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An essay on post-AI economics

As you may have heard, last week Google published the source code for PebbleOS. This is a big deal! Thank you again to Google for this…

And how not to fix it

A short story on bootstrapping and startups.

A friend gave me a copy of the book “Perfect Wave” by Dave Hickey. I’ve been slowly reading through each essay and highlighting parts with my red pencil. When I got to the chapter “Cool on Cool”, this passage stood out. I want to write it down and share it: there was this ...

De korte versie: overdracht van persoonsgegevens naar Amerikaanse aanbieders, ook op servers in de EU, was juridisch al lang omstreden, omdat de US overheid zichzelf vrijwel onbeperkte rechten gunt om in die data te grasduinen. Desondanks zijn er drie pogingen gewaagd om deze overdracht te legaliseren. De eerste twee pogingen zijn door Europese rechters ongeldig verklaard. De nieuwste poging, de Transatlantic Data Privacy Framework (TDPF) leunt zwaar op een Amerikaanse toezichthouder genaamd Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB).

On what matters — and taking time away as a founder.

Update: This event is now passed, and it went great!

I’m incredibly excited to be speaking at the upcoming TasICT event in Hobart, alongside the fabulous Procreate, Handbuilt Creative, and Screen Tasmania. I’ll be representing Secret Lab and Yarn Spinner, and no doubt Tas Game Makers, our Tasmanian Games Incubator, and other things will get a look in as well.

If you’re in Hobart, get along to the event to show your suport for the connection between Tasmania’s technology industry and creative technology industry!

Adults are significantly less likely to be married or to live with a partner than they used to be.

On the mistakes new founders make when it comes to self-promotion online.

Code forces humans to be precise. That’s good. Computers need precision. But it also forces humans to think like machines. For decades we tried to fix this by making programming more human-friendly. Higher-level languages. Visual interfaces. Each step helped, but we were st...

Jeremy Keith, Chris Coyier, and others (see Jeremy’s post) have written about the idea of “pace layers” and now I’m going to take a stab at applying it to user interface primitives. First, let’s start with a line of reasoning: Common user interface controls — such as checkb...

In the beautiful Dutch booklet Over en Uit: Driekwart Eeuw Radiocommunicatie 1900 - 1975 (‘Over and out: 75 years of radio communications’), we read: 1916: As a result of British cable censorship, free communication between the Dutch government and the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies was no longer feasible. (Dutch version of this post is here) The Netherlands was dependent on foreign countries for communication, which had already caused problems earlier:

In het mooie boekje Over en Uit: driekwart eeuw radiocommunicatie 1900 - 1975 lezen we: 1916: Als gevolg van de Engelse kabelcensuur is een vrije berichtenwisseling tussen de Nederlandse regering en de Gouverneur-Generaal van N.O.-Indië niet goed meer mogelijk. Nederland was afhankelijk van het buitenland voor communicatie, wat ook al eerder voor problemen had gezorgd: 1899: Tijdens de Tweede Boerenoorlog van 1899-1902 tussen Engeland en de Zuid-Afrikaanse republieken Oranje Vrijstaat en Transvaal worden telegrammen uit Nederland (…) door Engelse ambtenaren gecensureerd.

A guide

On the impacts of technology and culture in startups and small business.

On the risks of vendor lock-in and how to escape it.

We just had AGM for Tasmanian Game Makers, Inc. (TasGM), and for the third year in a row I was pleasantly surprised to be elected President. I’m really looking forward to working with the new committee to continue pushing the video game industry in Tasmania along, get the Tasmanian Games Incubator going as part of TasGM, and helping Screen Tasmania run Level Up.

With thanks to our outgoing board member, and our fantastic community and financial members.