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I watched an interesting episode of the Waveform podcast last night that gives a look into ICANN, DNS, and a key signing ceremony. I learned that the DNSSEC key signing ceremonies are posted in full to youtube.

Been home for a few days, but wishing I was back on the beach.

Michael Tsai on Southwest Airlines and Technical Debt This is a really interesting take on how technical debt directly contributed to Southwest’s terrible week. From Zeynep Tufekci’s article on the NYT: It’s been an open secret within Southwest for some time, and a shameful one, that … read more

Currently reading: The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson 📚

Went to the far end of La Chiva beach today.

Hope to see this sentiment more in 2023!

Bring back personal blogging - The Verge

Finished reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 📚

Loved this book! Unique in a number of ways, especially as tale about video game development.

Malecón Esperanza, Vieques

🫡 2022

I’ve heard most of these stories in isolation, but haven’t read anything that summarizes the downfall of the whole industry like this. I do wonder where things go from here. I hope there’s a silver lining. I really like technology and the web. Maybe we can find a way to build exciting, useful things while the tech giants crumble around us.

The End of the Silicon Valley Myth - The Atlantic

Isabel Segunda, Vieques, PR

La Chiva, Vieques, PR

Daring Fireball: Kansas Governor Imposes TikTok Ban on State-Issued Devices

There’s two things here for me:

1. Why so much fear around TikTok specifically? In theory their privacy risks are the same with any app or social network. I don’t think they are unique in this regard.
2. I think this is another reason we should really strive to move social networking to open and decentralized protocols and solve the problems inherit to this model. The risks of centralized aggregators is too great.

Twitter rival Mastodon rejects funding to preserve nonprofit status

Good for you Mastodon!

Made braciole this Christmas Eve. Came out great!

Not so Hotlanta

Visiting Savannah for a few nights.

Why Car Centric Cities are a Great Idea via Kottke:

I was skeptical but if you listen carefully, there are some really solid ideas in this video on why designing cities around lots of cars makes sense.

Spotted this post by @steve@s.yelvington.com about how the Web wins over something proprietary:

Bit of online history:

Ziff-Davis was a publisher of magazines, mostly about photography, then computers when they came along. They ran some groups on CompuServe and other pre-Internet online services.

Recognizing that online experiences would be the Next Big Thing, and also having learned that the existing options like Prodigy sucked, Z-D embarked on a huge project to invent something new. …