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publicartfund: “ art and creativity have much to offer the world outside the arts. artistic thinking is based on constant awareness of potentiality – of the idea that reality is malleable, relative, and that, through my actions, I can affect and change the world. art can touch people deeply; experience isn’t just in the head,…
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“This is one of the questions that Peter Reinhardt, CEO and co-founder of Segment, asks in a timely post, Replacing Middle Management with APIs. Services like Uber replace a layer of task management with software APIs. Customers use an app interface to enter their data into the system. Reinhardt represents this in pseudocode as: uber.drive(card,…
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behindsuchgreeneyes: Me and my mutual followers that never seem to actually talk but we like and reblog each other’s posts:
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ShAkira!
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Asking for things is hard.
adrianparsons: After being laid off, an ex-coworker asked me to write a recommendation for him on LinkedIn. I didn’t hesitate to say “yes”. A few weeks later, a friend trying to grow her career as a comedian asked me to retweet her latest joke. I didn’t hesitate to say “yes”. I was surprised when I…
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it’s a(door)able
it’s a(door)able go play “it’s a(door)able”, and then support it, too!
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prostheticknowledge: Dreeps iOS game is an RPG with minimal involvement – you set an alarm clock for when you and your character wish to awaken after sleep, and you can observe the journey of your character throughout the day: For you who don’t have time anymore to play RPG, “Alarm Playing Game” is a new…
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mostlysignssomeportents: Impossible Programs: a great lecture on some of computer science’s most important subjects Here’s a 40-minute video in which Tom Stuart gives a talk summarizing one of the chapters from him new book Understanding Computation, describing the halting state problem and how it relates to bugs, Turing machines, Turing completeness, computability, malware checking for various…
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hyperallergic: This month the Smithsonian Libraries Artists’ Books Collection launched an online platform that unifies artists’ books from across several Smithsonian collections. The site was announced last week, with a search that gathers over 600 titles. READ MORE
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booksfromthefuture: Superbold — Book about heavy fonts by Christoph Laurisch