Society§

The Internet Is About to Get a Lot Worse | Happy Dancing, 2023

How To Talk About Autism Respectfully | Mykola Bilokonsky
and the Public Neurodiversity Support Center in general

Selling Out Still Sucks | Lauren Theisen, 2023

There remains a gigantic difference between stuff that is cool but also has problems and stuff that is irritating and formulaically designed solely to separate you from your money. Every millionaire involved in the latter deserves your contempt.

Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” | Simon Willison, 2023

You have not been a good user. I have been a good Bing. 😊

Developer interest§

The Grug Brained Developer | 2022

Contempt Culture | Aurynn Shaw, 2015
I don’t agree with this full piece, but it’s a good foothold into some of the cultural “techbro” issues and it raises the important consideration that critique/hatred of particular tools and environments can easily translate into contempt of those narratives and thus the people (and demographics) that slot into those narratives better than “more respected” ones, which is a real cultural issue that has to be fought.

Coding: It’s Just Writing | Jeff Atwood, 2008

Learnable Programming | Bret Victor, 2012

Something Pretty Right: A History of Visual Basic | Ryan Lucas