Lunch, no salads to be had not even for ready money.
Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers
Such a great talk and slides from Maggie Appleton. And from my own experience, barefoot developing for myself alone, I think she is absolutely right in her forecast and in the things the future she imagines will need.
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240604-W-B1N8LG
* On foot
* 43.149186, 11.449313
* Tuesday 4 June, 2024
* 423.81 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
Not quite as close as I could be, but a better view. The quest is somewhere behind the bush on the left.
Latest episode: Women Butchers.
Cheap supermarket meat has made life hard for butchers. At the same time, a few younger people are taking an interest in butchery. I shouldn’t have been surprised that many of them are women, some of whom agreed to tell me their stories. https://eatthispodcast.com/butchery
There seems to be a bit of a theme to my morning linkages, with The Luddite making a good case against Substack and all the other so-called tech companies bent on “eventually becoming a pointless middleman in an industry that they’ve now cornered”.
https://theluddite.org/#!post/case-against-substack
For Creators, Ad-Blocking Focuses On The Wrong Problem
Google ... is essentially telling people who used their service for decades that they may have believed that the goal of its service was to “find websites,” but Google thinks the actual goal of its website is to “find answers.” Those are two different things, and one ignores the deeply extractive nature of the other.
Who, currently, is still working on the problem of micropayments? Because, optimistic fool that I am, I still believe that whoever succeeds will not only make money, they will enjoy the undying adulation of many millions of people forever and a day.
Stop Press: I just asked specifically, and sardines are different. Unlike anchovies, no need to refrigerate unopened tins.