Human with love and curiosity for humanity.
Originally from the Pacific Northwest shores of Anacortes, Washington. Currently living on the banks of the Anacostia in Washington D.C.
Public servant for the American people supporting civic infrastructure, open data, open government, and human centered service design.
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@mosseri Congrats on joining the fediverse! It's great to see this all come together.
I thought bi-directional rel=me link verification was part of the Threads fediverse rollout, but as far as I can tell it's still not supported.
Am I missing something?
cc: @anildash @digiphile
The past decade working on data, customer service, and computer science in the civil service I've got to:
- Work with the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy and the Interagency Committee on Standards Policy
- Transition a secretariat for our action plan for open gov under the Open Government Partnership to be under our Office of Governmentwide Policy
- Support a Digital Analytics Program in our Data & Analytics Portfolio
Naming things is hard. Renaming them is too
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A wise Karl once taught me,
"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and namespace collision"
— a clever quippet from a wise Phil that's been seen as a bit of a truism — and maybe also some key concepts for contemporary malicious spoophishing.
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a random aside that I'm only sharing because this audience might appreciate... when I sent this that annoying over-analysis anxiety set in when I realized the "text fragment" URL spec used for the .gov link I shared (because those headings don't have anchor ids) is not universally supported in all browsers:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Text_fragments#browser_compatibility
but then I saw the most relevant bug tracker for this has been active within the last 24 hours and I chilled out :)
Text fragments allow linking directly to a specific portion of text in a web document, without requiring the author to annotate it with an ID, using particular syntax in the URL fragment. Supporting browsers are free to choose how to draw attention to the linked text, e.g. with a color highlight and/or scrolling to the content on the page. This is useful because it allows web content authors to deep-link to other content they don't control, without relying on the presence of IDs to make that possible. Building on top of that, it could be used to generate more effective content-sharing links for users to pass to one another.
@digiphile @carl @Lampa my apologies for the radio silence here. I'm not sure how much there is to share publicly that hasn't already been shared, but for what it's worth...
It seems like this could be an exciting time for the open standards of the social media era as they not only mature and gain wider adoption, but also as we see both Silicon Valley and government* do more to explore their place in the Fediverse.
Thanks for sharing this @tomcoates
I'm really excited to see how this develops and may be able to report back from a similar convening tomorrow.
cc: @krusynth
@krusynth Thanks for reminding me! Thievery Corporation and Morcheeba were the first live shows I saw in DC (before I lived here) and it's been forever stitched into my brain as the fabric a more complete district experience. A recent taxi driver was playing them, I said turn it up! he said he'd never heard them, but their bassist was his last passenger :)
I also just went down a fun rabbit hole of DC music/archivist nerdery with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvqtY_7Q7hI&t=1s
New year, same question: why is the tech press whiffing the app store story of the decade?
Under regulatory pressure, mobile OSes are opening up and adding features that will allow PWAs to disrupt app stores ... Yet with shockingly few exceptions, coverage accepts that the solution to crummy, extractive native app stores will be other native app stores. ... The press fails to mention the web as a sustitute for native apps, and fail to inform readers of its disruptive potential. Why?
Tom Coates
Alex Russell