Tanuj

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But they grossly overstate the amount of decentralization in web3. The data itself is quite decentralized, at least on the popular blockchains, but that’s about where the decentralization ends. If someone wants to build a dApp on a given blockchain, they usually use one of a handful of APIs built by companies like Alchemy to read and write to their... See more

Molly White • Blockchain-based systems are not what they say they are

When you liberate programming from the requirement to be general and professional and scalable, it becomes a different activity altogether, just as cooking at home is really nothing like cooking in a commercial kitchen. I can report to you: not only is this different activity rewarding in almost exactly the same way that cooking for someone you... See more

Robin Sloan • An App Can Be a Home-Cooked Meal

But it wasn't long after that that the Ace editor, I believe it was, was kind of the first, really solid, open source, in the browser code editor. And that seemed to unlock a kind of explosion of people seeing that. I know Github used it in the early days for some of their stuff, but lots of other projects as well. Suddenly people saw, oh, there's... See more

Muse • Infinite canvases with Steve Ruiz // Metamuse podcast episode 59

Consequently, in its idealized form the scientific method limits freedom of the will, while technology amplifies freedom of the will. Technology is by no means derived with certainty. It is the extremely particular result of someone’s will, based on rationalizing through the concrete and contingent circumstances of the world.

Saffron Huang • What is Technology? — Letters to a Young Technologist

Another way to see that noticing the right details is hard, is that different people end up noticing different details.

johnsalvatier.org • Reality Has a Surprising Amount of Detail

Maintaining multiple reading positions is difficult when reading digitally

Andy Matuschak • Reading texts on computers is unpleasant

A wheel of emotional words.

Imgur • I Feel - Emotional Word Wheel - The Feel Wheel

Advantages of a book in web format: doesn’t require iPad or Kindle, you can actually design it, it’s easy to search, it’s connected with the author, it’s interactive.

Bureau Gorbunov • Future of the book. Manifesto of Bureau Gorbunov Publishing

Did the way the text was presented allow you to notice or think about the actual information captured in the text as you would like?

Reading is an active effort.There is a lot of thinking going on in our heads when we read a text, but we don't get a chance to mirror - and build on top of - basically any of it while we read. We have to hold it all in... See more