Category: Encounter
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Encounter (again): This Person Does Not Exist
With the flood of AI generated imagery, can we still distinguish what is real and what is “fake”? Is it really fake if it was generated by an algorithm? This website shows a new face every time it is loaded, and that person does not actually exist. It’s using StyleGAN2 and was created in 2019,…
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Normal Accident
The term “Normal accident” really caught my attention – how can an accident be normal? Are complex software systems, especially ones with technical debt and many knowledge transfers, destined to have (catastrophic) failures? Find below some quotes from the related Wikipedia articles (emphasis mine) and the reference. —- A system accident (or normal accident) is an “unanticipated interaction…
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datasette (exploring and publishing data)
An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data Datasette is a tool for exploring and publishing data. It helps people take data of any shape or size and publish that as an interactive, explorable website and accompanying API.
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dynamicland.org
I’ve seen this before, and find it truly inspiring and innovative, so I wanted to log it here. “A communal computer.”
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ArchiveBox: Open-source self-hosted web archiving.
https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox ArchiveBox is a powerful, self-hosted internet archiving solution to collect, save, and view sites you want to preserve offline. You can set it up as a command-line tool, web app, and desktop app (alpha), on Linux, macOS, and Windows. You can feed it URLs one at a time, or schedule regular imports from browser…
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How Technology Architects make decisions
Great consideration of necessity for documenting technology decision making. Also, difficulties of culture and mentality changes. … Compensatory. This type of decision considers every alternative, analysing all criteria in low-level detail. Criteria with different scores can compensate for each other, hence the name. There are two types here: Compensatory Equal Weight – criteria are scored and…
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ribosome (A simple generic code generation tool)
A simple generic code generation tool Source: ribosome
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Joplin (open source note taking app)
JoplinAn open source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation capabilities https://joplinapp.org/