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My Heroku values

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My Heroku values. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

The Rotting Internet Is a Collective Hallucination - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/the-internet-is-a-collective-hallucination/619320/
Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone.

The Upcoming Remote Work Company Culture War - Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

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Anyway, Anderson is not the first, nor will she be remotely the last, person to bemoan the fact that people don’t want to go back to the office, and in my tiny little walnut brain I am imagining that we’re about to see, as vaccinations climb and people return to normal, a culture war between those that believe workers should be in the office and those who believe that there should be a “hybrid approach,” by which they most likely mean you get a few days a week at home. It’ll start by...

How Snobbery Helped Take The Spice Out Of European Cooking : The Salt : NPR

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The New Aesthetic (+10) | booktwo.org

booktwo.org/notebook/the-new-aesthetic-10/

🚨 What really happened at Basecamp - Platformer

platformer.news/p/-what-really-happened-at-basecamp
How a list of "funny" customer names triggered an internal reckoning

White women are the most dangerous upholders of white supremacy in Silicon Valley, and holding them accountable could cost you your career, your community, and your sanity. | by Britt Caldwell | Apr, 2021 | Medium

brittwcaldwell.medium.com/white-women-are-the-most-dangerous-upholders-of-white-supremacy-in-silicon-valley-and-holding-ee62b2ec1bc1

Questions to ask in a job interview that reveal company culture

fastcompany.com/90622890/10-questions-to-ask-in-a-job-interview-that-will-really-expose-a-companys-culture

The Road to Terfdom – Lux Magazine

lux-magazine.com/article/the-road-to-terfdom/

Those pesky pull request reviews – Jessitron

jessitron.com/2021/03/27/those-pesky-pull-request-reviews/
No one wants to review pull requests. This is a sign of a deeper problem than "people aren't following the process"

What does sponsorship look like? | Lara Hogan

larahogan.me/blog/what-sponsorship-looks-like/
Illustration by Catt Small

Bitcoin and other PoW coins are an ESG nightmare | Great Wall of Numbers

ofnumbers.com/2021/02/14/bitcoin-and-other-pow-coins-are-an-esg-nightmare/

The internet didn’t kill counterculture—you just won’t find it on Instagram

documentjournal.com/2021/01/the-internet-didnt-kill-counterculture-you-just-wont-find-it-on-instagram/
Collectible but Not Consumeristic

The Zoom Gaze — Real Life

reallifemag.com/the-zoom-gaze/
Video conferencing offers an illusory sense of unilateral control over conversations

Small tech

scattered-thoughts.net/writing/small-tech/

The Spell Checkers Agenda

kottke.org/20/10/the-spell-checkers-agenda

The coming war on the hidden algorithms that trap people in poverty | MIT Technology Review

technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013068/algorithms-create-a-poverty-trap-lawyers-fight-back/
A growing group of lawyers are uncovering, navigating, and fighting the automated systems that deny the poor from housing, jobs, and basic services.

The 100 Most Influential Sequences in Animation History

vulture.com/article/most-influential-best-scenes-animation-history.html
From Bugs Bunny to Spike Spiegel to Miles Morales, the 128-year history of a boundless art form that continues to draw us all in.

Social Cooling - Big Data's unintended side effect

socialcooling.com/
Social Cooling: is big data making us more well behaved.. but less human?

A Better Code Review | Gilad Peleg

giladpeleg.com/blog/better-code-review/
"Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson." T.S. Eliot Contributing to a project is not an easy task, especially if you're new to the project, new to…