Zeit Here, Zeit Now: Watching the WWW Wake Up to Container Hosting

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Article note: Starting up Reclaim Today has been a total blast and I'm looking forward to continuing to build on these conversations in the open. Not only is it useful for us as a company but it's infinitely valuable as a way to archive the work we're doing in the moment to reference later.

It was a pretty busy week at Reclaim Hosting, and I am up early on a Saturday morning working on the final migrations of our shared hosting infrastructure to Digital Ocean. Bye, bye ReliableSite! Continue reading →

Brew Log #21 – Abyssopelagic | Black Gose w/ Squid Ink & Coconut Ash

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Article note: I love the idea of brewing something that looks one way and tastes another. And this is most definitely a weird example of that. Good stuff

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The abyssal zone is the second deepest layer in the ocean (or, the deepest, if you don’t count the Marianas trench). No light from the sun can ever pierce its depths, which are typically inhabited by bizarre creatures who’s life has only known darkness. Sulfur geysers and giant squids call this level of the ocean home. Continue reading →

Reading Robert Putnam, _Our Kids_, together online

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Article note: I'll be following along and decided to buy the hardcover copy. It's been a long time since a read a real book and it's a habit I'd like to get back into.

Robert Putnam, _Our Kids_Last week I mentioned wanting to read Robert Putnam’s new book, Our Kids (Simon & Schuster, 2015).  That’s because it’s an important, attention-winning new work, and because it bears closely on inequality and education issues I’ve been examining.

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Reading Robert Putnam, _Our Kids_, together online

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Article note: I'll be following along and decided to buy the hardcover copy. It's been a long time since a read a real book and it's a habit I'd like to get back into.

Robert Putnam, _Our Kids_Last week I mentioned wanting to read Robert Putnam’s new book, Our Kids (Simon & Schuster, 2015).  That’s because it’s an important, attention-winning new work, and because it bears closely on inequality and education issues I’ve been examining.

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(Why) Does Your Education Website Collect Information about Visitors?

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Article note: I have mixed feelings on this because I think we need to push against the narrative that all analytics and tracking is bad and an invasion of privacy. I'd like to see more people take control of their own privacy via browser plugins and settings rather than the onus being on website owners. But I think the message here that people should have a good understanding of the implications of those fancy JS snippets they embed in widgets is really good.

Earlier this year, the Associated Press broke a story that HealthCare.gov was “quietly sending consumers’ personal data to private companies that specialize in advertising and analyzing Internet data for performance and marketing. Continue reading →

(Why) Does Your Education Website Collect Information about Visitors?

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Article note: I have mixed feelings on this because I think we need to push against the narrative that all analytics and tracking is bad and an invasion of privacy. I'd like to see more people take control of their own privacy via browser plugins and settings rather than the onus being on website owners. But I think the message here that people should have a good understanding of the implications of those fancy JS snippets they embed in widgets is really good.

Earlier this year, the Associated Press broke a story that HealthCare.gov was “quietly sending consumers’ personal data to private companies that specialize in advertising and analyzing Internet data for performance and marketing. Continue reading →

Cocoa for Web Services

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Article note: Between this article and Caulfield's recent slew of posts on a "storage-neutral" future of applications I've been enjoying the theory of where applications are going in relations to web-based services a lot.

Brent Simmons:

The cloud is more than just a file system. It’s data plus code.

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Vogel.

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Article note: Archive.org isn't enough, but they are one of the best and most capable orgs to handle this and I hope we can find a way to. We're losing much of the history of the web everyday as companies close their doors.

We need a web design museum.

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MRRF: Repables, The Nonprofit 3D Object Repository

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Article note: I really need to get my stuff off of the Thingiverse one of these days and I truly want another repository to succeed. I don't know if this is the one though. In typical RepRap fashion almost everything on the front page is parts for 3D printers and other machines and no compelling images of anything I'd want to print.

Repables

There’s a problem with online repositories of 3D printable objects: The largest repo, Thingiverse, is generally looked down upon by the 3D printing community. Continue reading →