I have 2 JavaScript widgets to inject TwinPages/SisterSites and VisibleBacklinks into my WikiFlux pages from my WikiGraph server. (more)

Suddenly I've noticed WikiGraph embeds not working on Firefox (android). Another stop on the WikiGraph JavaScript Widgets Vs Browser Security saga. (more)

TwinPages is delivered through a JavaScript widget, so once I add a site/space to my SisterSites db, it should be able to display TwinPages fine. (more)

Normally/historically (more)

classic Andy Grove book - Keith Bolte may have written chunks of it (more)

Greg Mankiw has an interesting Economic Stimulus proposal. Cut the Payroll Tax, let governors take that money for 2 years to close State/local budget gaps, compensate with scheduled Gas Tax. (more)

Richard Hofstadter: The Paranoid Style in American Politics. ...is a style of mind that is far from new and that is not necessarily right-wing. I call it the paranoid style simply because no other word adequately evokes the sense of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy that I have in mind. In using the expression “paranoid style” I am not speaking in a clinical sense, but borrowing a clinical term for other purposes (more)

A-List, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity, FamousForBeingFamous - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famous_for_being_famous (more)

customer service channel

Venkatesh Rao: Elderblog Sutra: 13. ...rebuilding of the foundations on something other than PHP and MySQL, but I suspect it will eventually happen when the hedge value of a non-platform alt-stack, with capacity for genuine commercial independence, becomes high enough. (more)

W David Marx: Why haven’t internet creators become superstars? We’re a decade into online video emerging as the most powerful and popular form of mass media, and yet almost none of its stars have truly “crossed over” into mainstream success (more)

Blake Watson: MagnoliaJS 2023 talk: The joys of home-cooked apps.What is a home-cooked app? It’s the kind of app that you make for yourself, to solve your own problem or for your own entertainment. I didn’t invent the term, home-cooked app. A couple of years ago I read an article by Robin Sloan. (2020-02-28-SloanAnAppCanBeAHomecookedMeal, indie) (more)

Watch This Guy Work, and You’ll Finally Understand the TikTok Era. Ursus Magana put off eating his last brisket taco to whip up a blueprint for how he would guide me to stardom. It started with me ditching journalism to focus on churning out daily TikToks in which I’d offer tips about storytelling. (more)

Cristobal Sciutto: Folk (Browser) Interfaces. For the past couple of years I've found myself returning to vanilla Javascript to build a variety of media interfaces. Ignoring the networked potential of the internet, I've felt liberated to simply point at local files and enjoy the multi-media power of the web browser as rendering engine. (more)

Robin Sloan: Week 47, the Jaws of the commons. For several years, I have been a devoted user of an app called Tapstack. (more)

John Oliver on management consulting firms: ‘They shouldn’t get to be invisible’. John Oliver tore into management consulting firms on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, and in particular the track record of McKinsey. (more)

Robin Sloan: on Moonbound! The title of my new novel, coming in June 2024 from MCD×FSG, is: Moonbound: The Last Book of the Anth (more)

Robin Sloan: An app can be a home-cooked meal. I made a messaging app for, and with, my family. It is ruth­lessly simple; we love it; no one else will ever use it. 2019-11-17-SloanWeek47TheJawsOfTheCommons (more)

How Twitter Users Can Generate Better Ideas (idea generation). The more diverse a person’s social network, the more likely that person is to be innovative. (more)

Tyler Cowen: Marc Andreessen on Learning to Love the Humanities (Ep. 152). Without understanding the deep patterns of human behavior, how can you know what to build, or who should build it, or how? For Marc, that means reading deeply in the humanities (more)