Reading List
- The right way to turn off your old APIs
All things come to an end, even HTTP APIs. However great your API may be today, one day you'll want to release a completely new version, an improved but incompatible endpoint, a new parameter that solves the same problem better, or to shut down your API entirely. Your current API will not be live forever.
- Big Tech Censorship
Ed
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24 Jan 2021
What Big Tech is doing in deplatforming prominent right-wing figures, based on prodding from certain NGOs and politicians, is in fact censorship, even if Parler Chief Policy Officer Amy Peikoff calls it “censorship by proxy”.
- My setup for using Twitter without hating it
How to get only the good parts of this infamous social network
- Moral basis for regulating social platforms
solus.life
Many people seem to be stuck between two opposing thoughts: 1. It feels wrong that social platforms have the power to arbitrary filter content. 2. They are private companies, so they have the right to do as they please. How do we reconcile those ideas?
- Product idea: verifiable digital document sharing
Jamie Lord
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23 Jan 2021
Some employers, utility companies, banks or government departments still require you to be in possession of physical documents - it’s now 2021 and this is stupid.
- Technological stagnation: Why I came around
I was skeptical at first, but have come to believe the stagnation hypothesis. Here’s why.