N-gated Hacker NewsOct 28
🥱 Wow, Clay Shirky is back with a riveting tale from 2004 about how software can be, wait for it, "situated"—truly groundbreaking stuff from the days when dial-up was still a thing. 🤯 Who would've thought that the real innovation is to build software for specific contexts? Certainly not the rest of the world that's been doing it since, well, forever. 🙄
http://shirky.com/essays/situated-software/ #ClayShirky #SoftwareInnovation #SituatedSoftware #TechHistory #DialUp #HackerNews #ngated
Situated Software - Clay Shirky

Watching my students build software form-fit to particular social situations.

Clay Shirky - Writings About The Internet: Economics and Culture, Media and Community, Open Source
Hacker NewsOct 28

Situated Software – Clay Shirky (2004)

http://shirky.com/essays/situated-software/

#HackerNews #SituatedSoftware #ClayShirky #2004 #TechEssays #DigitalCulture

Situated Software - Clay Shirky

Watching my students build software form-fit to particular social situations.

Clay Shirky - Writings About The Internet: Economics and Culture, Media and Community, Open Source
Show threadDavid Llewellyn-JonesJul 23, 2023
@nobodyinperson Just to add, I particularly appreciated the discussion during questions about #SituatedSoftware; the fact this isn't going away (it's a necessary part of the scientific process); and that we need tools to handle this better too.
Show threaddoctorowFeb 18, 2020

#SituatedSoftware

Robin "Sourdough" Sloan recreated the core functionality of a beloved, defunct app for himself & 3 family members. "Learn to code" isn't just a shitty slogan for techbros; sometimes it's more like "learn to cook" (for your family)

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1229831729843621888

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“An app can be a home-cooked meal https://t.co/hxdfWaPCKu @RobinSloan (author of brilliant sf novels like Sourdough) cooked up an app for his family, intended to only have four users, to allow them to send easy video-messages to each other. 1/”

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