Not peer reviewed as far as I can tell. That said if confirmed by other studies this feels like an important paper. The language flattening might be real and this will have lasting cultural impacts.
Be warned! This is a long list.
Yes, we have lots of layers nowadays. But you can read them to figure out when something doesn't work like you expect. This is one of the most important skills of the trade.
Yes there's a dip, but this piece presents compelling evidence that it's not the death of literacy we're sometimes screaming at. It is also a love letter to reading and writing.
Clearly the author is angry and he has every right to be. By closing platforms and fighting against tinkering, the big tech companies try to kill of the power user and hacker cultures. By letting this happen we all loose as a society.
Interesting food for thought about the information ecosystem we live in. It's been distorted by the constant stream of content, so it's very hard to find the good journalism within the noise.
It feels like staring in the abyss... rather sad I'd say.
The previous piece about the disagreement with Cory Doctorow was a good one even though I didn't put it in my review. This one is more important though! It's a necessary reminder that we can't put allies on a pedestal and then scream at them making mistakes or having different opinions. We can't afford this kind of purity culture... Especially right now.
The contrast is indeed very stark. I got my own bias and fondness for heroic failures.
Feels a bit odd to go to such length to put it in numbers. And yet, it's clear that friendships in the workplace are a must. They should be fostered rather than stifled.
This is indeed an important cultural trait in the Rust community. This can bring challenge when integrating Rust code into a context with more ambiguity.
This has been documented for a long while. Of course, it's been followed by an unhealthy fascination for the "Toyota way". This kind of cargo cult of course lead you nowhere to doing things properly. And yet, now that the dust settled, there are good lessons to learn from Toyota management back then.
An odd but interesting article. When a journalist randomly discovers that his wife is the best Tetris player in the world.
Interesting research. Can it give insights on the pervasive views of the time?
Or why focusing on the practices will likely lead to cargo cult and you might never reach the real benefits. Don't mimic other organisations, think about the underlying philosophy.
Definitely this! All systems are produced in a given context. The organisation and the people producing it are what matters most to get something of quality (or not).
This would probably be a good thing indeed. We'll see of the web culture will evolve next.
If you're wondering where emoticons and emojis are coming from, this is a nice little piece about that.
Nice little article to get an idea of the culture and art behind magic tricks.
Indeed it feels like the Rust community has a cultural problem around abstractions. In a way it feels similar to the one Java developed years ago. This can bring lots of complexity and obfuscation you don't want in your project.