A Way Forward with Communal Computing
Do’s and Don'ts when Designing for the Community
Emerging Tech
Emerging technology ideas and resources.
A quick reminder on HTTPS everywhere
HTTPS "everywhere" means everywhere—not just the login page, or the page where you accept donations. Everything.
Don’t let your ethical judgement go to sleep
We need to build organizations that are self-critical and avoid corporate self-deception.
Steering around blockchain hype
When we finally find the best use cases for blockchains, they may look like nothing we would have expected.
7 questions to ask before you launch an enterprise blockchain project
Successful projects will think seriously about what blockchains mean, and how to use them effectively.
Blockchain applications
Don’t pigeonhole blockchain as a technology that’s primarily useful for finance.
What is a blockchain?
Unpacking the complexity of blockchain, term by term.
From USENET to Facebook: The second time as farce
Demanding and building a social network that serves us and enables free speech, rather than serving a business metric that amplifies noise, is the way to end the farce.
Do no harm
In the software world, we’re often ignorant of the harms we do because we don’t understand what we’re working with.
Why I won’t whitelist your site
Publishers need to take responsibility for code they run on my systems.
Who, me? They warned you about me?
Thoughts on "We are the people they warned you about."
Ethics at scale
Scale changes the problems of privacy, security, and honesty in fundamental ways.
What if we build the internet we always wanted?
It's time to stop cursing the network we have and build the network we want.
Defensive computing
The tools of defensive computing, whether they involve mascara and face paint or random autonomous web browsing, belong to the harsh reality we've built.
How I detect fake news
How I traced the falsity of one internet meme, and what that teaches us about how an algorithm might do it.
Learning from AlphaGo
If there's anything humans should learn from AlphaGo, it's that our survival depends on constantly looking at the data.
The artist in the age of online media
A lot of young artists are building brand equity and audience, but fame doesn't equal money and you can't eat brand equity.
P-values not quite considered harmful
The crisis of reproducibility is an opportunity to get better at doing science.
Do one thing…
I don't want barely distinguishable tools that are mediocre at everything; I want tools that do one thing and do it well.
Understanding the blockchain
We must be prepared for the blockchain’s promise to become a new development environment.
The computing of distrust
A look at what lies ahead in the disenchanted age of postmodern computing.