A conversation with Harper Reed
On Long Term Software Development - Bert Hubert's writings
Recently the Dutch Electoral Board (where I am also a very part time advisor) invited me to do a talk reflecting on their open source Abacus vote tabulation software. Much software is now provided as a service, and is typically deployed continuously (CD, continuous deployment), surrounded by enough automated testing (CI, continuous integration) that we can be reasonably sure that a new revision is likely to at least work to some extent.
From Haymarket to Prairieland: How dissent has unleashed the long arm of the law
The Prairieland sentencing has dark historical parallels, Kim Kelly writes. But we can change the end of the current story.
The hacker crackdown: law and disorder on the electronic frontier
A journalist investigates the past, present, and future…
Raising An Agent Episode - Episode 10
Agents Done Right: A Framework Vision for 2026
Agents choke on context, loop on failures, and dump walls of code for review. It's time to rethink the architecture.
harper-desktop: init at 2.7.0 by TyceHerrman · Pull Request #545822 · NixOS/nixpkgs
harper-desktop: init at 2.6.0 Adds Harper Desktop, a privacy-first, offline grammar checker that provides system-wide writing suggestions on macOS. This is separate from the existing harper CLI/LSP...
Ted Nelson on Pernicious Computer Traditions
Bill C-22’s Groundhog Day: Why the Government’s Dismissal of Signal, Apple and the U.S. Congress Concerns Runs Back the Disastrous Online News Act Playbook - Michael Geist
Secure messaging service Signal yesterday became the latest company to warn that Bill C-22, the lawful access bill, could force it to leave the Canadian market rather than comply with provisions it says would compromise its end-to-end encryption and create new cybersecurity risks. Signal vice-president Udbhav Tiwari told the Globe and Mail that the company “would rather pull out of the country than be compelled to compromise on the privacy promises we have made to our users.” The comments are part of a steady stream of similar warnings from Apple, Meta, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the Cybersecurity Advisors Network, and the chairs of the U.S. House Judiciary and Foreign Affairs Committees. Despite growing concern, the government’s response has been to launch a misleading social media campaign and repeatedly insist that the experts and companies are mistaken.
A Systems Literacy Manifesto
In 1968, West Churchman wrote, “…there is a good deal of turmoil about the manner in which our society is run. …the citizen has begun to suspect that the people who make major decisions that affect our lives don’t know what they are doing.”[1] Churchman was writing at a time of growing concern about war, civil rights, and the environment. Almost fifty years later, these concerns remain, and we have more reason than ever “to suspect that the people who make major decisions that affect our lives don’t know what they are doing.” Examples abound.
Bailey Townsend | Software Developer
Bandaid Engineer and open source software developer.
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398573453312
What is Semble?
A collection of various explanations of this very “app”
This is really exciting to see! I think some magical things can happen when we "free" our links from static pages and let them intermingle…
Sensors, not just bookmarks [Patterns of Sensemaking #1] - Cosmik Labs
taurean (@taurean.bryant.land)
connections collecting things of a "theme" and making connections
Lego Brick Commons & Spontaneous Collaboration - Wesley's notes
I think about semble as the infrastructure for social bookmarking and explorations of the collective sensemaking that emerges on top of it.
