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Ok, that's it. I'm officially off GitHub. First I moved all of my private repos to my Synology, which was extremely easy to do. I did that around a week or so ago and it's be working great.

Then I had to start sorting and moving all my public repos…

Link: 'The Biggest Student Data Privacy Disaster in History': Canvas Hack Shows the Danger of Centralized EdTech, by Jason Koebler at 404 Media

I started in edtech. When I graduated with my Computer Science degree, I returned to the university to work at the Media and Learning Technology Service. There,…

This has an excellent narrative structure, some beautiful prose, and I just didn't enjoy it.

The story is Sliding Doors meets Same Time Next Year mixed with a distressing amount of domestic violence.

A mother faces a difficult choice. Should she name her child after her abusive and violent husband?…

A couple of weeks ago Ben was kind enough to send me a 3-pack of Mildliner Mix pens — two-colour highlighters made by Zebra. This led me down a path of looking for the second set called "Cool" but the price of shipping meant I would have been paying ~£5…

For me, looking back through this website’s version history is like watching the final scenes of Interstellar. Years fly by; visuals of who we were two, three years ago. Three years feels so close but then you see this page and: no, it just can’t be! That page…

Most Fridays, I share a handful of pieces that caught my eye at the intersection of technology, media, and society.

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An Invitation to Build the Civic Information Economy

This feels like a vital exploration to me:

“What…

Metal Gear Solid is a very cool franchise, that is apparently a bit of a mess when it comes to its story and the connection between each game and all of that.

I am not as attached on it as I am on Resident Evil. I did not spend countless…

Link: An Invitation to Build the Civic Information Economy, by Lillian Ruiz, Simon Galperin, and Jennifer Brandel at News Futures

This feels like a vital exploration to me:

“What does it take to fund civic information? We often focus on “more money,” but we limit the field’s potential by ignoring…