status: digging through old weird PDFs of archived Google+ posts
discovered this crossposted birdsite banger from @rstevens: "Your life's Episode IV starts at 30. Everything before that is just prequels."

I'm also digging through my old blog database, trying to see if (after sorting out some terrible latin1/utf8 confusion in the mysql tables) there's anything there worth rescuing and reposting.

It is slim pickings.

everything about this header is such a time capsule from 2011

I sunset my own blog because I moved all my short-form posting to Twitter, and longer posts to Google+.

So that worked out great. 😔

The only things in that header that are still in force:

- name, email
- work (the System UI of Android)
- one of my side projects (Markers, a simple drawing app that is so old it fell off the Play Store)

Are You a Digital Sharecropper?

Will Work for Praise: The Web’s Free-Labor Economy describes how many of today’s websites are built by the users themselves: It’s dawn at a Los Angeles apartment overlooking the Hollywood Hills. Laura Sweet, an advertising creative director in her early 40s, sits at a computer and begins

Coding Horror
@kkrishnanand I'm sure I did, at some point.
@dsandler i forgot about G+! remember when google was only getting started cancelling things?
@rstevens it was a simpler time (so we had to make it more complicated)