gonna stream finishing up this cache ontology thing: • twitch.tv/methodandstr... • youtu.be/-hZkvqrG1Ao • and now, stream.place/doriantaylor...

i was like "hmm i can't think of a good one right now" while literally eating lao gan ma out of the (700ml) jar with a spoon

i ask myself this a lot vis-à-vis sense atlas and intertwingler, and i can say that both address otherwise (literally) un-addressable problems i encountered both as an FTE and as a consultant; as such my answer to 1) is it'll be wrong until it isn't and 2) is adjust until that happens…

this is basically the (a) purpose of senseatlas.net

TODAY'S JOB write a cache entry vocab by gluing together: • www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/ • www.w3.org/TR/HTTP-in-R...

"skip with prejudice" button when

Entire GDP built around algorithms and my music app still can't figure out that if I skip a song every single time it's served up I NEVER WANNA HEAR THAT SONG.

I can’t (can totally) believe they invented wash-trading for graphics cards

Big tech is laying off user researchers in droves, because it believes that coercing its customers is more profitable than silly things like "making good products people want to buy." But now the FAFO pendulum is coming around, with Amazon's $2.5B dark pattern settlement and #a11y lawsuits galore.

Wrote a newsletter on Friday about a pervasive risk to your software supply chain that you may not have considered, which is also something I can help with: buttondown.com/dorian/archi...

Dependencies don’t have to be malware to go toxic

i bet my humanoid enjoyed watching the jays spank the yankees (whomst she hates) 10-1 holy crap

"This is about establishing a norm—​which these days seem to be in short supply—​that conduct is on the table, and that no product or piece of infrastructure, or leader thereof, is truly irreplaceable." - @doriantaylor.com buttondown.com/dorian/archi...

it's interesting that "fan" has a similar religious connotations www.etymonline.com/word/fan#ety...

my dogshit take of the day is "enthusiast" is a really goofy word and i hate it

buttondown.com/dorian/archi... fashtech is a software supply chain issue by @doriantaylor.com

The dictators are becoming less benevolent by the day. We are in crisis.

heh thread very much rhymes with the newsletter i just sent out (buttondown.com/dorian/archi...)

if Musk and others want to run social media platforms as instruments of a particular political faction's will, they are turning them into something very different than what US tech companies worked assiduously to protect from regulatory controls

mkay folks, newsletter is away; something i have been thinking about how to articulate for a while, and current events have given me the opportunity: buttondown.com/dorian/archi...

going to be putting out a newsletter momentarily on assessing vendor relationships (or "vendor" in the case of open-source infrastructure); just doing a pass for links rn then will ship doriantaylor.com#Eq-UWfRYaOL2...

this is a very good question; why is "prompting" considered qualitatively different from "just communicating clearly"

this persists

very grateful I got to live in a time when computers were fun and cool

me rn

so the stupid usb ethernet dongle that i need because my fibre is faster than the built-in rj45 jack crashed five times

aaand i'm back: • youtu.be/NnpcKtViLbI • twitch.tv/methodandstr... • stream.place/doriantaylor...

gonna feed my stupid face then maybe get a bottle of wine and then get back on ye olde streame

okay i thiiiiiiiink this is working now??

🔴 LIVE https://stream.place/doriantaylor.com 2025-10-03 WORKING IN PUBLIC: time to map out some schlepwork

okay i'm gonna be streaming some work using senseatlas.net starting NOW • [NEW] stream.place/doriantaylor... • twitch.tv/methodandstr... • youtu.be/AEy8jfTz2O8

okay i just got @stream.place working with nginx-rtmp (and stunnel) so i can do this now; gimme a minute and i'll stream fa rillz

lol i'm gonna try streaming in triplicate later on: • twitch • tube of you • @stream.place

something i really wish @signal.org had was per-chat image preview settings, like i want it to default to off but then turn it on for certain shitposty group chats

when i was a kid this would have been a highly sought-after wall covering

tfw you're like two sentences away from finishing a newsletter

is fiction a superstimulus?

someone to hear your prayers, someone who cares

okay so there has been this muffled beeping that goes off incessantly and i just realized what it is: a clock radio in a vacant suite with a physical switch to enable the alarm, but the time hasn't been set so it goes off at midnight and stays going until whenever it finally gives up

t&t has a special on like kilogram jars of lao gan ma, and reader i almost bought one …i might go back actually

I swear I think of this every other time I open this website

one thing i have noticed about toronto is there is a day in the year that you switch from heater to ac, and a day you switch it back, and the latter is close but not here quite yet (you *may* be able to get by for a few days with the thing completely off but ymmv)

lol a nontrivial number of you got butthurt over my (intentional) use of the phrase "computer guys"

yeah pretty much any business that deals primarily with information is gonna be a quasi-natural monopoly insofar as you need to take extra steps for it to not be one, and it seems like the greater public failed to digest this idea the way that the people helming these companies did

Every massively successful business idea of the last generation has been either "how can I monopolize [thing people want]?" or "how can I become an immovable middleman in [thing people need]?" They do almost nothing useful, just try to steal & control everything.

i mean kinda? but even third-tier entrepreneurs seem to be out making stuff that's like: • dumb thing • nobody wants it • does surveillance

moreover why pay 100 user researchers when you can just ask gemini 🫠

this talk is 15 years old and amazingly prescient

so imo the saas platform is the sorta protean middleman eben moglen had a great rant like 15 years ago about "php doo-dads" youtu.be/QOEMv0S8AcA