Going off road, leaving your smartphone, your Facebook and Instagram, your connected home behind:
You want to keep facebook? Here’s a plugin for Firefox that limits their tracking of you out in the wild wild web:
Another perspective of group chats, eg. Slack and others:
Until next time, some final words from artist Andrea Zittel:
This weeks reading #3 (It’s too complex, and perhaps too stimulating. But you’ll still make mistakes.)
”All this work had been put into this thing, but it missed the fundamental problems that people faced. And the biggest one that I took away from it was that basically people are playing computer inside their head.” Programmers were like chess players trying to play with a blindfold on — so much of their mental energy is spent just trying to picture where the pieces are that there’s hardly any left over to think about the game itself.”
Creating software is, still today, a struggle. Converting ambiguous statements about problems into precise unambiguous instructions for a computer to solve it. Talk to any experienced programmer and they’ll tell you to focus on the problem at hand, not the code. But what if the level of complexity is so high that humans are unable to comprehend it? Self-driving cars, aviation systems, Amazon Web Services, power grid software etc. How can we trust them? In this article you’ll get to know some of the people and programming languages in this field. Because humans are not to be trusted with this level of complexity.
https://medium.com/the-atlantic/the-coming-software-apocalypse-4ffb43f3b288
You’re off to a flying start as a software developer. These are some of the hard earned lessons that might be worth contemplating.
https://medium.com/the-atlantic/the-coming-software-apocalypse-4ffb43f3b288
And I’ll send you off with this brilliant little gem: