murb's shared items

This tumblr log feeds features my 'shared items' (previously collected by Google Reader). More about me can be found on my personal site murb.nl.

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Laptops today vary greatly in size, weight and purpose, but they all have one common origin: Alan Kay’s Dynabook. Kay, a former Xerox PARC c

@[email protected] “I cringe every time I use a browser for many reasons. The browser people had a chance to make a more integrated UI and functionality, but really did pretty much the opposite in almost all respects. But, because of the attraction, and even some real value of stuff on the internet, there is more pressure to do better. I would expect to see some real alternatives to the typical “bad defacto standard” browsers we've had to put up with.” - Alan Kay, 2008 (accidental find, really not much has changed in this respect.

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The Web3 Fraud

“After all, a programmer doing the most basic test of a web3 prototype is going to need to get the cryptocurrency, spend the cryptocurrency, and any application will require all users to get the cryptocurrency as well. If this gets abandoned quickly due to the inevitable technical failure “web3” still accomplished its goal of getting more suckers in and extracting their money.”

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What we can learn from "_why" the long lost open source developer.

Code might not last forever, but _why proves you can have an impact that outlives your work.

Learned Ruby not through _why, but it had definitely a positive impact on the vibe of the Ruby community. We need more creativity stimulating quirky learning.

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