One remote founder's struggle with isolation, depression, & anxiety. And what remote companies can do to address the mental health challenges of a remote workforce.

Anatomy of an AI System - The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources. By Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler (2018)

This is my bag of tricks — loose notes, design patterns, rules-of-thumb, tools, cheatsheets, gimmicks, leverage points, descriptions of systems, key questions, risks, and unknowns.

I worshipped militaristic Mormon science-fiction writer Orson Scott Card -- until we met.

Engineers at Monograph talk about their culture, key values, current team members, open jobs, and what it is like working at Monograph.

Crippled ports. Paralyzed corporations. Frozen government agencies. How a single piece of code crashed the world.

Populism, pointless work and panicked youth: an interview with David Graeber of LSE

Is the Chinese government behind one of the boldest art-crime waves in history?

It’s easy to learn when you’re obsessed. Chances are, if you’re reading this, you’re really good at something. It was a passion — a calling — that ta

“I want those tapes to be used against him [Trump], but it might be unfair.”

If you wear women's clothes, you already know this. But now we've got the data to show it.

Learn all about the properties available in CSS Grid Layout through simple visual examples.

Mapping the walkable surfaces on the island of The Witness as a step toward bulletproofing the player movement code.

By Brad Frost and Dan Mall. More info at http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/designer-developer-workflow and http://danmall.me/articles/designer-developer-workflow/.

When my brother was twelve, I found six mice nailed to the wall of the abandoned tree house in the woods near our apartment. He spent a lot of time there. It se

Tracing the long lineage of software that brought us Vim.

I’m James Bridle. I’m a writer and artist concerned with technology and culture. I usually write on my own blog, but frankly I don’t want…

One of the biggest voices in indie gaming talks about broader cultural inclusivity - MCV/DEVELOP

Practical guide

Practicing minimalism with the lofty goal of total ephemeralization to build coherent, stable, and operable stacks.

What we talk about when we talk about what we talk about when we talk about web performance.

Jerome Jacobson and his network of mobsters, psychics, strip-club owners, and drug traffickers won almost every prize for 12 years, until the FBI launched Operation ‘Final Answer.’

My home computer in 1998 had a 56K modem connected to our telephone line; we were allowed a maximum of thirty minutes of computer usage a day, because my parents — quite reasonably — did not want to have their telephone shut off for an evening at a time. I remember webpages loading slowly: ten […]

Trigger warning: please note that this is a blog post about online abuse, and includes screen caps of tweets sent to me. Graphic threats and abusive, hateful language toward women appear therein.   A few weeks ago, I gave a keynote talk at World Domination Summit in Portland. The thesis: while we regard online misogyny and abuse…

Magnets: How Do They Work?

The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective is a network of tech-fueled anarchists taking on Big Pharma with DIY medicines.

I've always had trouble reading social cues, but in the strip club, where rules and roles are crystal clear, I finally learned to connect.

Our floodlit society has made sleep deprivation a lifestyle. But we know more than ever about how we rest—and how it keeps us healthy.