Digitalia – Page 17 – Alasdair Watson

Links for Thursday August 13th 2015

The ethics of modern web ad-blocking – Marco.org
This is pretty much my position. I don't mind (ell, I do, but I'll live with it) being show a few adds in exchange for content. I *do* mind being tracked by 15 different sources, none of whom I have given informed consent to be tracked by, and none of whom are ever made clear. So I block ads and trackers, and encourage others to do the same.

Eddie Campbell and the Mythology of Minutiae
Everyone should read Eddie Campbell. If you have not, I encourage you to read this article, and then acquire a copy of Alec. Any volume. Or any of his other works.

How I Gave Up Alternating Current | Mostly Harmless
The creator of Soylent is a bit of a twat, film at 11. What interests me here isn't the ultra-ascetic life he's chosen for himself, or his total obliviousness to a: the horror of it, b: the phenomenal privilege that enables him to do it (c: what he sounds like) – it's simply the fact that he's been able to do it at all. This isn't the unevenly distributed future talking, but I suspect it's a marker on the way.

Ia, Ia, Google Fthagn – Charlie’s Diary
Guesting at Mr Stross' blog, Hugh offers a superb take on the Lovecraftian nightmare of the present day.

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Alasdair

Scotch Box ♥ A Vagrant LAMP Stack That Just Works
This could be handy. I'm mostly using homestead at home, and custom work builds, but homestead has a few oddities, and it might be nice to get a completely standard version VM.

Posted on July 24, 2015 by Alasdair

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Alasdair

WordPress Optimization Bible | Prelovac.com
Contains some useful notes on hwo to optimise MySQL config for wordpress.

Posted on July 14, 2015 by Alasdair

FRANKFURTER BRETT // The kitchen workbench by Johannes Schreiter & Joseph Schreiter — Kickstarter
This looks beautiful and useful, and I would love to get one and the appropriate containers. One day…