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Here's the latest of my #projects: https://ooh.directory , a collection of hundreds of blogs.

I was tired of hearing "no body blogs any more" and wanted to show that there are so. many. blogs!

I have loads more blogs and features to add yet, and I hope you find something interesting.

ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

A collection of 2,392 blogs about every topic

@johnlynch what gets me about e.g. Google Glass is that the pioneer of wearable computers was strongly anti-ad: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3265

(Also, great hack!)

Mediated Reality: University of Toronto RWM Project | Linux Journal

@edward I stand by this direction I gave from the first time I lead a project: https://tinyrobots.thoughtbot.com/post/9926305424/its-so-obvious-now
It's so obvious, now!

Mike B.: Some teams do this thing where they push branches and then they have to get approval from others before merging. Mike B.: Let's not do that, and instead let's write awesome code. Mike B.: And...

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@xor @rosstrudeau that was a fun theme!

My contributions to the Faker Ruby library came in handy for 27A.

@schlink the thing I keep coming back to is that I know what features to put into my open source projects because I use them.

@postmodern I'm so tired of pointing out that the emperor has no clothes.

I think that's where these recent technologies differ from those in the past: everyday people are being scammed and fooled by them. It was fine when it was nerds pitching to other well-informed nerds, but it's a whole new game when lay people spend their life savings on NFTs.

And this puts us in the moral position of trying to stop it. And it's so tiring.

@mike given how many of us there are... I can only hope that every Mark, Ike, and Mick are having these complaints too.
@mike I know, right?!
Thorsten Ball - How can you not be romantic about programming?