Recently Dave Winer has been posting thoughts about using tags (some of us old-timers used to call them ‘topics’) in his blog. This is more than a little bit poignant because I have a history here, and Dave started it with Radio Userland and RSS.

What we lost (a paean, perhaps, to RSS)

Starting in v2.0 Flask has added async views
which allow using async and await within a view function. This allows you to use other async
APIs when building a web application with Flask. If you’re...

The problem with Flask async views and async globals

"No, I never applied for that grant. I spent two hours struggling to log in to a web portal designed by the world’s top blankfaces until I finally gave up in despair."

On blankfaces

People often try to solve problems. Often their solutions do not work. One pattern where solutions normally do not work is when they are not solutions but optimisations.

Optimizations are not solutions

The long view of economic history says we’re in the midst of a huge, unsustainable acceleration. What happens next?

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