Just finished the second season of The Expanse. Not as good as the first series (which was really brilliant), but still enjoyable. The first series felt a bit more polished, and with a bit more focus on the geopolitics.
Kind: Notes
Some new items for the reading list (after just reading the Wikipedia article on The Dispossessed): Mutual Aid by Kropotkin; Post-Scarcity Anarchism by Bookchin. And The Left Hand of Darkness by Le Guin.
Reading The Causal Angel at the moment. Enjoying it, but The Quantum Thief is the best of the trilogy. Also I’ve gotten this far and still don’t really know deep known who half of the species/races/deities/characters he refers to are. Maybe I wasn’t paying enough attention?
Remote location, patchy connectivity. What to do? Why, get SICP in texinfo format and read through it in Emacs, of course!
Ah, pivot tables. We meet at last.
Made a little bit of progress on the photo posts. Mostly progress in understanding how they work, not so much actually changed in the output of my site. The BDD approach worked OK too. A long way off from a solid development process, but again a good learning experience.
Great interview with Carne Ross (‘The Accidental Anarchist’). He gives a very articulate account of his views on anarchism, which are given an interesting perspective given he was previously fully ensconced in the present power system as a British diplomat. I found very interesting the discussion around the suggestion that anarchism fosters a more loving society.
Ahhh this is going to be super helpful: https://github.com/barnabywalters/php-mf-cleaner
My images posts look a little funky, so I’m going to try and fix that – and try to do it in a test-driven way.
Last chance to make my notes from MozFest before they slip from my mind.
This was my second year attending, and it was just as great and inspiring as last time. If anything there were more talks that I was interesting in attending than last year. (Could have been the whole Decentralization track that added to that.)