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. …

I set up a new Mastodon account @dfj@hachyderm.io since there’s a lot of tech folks over there, including a few coworkers.

I’m up to 4 accounts: I’ve long held @dfj@toot.cafe but use it seldomly. This blog publishes @dfj@doug.pub, I even tried hosting my own instance for a while

After all these years, I continue to love Adagio for TRON - Remixed by Teddybears on the TRON: Legacy Reconfigured album. I find it hard to find more electronic music with this sort of sound (RIP Daft Punk), but maybe I’m not looking in the right places?

Trying out a few Advent of Code problems in Kotlin this year.

I really enjoyed My secret life as an 11-year-old BBS sysop on Ars Technica.

I’m just young enough that I missed this era of computing, but I have a lot of nostalgia for the online technologies that came just after this: Prodigy, AOL, and web message boards.

Some photos from tonight’s dog walk.

Florida swampland, taken while visiting over Thanksgiving.

Orion flying beyond the Moon

I decided to take a break from Twitter. In short, the doom-scrolling became too much for me. I don’t know if I’ll ever be back. Rather than seek an alternative in Mastodon, I’m going to see if I can avoid re-creating another firehose of content for me. I like the balance of my slower timeline here on Micro.blog with its Mastodon/ActivityPub support, which I’ll be using to follow sparingly (you can certainly follow my posts here @dfj@doug.pub on Mastodon).

Additionally, I’m going to see if I can get my RSS feeds into a managable place. I’m excited about the idea of returning to more decetralized feeds through standard Web technologies. I’m hoping the Twitter exodus helps create a new demand for products and tools in this space.

This [post by @jayeless](https://www.jayeless.net/2022/11/on-mastodon-and-algorithms.html) was definitely inspirational to my approach going forward.

@dave has also been exploring this space in some interesting ways.

I’m sure I’ll miss Twitter at first, but in the long run, I think this will be good for me and good for the Web.

ATL transportation nexus