Chris Rabl 2023-09-08 03:00:33 Been a while since I've posted here, but I've been playing around with Domain Driven Design and drawing context maps: ended up building a little React app to help me draw them. It's not much, but I think the "auto-blobbing" is kind of a neat/cute interaction. There's actually a surprising amount of computational topology behind it!
Kartik Agaram 2023-09-09 23:30:35 📝 Kartik Agaram (@akkartik)
I like to say that software is often just bureaucracy by other means (though it could be oh so much more).
This might be the single-most powerful example of that on the internet: https://rclone.org/drive/#making-your-own-client-id
The reason I sought this page out:
- I want to download a copy of my baby photos in case Google shuts me out in future.
Google should be required to report reading burdens like the OMB does for US govt. forms.
Eli Mellen 2023-09-09 23:50:55 I recently heard someone say “if the state has a monopoly on violence, than schools have a monopoly on discipline.”
Ever since I heard it, I’ve been trying to articulate this quip to be about the tech industry — and, while I haven’t succeeded at that quip-creation, yet…this feels all connected.
Eli Mellen 2023-09-09 23:52:35 related: a useful description of authoritarianism is when power is so exclusively centralized that the public is powerless to effect change.
in a lot of ways, google has creeped up on becoming an authoritarian power over this sorta data
Kartik Agaram 2023-09-10 00:10:30 See also: this episode on legalism from this podcast I sometimes listen to.
