• Instructions Must Not Have Links

    calendar May 24, 2025 · 4 min read · Technology

    IT documentation has a disease: in-text links. The disease-inducing thinking is quite clear: someone writing the documentation writes 'install the drivers for your graphics card', and then provides a link to how to install graphics cards because they saw others do that sort of thing. But once you accept the general …


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  • Perfidious Oracle

    calendar Feb 2, 2025 · 1 min read · Technology Politics
    Perfidious Oracle

    Erik Uden noted some disquieting statements by Oracle's CEO Larry Ellison, and shortly after found his Oracle account terminated. Reading the full fediverse thread doesn't paint a better picture. I can't imagine doing business with a company that deletes a database account, then refuses to elaborate on what has …


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  • Musings on the Next Search Engine

    calendar Jul 19, 2024 · 3 min read · Politics Technology

    Google's began by indexing massive portions of the internet, and rating sites according to which sites had the most links going towards them. You might state the general goal like this: We will write a program to rank the quality of writing on websites. This worked well for a while, but people with businesses saw how …


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