Platforms Suck When the internet first started being a thing for the general population, it was met with great excitement about how it would democratize the distribution of information, both for publishers and consumers. In general this has been true, but in the earlier days, it was more true than it is today. Back then, … Continue reading A Better Social Internet
AI is BORING
This post is going to be largely a rehashing of Adam Conover's recent video on the topic, but I already held these opinions before seeing that video. If you'd rather just watch that, here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro130m-f_yk Immediately after watching that video, I saw that our dear friend Hank Green made a video about how … Continue reading AI is BORING
Carbon and Other “Successor Languages”
Looking at the Carbon document on GitHub, they list several "successor languages": Java -> Kotlin (creator / maintainer: Jetbrains, supported by Google)Objective-C -> Swift (creator / maintainer: Apple)Javascript -> Typescript (creator / maintainer: Microsoft)C++ -> Carbon (creator / maintainer: Google) What do ALL of these successor languages have in common? They have all been created … Continue reading Carbon and Other “Successor Languages”
The Internet Has Failed
I wanna go on a little rant about "the internet" and how far our expectations have fallen. When it first started to be a thing, the internet was a bunch of individuals connecting their machines through commonly shared protocols that made it possible for anyone to participate. We created a bunch of new ideas that … Continue reading The Internet Has Failed
My Mormon Mission Experience
Today while cruising Reddit I saw a post about Mormon missions (yes, Mormon. This is the word I was raised with and I'm not going to submit to Russel's 30 year old grief with Gordon), and I decided that I would go ahead and share my experience as I remember it. Obviously some details aren't … Continue reading My Mormon Mission Experience
I.33: The Common Blow
After writing my previous post about the blow in I.33, I started looking into the first play again with what I discussed in mind. There's a lot packed into a small space with regards to the first play (literally, the author was writing sideways in the margins), and part of what's in there is a … Continue reading I.33: The Common Blow
Is the Steam Deck a Nintendo killer?
The Steam Deck is a handheld gaming platform entering a handheld game market dominated by the Nintendo Switch for real games and phones/tablets for useless distractions. People playing on phones and tablets aren’t the same as people playing on the Switch, and the Deck will compete much more directly with Nintendo‘s handheld. Can the Deck … Continue reading Is the Steam Deck a Nintendo killer?
The Blow in I.33
About ten or so years ago, I became entranced by this medieval manuscript, Royal Armouries I.33. It's the earliest surviving European fencing manuscript that is publicly known, probably originating in the late 13th to early 14th century. Its subject matter covers a unique form of sword and buckler fencing. There's been one question that's evaded … Continue reading The Blow in I.33
The Solution to Every Text Input Problem
Have you ever wanted to be able to actually type on your phone without a robot trying to read your mind based on your typos? Have you ever wanted to be able to type quickly and accurately with a game controller? Have you ever gotten frustrated trying to search for a TV Series on Netflix … Continue reading The Solution to Every Text Input Problem
Should We Pay People to Get Educated?
Short answer: yes. Thanks for reading my blog. Here's a link to my Ko-fi. For the longer answer, I'd like you to consider a metaphor. Imagine that I'm an operations engineer for an organization and my job is to set up computers to run various software, or maybe I create relationships between different computer systems. … Continue reading Should We Pay People to Get Educated?
Todd's Corner 