Peter O'Shaughnessy @peter@toot.cafe

"It’s actually a big myth that search engines need to track your personal search history to make money or deliver quality search results" - DuckDuckGo's CEO explains how it’s become profitable without gathering user data
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-revenue-generation-model-for-DuckDuckGo/answer/Gabriel-Weinberg

"Early today I receive an alert from Uptime Robot telling me my entire site is down. I receive a barrage of emails from Google saying there is some ‘potential suspicious activity’ and all my systems have been turned off. Everything is off. The Machine has pulled the plug with no warning..."

https://medium.com/@serverpunch/why-you-should-not-use-google-cloud-75ea2aec00de

"[Like Relational Databases] eventually, pretty much everything will have Machine Learning somewhere inside and no-one will care." - Ways To Think About Machine Learning https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2018/06/22/ways-to-think-about-machine-learning-8nefy

@rich_harris @nolan Oops, I thought I had run into one of the Sapper issues Nolan reported, with Webpack chunks failing to load when I serve the exported version. But it turns out that it's because I'm hosting on Github Pages and by default it doesn't serve files starting with an underscore! Fixed by adding a `.nojekyll` file to root of `export` dir though (https://help.github.com/articles/files-that-start-with-an-underscore-are-missing/). So not a Sapper thing but mentioning just in case it's worth adding a note somewhere e.g. in docs about hosting :)

"Now my $1,800 machine is effectively used as a web browser" https://qz.com/1314197/you-dont-need-a-mac-laptop/

"Forget about Clean Code, let’s embrace Compassionate Code" http://johannesbrodwall.com/2018/06/24/forget-about-clean-code-lets-embrace-compassionate-code/

"There was an early phase each of us went through when we were unclear about where imagination ended and reality began... In that state, it was as if anything you imagined leapt into being... If you can't tell what is real, everything is real. Everything is magic... Virtual reality tugs at the soul because it answers the cries of childhood."

#VirtualReality

"Internet-connected locks, speakers, thermostats, lights and cameras that have been marketed as the newest conveniences are now also being used as a means for harassment, monitoring, revenge and control."

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/23/technology/smart-home-devices-domestic-abuse.html

"The man who was fired by a machine"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44561838

I just published "Disappearing Frameworks", about how new web platform features and compile-time frameworks are establishing the next era of web development.

Medium version: https://medium.com/samsung-internet-dev/disappearing-frameworks-ed921f411c38

Personal blog version: https://peteroshaughnessy.com/posts/disappearing-frameworks/

LMK what you think! #webdev #webperf

(Cover photo credit: Stefan Bucher)

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@pixelfed It's very strange. New posts in my timeline now I was able to like OK. Some of the earlier ones though I still can't. One of them I manged to press and the heart button turned red, but the number went down, so it seemed that it actually unliked it. And now I can't like it again!

@pixelfed I'm having trouble pressing the like buttons today. (I've tried in Chrome for Android and Samsung Internet browsers). Has the hit area changed? I've tapped about 20 times now and only managed to actually hit one once!

"The seed that could bring clean water to millions"

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-seed-millions.html

"For me, VR’s greatest value is as a palate cleanser. Everyone becomes used to the most basic experiences of life and our world, and we take them for granted. Once your nervous system adapts to a virtual world, however, and then you come back, you have a chance to experience being born again in microcosm. The most ordinary surface, cheap wood or plain dirt, is bejeweled in infinite detail..."

#VirtualReality

"VR is not about simulating reality, really, but about simulating neural expectations."

#VirtualReality