The City and The Freezing of Life The drive to urbanization is an imperative of capitalism, this drive results in 'a freezing of life'— a static world devoid of spontaneity, the result of land development and bureaucratic zoning laws optimized for rent seeking and increased land valuations, devoid of nature and where its residents have no ability to change their surroundings to suit their daily ways of living
Against Facebook On the commodification of attention, the abuses of unpaid microwork and strategies of resistance.
Contextual Components and Changesets in Ember This talk is a code walkthrough, implementing a date picker to showcase the power of ember-changeset and contextual components. Given at the Ember Boston Community meetup.
ember-i18n-changeset-validations An Ember addon that provides internationalized validation messages to ember-changeset-validations
Encouraging individual sovereignty and a healthy commons Mark Zuckerberg’s manifesto outlines his vision for a centralised global colony ruled by the Silicon Valley oligarchy. I say we must do the exact opposite and create a world with individual sovereignty and a healthy commons.
Optimism is your weapon!, Inherently Good, and the Public Good This essay aims in a very Lakoff way to introduce readers to key words that hopefully will stick and roll off the tongue when recalled. Its quality is also the product of being pressed for time but…
A Retrospective — Responsive Design Not too long ago, there was a great debate between two sides of the web. The 'Responsive' web vs the 'm.'' web. One pushing for a single codebase that responds to user-context and another pushing for a second, mobile-only approach (typically using a subdomain starting with m.) Its clear now, the responsive web has won.
Development Lifecycle with Docker and Elastic Beanstalk This article explains the advantages of using Docker over automated configuration management tools, and describes a workflow from development through QA and into production deployment using Amazons' Elastic Beanstalk.
When to Use Git Merge vs Git Rebase This article will attempt to provide an overview to the different workflows, and explain when merge and rebase are the more appropriate workflow to use.
pandora’s vox: on community in cyberspace when i went into cyberspace i went into it thinking that it was a place like any other place and that it would be a human interaction like any other human interaction. i was wrong when i thought that
