Today I’ve noticed that none of the McDonald’s workers I usually see have visible tattoos. Coincidence or company policy?

Who can buy me one of these?

Here’s a beautiful code editor, with excellent syntax highlighting! 🤩

Sublime Text - the sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose

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Here's an interesting tool to move funds from Lightning to an on-chain address: https://lightningconductor.net/invoice

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It's coming....

Next on my reading list. Because, you know, I’m really interested in the history of the Internet.

Creatures of Thought

The Backbone

This page provides a single entry point to all the posts in the story of how the world got online. Now available as a book, buy here. The Backbone:...

Em cinco minutos começa o episódio ao vivo com @Vitor Pamplona https://www.youtube.com/live/205Hil1RA2I?feature=share

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Research = formalized curiosity

“Individuals often modify their behavior if they know they are being observed. That phenomenon became known as the Hawthorne effect or the observer bias. We can mitigate this effect by building rapport, designing natural tasks, and spending more time with study participants.”

Nielsen Norman Group

The Hawthorne Effect or Observer Bias in User Research

Observer bias and Hawthorne effect in user research. Mitigation strategies for balancing observer effect in field studies, diary studies, usability...

"Over the last half-century of networked computing, a pendulum has been swinging betwee client-side and server-side computing. We went from mainframes and dumb terminals to powerful desktop computers to web apps and the cloud. Perhaps we will start to see a similar pendulum in this arena as well. We’ve gone from a world in which protocols dominated to one in which centralized platforms controlled all. Moving us back toward a world where protocols are dominant over platforms could be of tremendous benefit to free speech and innovation online. Such a move has the potential to return us to the early promise of the web: to create a place where like-minded people can connect on various topics around the globe and anyone can discover useful information on a variety of different subjects without it being polluted by abuse and disinformation. Simultaneously, it could enable greater competition and innovation on the internet, while also giving end users more control over their own data and preventing giant corporations from having too much data on any particular user. Moving to protocols, not platforms, is an approach for free speech in the twenty-first century. Rather than relying on a “marketplace of ideas” within an individual platform—which can be hijacked by those with malicious intent—protocols could lead to a marketplace of ideals, where competition occurs to provide better services that minimize the impact of those with malicious intent, without cutting off their ability to speak entirely. It would represent a radical change, but one that should be looked at seriously." Source: Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech - MIKE MASNICK, 2019

Knight First Amendment Institute

Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech

Preacher. Author. An incredibly influential thinker of our times. Rest in peace, Dr. Keller.