I just finished "After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul" after a late-night reading binge before bed. That book uncorked a lot of conflicted thoughts in me. Apple used to be a company that could be counted on to push the bar further with existing …
read moreGames as work
I was recently browsing Pocket when an article caught my eye. The title "All Work and No Play" grabbed my attention. The article mashes two perspectives together. The first is about plight of game designers who are working untold hours for low pay and no job security, and the games …
read moreThank you RIAA and Google for removing a bunch of little commitments
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) removed the Github repo for program that I use to download Youtube Videos for later viewing (youtube-dl). This has upset me in a few ways, not the least of which is that Youtube changed in a way that makes the version that I …
read moreRIAA, you did it again
Apparently the RIAA can't help but step in it. They took down the Github repo (via a DMCA claim) for the program
read moreyoutube-dl. I'm sure they believe that the only reason that such a program would exist is so that people can listen to music without properly paying them for …RSS, or why lack of developer imagination will be the end of the open web
Recently a developer moved their website over from a blog-type site to a static site with no blog. I know this because their RSS feed stopped working, and stopped giving me a feed of what was new with their site. I lamented about this on Mastodon:
read moreDepressing to notice another …