- A New Luxury Retreat Caters to Elderly Workers in Tech (Ages 30 and Up) – The New York Times
On the face of it, this is an absurd idea, born to soak up the excess cash of the over-privileged. Counterpoint: I am in my 40s. I no longer have the time, energy, or desire to spend my spare time studying the latest hot tech framework (at the expense of seeing friends, or basic life admin), or to re-skill into machine learning or the next highly-employable trend. I *am* becoming irrelevant in my own industry. I would love help figuring out how to cope with that better – both personally and professionally. (And I know I've got it easy…)
Category: Digitalia
Links for Thursday April 11th 2019
- 5 Day Sword Course | Owen Bush
Bookmarking this to come back to later/possibly for next summer.
Links for Tuesday April 2nd 2019
- A Few Simple Steps to Vastly Increase Your Privacy Online
This is a really good guide – there are a few things in here I didn't know about, and will start doing.
Links for Monday March 18th 2019
- Homestead Fifty Six | Joe Ferguson
The horrible fear that I'm going to need this in the long term for work.
Links for Thursday March 14th 2019
- Timeline – Time to Play Fair
Despite my fondness for Apple products, I am willing to be critical of Apple when they're being arseholes. They're being massive arseholes, here, to the detriment of their own users. I would very much welcome an option for iOS developers to implement their own payment systems in apps, if they did not wish to give apple a cut, and I hope the EU finds in Spotify's favour.
Links for Wednesday March 6th 2019
- Install, configure, verify memcached on CentOS | Magento 2 Developer Documentation
I've never worked much with CentOS, but I need to do this in the next week or two.
Links for Monday March 4th 2019
- Daring Fireball: Life as a Facebook Moderator
The article he's linking to has been doing the rounds, but it's Mr Gruber's critique I found especially resonant, particular this quote: "There is something fundamentally wrong with a platform that – while operating exactly as designed – requires thousands of employees to crush their own souls." I use Facebook these days, but I still think that broadly, we'd all actually be better off if it was simply shut down. I don't think it provides any net benefit that we did not manage better with other tools before it existed.
Links for Monday February 25th 2019
- Laravel Shift – the automated way to upgrade Laravel applications
I'm going to try this out later.
Links for Monday February 18th 2019
- Fingerprint.js – The most advanced open-source fraud prevention JS library
Mostly a note to self for the future. Might need this for a bunch of stuff. - Help! None of my projects want to be SPAs | Jason Goldstein
This rings very true. 99% of the project I work on are CUD operation stuff, with limited visual updating. My major use for Vue (which I picked up instead of React) is to simplify my JS form handling a bit, and manage the ajax elements, not really anything clever.
Links for Thursday February 14th 2019
- New AI fake text generator may be too dangerous to release, say creators | Technology | The Guardian
If I were a professional fiction writer, I'd be scared right now. This tells me that automating the job of producing fiction just got a generation closer. (I mean, I guess, counterpoint – write an outline, get a novel.)