All-you-need hiking app
Een great app for the globale hiker, Alltrails.
This day, we hiked around Fuenmayor. Find my Alltrails route here:
https://www.alltrails.com/explore/recording/afternoon-hike-at-pasada-de-los-blancos-17fafe5?u=m
Tech-inzichten door Niek de Greef. Reflecties op technologie, software development en de impact van digitale innovaties op cultuur en maatschappij.
The Lunduke Journal – makes you happy
Read The Lunduke Journal and you get tremendous joy from someone’s dedication to something – anything. In this case, Computer History.
A nice article is for example The History of The Graphical User Interface.
My computers: from Texas Instruments and Toshiba to Ideapad and MacBook Pro
I felt like making a nerdy list. The computers I have owned.
BTW also worked with DEC 10, VAX, ICL mainframe – VME, IBM mainframe – System 390 and beyond, Solaris, Aix.
TI-99/4A. Talks BASIC. Peek and Poke to move you directly into its memory.
Toshiba MSX computer HX-10AA. Failed MSX standard. Could already do a lot more with it.
Tulip PC compatible.
IBM PS2. Unimaginative bin. Dialed into the Internet with it for the first time. Via Compuserve.
IBM Thinkpad 500. My first portable, in quotes. Thing weighed like lead.
IBM Thinkpad T20, T30, T41. All very good.
Lenovo T410. Na de verkoop van de PC divisie overgestapt op Lenovo.
Lenovo T410
Apple MacBook 2009. This was my first MacBook. Only then did I notice that the user experience of a Mac is so incredibly better than that of Windows. It also boots within 10 seconds, whereas my Windows machines always take over a minute or even (much) longer.
Apple Macbook Pro 2013.
By far the best of them all. Still performs top notch. Indestructible.
Lenovo Ideapad 510. Plastic device. Poor touchpad. But then again is by far the cheapest in the list.
HP EliteBook 1040 G3. Pretty robust and comfortable.
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MacBook Pro (13-inch, M1, 2020). With touch bar. Could have left that out from me.
Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro.
Web3
Ernst-Jan Pfauth schreef een leuk stukje over Web3.
Een tijdje geleden wilde ik ook eens spelen in de wereld van NFT’s, geïnspireerd door een blog bericht van Sean Bonner. Ik creëerde een Opensea.io account en een Metamask account en maakte een paar NFT’s van mijn digitale collages. Een heel gedoe, maar wel leuk om eens te doen. Scratching the surface, zoals ze zeggen, van Web3.
Belangrijk: betaal geen “gas fee” voor “minting”. Als je wilt weten wat dat betekent, lees dan de uitstekende introductie van Sean Bonner in zijn NFT WTF artikel op zijn blog.
Zuckering
Ik kende de term Zuckering, of Privacy Zuckering nog niet maar hij is geniaal. Zuckering staat voor misleid worden tot het publiekelijk delen van meer informatie over jezelf dan je eigenlijk wil. Uiteraard naar Mark Zuckerberg, die ons “helpt” verbinden en ontdekken – je kan er niet cynisch genoeg over zijn.
Via Darkpatterns.org.
Coolish Show & Tell (video) – Recomendo TV
Mark Frauenfelder, Kevin Kelly and Claudia Dawson are experimenting with a Live video version of Recomendo.
Watch this great experiment from these sympathetic folks.
Curation curated – Winning the Internet
In a previous post, I wrote about how shared curation lets us get the best of the Internet while skipping the tech giant’s ad-driven content feed.
Here’s a great addition to that thought: a data-driven newsletter of links in other newsletters: pudding.cool/projects/newsletter/
DIY, Mistakes, and Unschooling – Mark Frauenfelder
Mark Frauenfelder is my favorite inspiring nerd (well meant) and I find him greatly inspiring. Here he talks about how making mistakes accelerates learning.
Boing Boing is a site he founded, The Magnet is a great newsletter of his, Recommendo is another great site.
Cory Doctorow’s blogging process
Writer Cory Doctorow is blogging for 20 years. Here’s his extensive process. Pfew – respect!
Austin Kleon’s 2020 list
This list of 2020-happy-things from the hugely creative Austin Kleon can keep me busy for weeks.
His newsletter is great.