A major part of anarchy and socialism is the concept of anti-work. An obsession with work is a colonial, patriarchal, and capitalist construct. As such, the anti-work movement--a focus on working less overall and sharing labor more equally--is an ...
When you scroll a 2D scroller on a website, the browser does a lot of work behind the scenes to keep you on track. One of the things it typically does is scroll axis-locking (aka "railing"), ignoring some minor scroll deltas in the non-main scrolling ...
The engineering team at Stripe recently described how they automated database incident recovery by modeling their global infrastructure as a graph. Using graph search algorithms together with state machines, the team computes and executes remediation ...
Last winter, I wrote about prefiguration: building the future you want within the shell of existing structures. Rather than focusing solely on tearing down systems you don't like or pointing out what's wrong with how things are, prefiguration aims to ...