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Written by Hector Correa on 2025-01-31 at 17:23

another great quote from the same talk (around minute 27)

"current technology industry conflates technology products and services with human and scientific progress"

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Written by Hector Correa on 2025-01-31 at 16:42

This talk by @Mer__edith is fantastic:

Feelings are Facts: Love, Privacy, and the Politics of Intellectual Shame

https://youtu.be/bK4OU52RK_I?si=lae6e6Fzaqq7HJ88&t=1894

I particularly like part IV on "Epistemic authority or defining privacy beyond data" around minute 32.

"No, I don't want to own my Facebook data, I want to disavow Facebook as an arbitrator, to reject Facebook's right to know me and my people and the type of person I am to begin with."

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Written by Hector Correa on 2025-01-27 at 19:09

Last week I gave a workshop on web development for beginners. The materials including slides, text, code examples, exercises, and such are all available on this GitHub repository:

https://github.com/hectorcorrea/webdev-nutshell

The workshop covers is:

• What is a web application
• Client-side web development (HTML, CSS)
• Server-side web development (with Ruby & Sinatra)
• And a bit of HTTP.

[#]web #ruby

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Written by Hector Correa on 2025-01-22 at 19:52

hello world

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Written by Hector Correa on 2025-01-15 at 21:41

If you are interested in this kind of stuff this is also another fascinating reading on the subject of long term preservation:

https://lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scale-storage/

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Written by Hector Correa on 2025-01-15 at 21:35

These notes on what Flickr is considering for long term preservation is great.

On the way to 100 years of Flickr

https://www.flickr.org/report-archiving-the-living-environment/

This line from the report that they link to blew my mind:

"The migration of Flickr’s billions of images and 100 million+ user accounts to Amazon Web Services was accomplished in May 2019 and took under 24 hours, in a truly impressive feat of migration."

The report: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X2a5EE3B_GDjAxdAV53zonUxoZWHz5Lo_Je7qW1Q-eU/edit?tab=t.0

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Written by Hector Correa on 2024-12-20 at 14:55

ha ha... I love how @lisrosello refers to AI generated text as "lorem AIpsum"

https://mastodon.social/@lisrosello/113685066241273829

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Written by Hector Correa on 2024-11-01 at 15:39

Finally read @Felienne paper: "A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design" and it's soooooo good:

https://www.felienne.com/archives/8470

I appreciate how nuance her writing is describing how we create these systems in which we value somethings more than others, how it plays in practice to create an environment that lacks representation, and how in the end hurts us all.

Fantastic read.

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Written by Hector Correa on 2024-10-17 at 17:48

I like the approach that Daniel Howard advocated on his lighting talk on mindful software development:

The software development process “can’t be perfect but it can be intentional”

[#]usrse24

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Written by Hector Correa on 2024-10-04 at 15:41

TIL about FAIR(ER) data that advocates for data being "more Equitable and Realistic" in addition to the usual FAIR goals.

https://www.sandia.gov/fairer-data/

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Written by Hector Correa on 2024-10-01 at 04:28

Great bike ride around the Los Angeles river.

[#]Biketooter #LosAngeles

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Written by Hector Correa on 2024-09-12 at 21:27

I went to the Museum of Informatics in Valencia, Spain. They have great exhibits on mainframes, microcomputers, early personal computers, and such. Really a fun visit.

My notes about it:

https://hectorcorrea.com/blog/2024-09-12/computer-museum-valencia

[#]museum #retrocomputing #valencia

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Written by Hector Correa on 2024-09-12 at 14:45

The post on Zero Dependencies by @timbray reminded me of an older post by Joe Armstrong:

Why I often implement things from scratch

http://armstrongonsoftware.blogspot.com/2006/09/why-i-often-implement-things-from.html

"If you have the right tools it's often quicker to implement something from scratch than going to all the trouble of downloading compiling and installing something that somebody else has written."

Tim's post: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/09/04/0dependencies

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