opened the browser on my phone to see the last page I looked at yesterday: “How to care for your My Little Pony’s hair”. Parenting is weird.
The ∞ stages of software development
* denial
* anger
* confusion
* anger again
* swearing
* more denial
* back to confusion
* realisation
* wondering how you could have been so stupid
* embarrasment
* declaring it all fixed
* GOTO 10
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❤️ tech, democracy, environment, society. Head of Engineering @ https://apolitical.co, leader @somethingnew. Views != employer's. Neutral Good.
Joined Apr 2017
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