👓 Logs populi or, Thanks, Netflix! | Vicki Boykis

Read Logs populi, or thanks, Netflix! by Vicki Boykis (veekaybee.github.io)
Tech is already cynical about data collection, but the public is just starting to understand its implications.

👓 Love for Math | Stephanie Hurlburt

Read Love for Math by Stephanie Hurlburt (Stephanie Hurlburt)
I'll never forget my dad taking me to Stanford to look at the math proofs the PhD students there had published. The logic puzzles he'd tell me every night. He was an astrophysicist, and would often to take me to his lab to check out what they were working on. I participated in mathematics competitio...

👓 Statistics, we have a problem. | Kristian Lum – Medium

Read Statistics, we have a problem. by Kristian Lum (Kristian Lum – Medium)
Recently, while browsing Twitter, I saw a few machine learning researchers post about an incident at one of their big conferences (NIPS)…
Ugh…

👓 Announcing PressForward 5.0! | PressForward

Read Announcing PressForward 5.0! by Laura Crossley and Amanda Regan (PressForward)

The PressForward team is happy to announce the release of PressForward 5.0, which features a new statistics API that will provide specialized altmetrics data associated with the PressForward editorial workflow. This latest release also includes an opt-in feature for gathering diagnostics and a number of bug fixes and performance enhancements.

👓 We messed up. We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change. | The Patreon Blog

Read We messed up. We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change. (Patreon)
We’ve heard you loud and clear. We’re not going to rollout the changes to our payments system that we announced last week. We still have to fix the problems that those changes addressed, but we’re going to fix them in a different way, and we’re going to work with you to come up with the specifics, as we should have done the first time around. Many of you lost patrons, and you lost income. No apology will make up for that, but nevertheless, I’m sorry.

It is our core belief that you should own the relationships with your fans. These are your businesses, and they are your fans.

I almost want to continue reading this as: “Yet, you’re all still stuck on our silo and we intend to keep taking a percentage for keeping you in business…”

If they were really all-in on helping the way they’re signaling here, they would be building it in a decentralized way that allows creators to take their patrons with them to another platform. They would also be expanding on features, which they don’t seem to be doing much of. I get the need to watch the bottom line and work on scaling, but they should also continue innovating and experimenting, particularly for the smaller fish who could become bigger fish.

Checkin Wurstküche

Checked into Wurstküche
Impromptu Indieweb meetup — with Aaron Parecki, Jonathan LaCour, and Micah

Wurstküche
A case full of sausages
A case full of sausages
The standard brat with sauerkraut and sweet peppers
The standard brat with sauerkraut and sweet peppers
A yellow orangish beer
Gouden Carolus tripel 9% ABV 250 ml
Clockwise from left: Chris Aldrich, Jonathan LaCour, Micah, and Aaron Parecki. (Photo courtesy of Aaron Parecki.)
Clockwise from left: Chris Aldrich, Jonathan LaCour, Micah, and Aaron Parecki. (Photo courtesy of Aaron Parecki.)

Reply to Owning my Reading and 100 Days of Reading Chapters by Eddie Hinkle

Replied to Owning my Reading and 100 Days of Reading Chapters by Eddie Hinkle (eddiehinkle.com)
One of my goals in 2018 is to own my reading data rather than using Goodreads for all of that information. This will allow me to track information the way I want rather than have to do it like Goodreads wants me to.
Welcome to the club. It seems like there’s a growing interest in owning read posts lately. Doing a 100 day experiment seems like a brilliant way to self-dogfood it while simultaneously getting more material read. I may have to steal the idea!

👓 Owning my Reading and 100 Days of Reading Chapters | Eddie Hinckle

Read Owning my Reading and 100 Days of Reading Chapters by Eddie HinkleEddie Hinkle (eddiehinkle.com)
One of my goals in 2018 is to own my reading data rather than using Goodreads for all of that information. This will allow me to track information the way I want rather than have to do it like Goodreads wants me to. My eventual goal is to have something like what Xavier made, but for now I’m going...
Reading even a chapter a day can be a useful and powerful thing. I ought to be doing this as a near term goal instead of just trying to generally always “read more.”

🎵 Steve Winwood – While You See a Chance

Listened to While You See a Chance by Steve Winwood from Arc of a Diver (Island, February 1981)
Written by Winwood and Will Jennings. It was released on his album Arc of a Diver and peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1981 and number 68 on the Billboard Top 100 for 1981.
https://open.spotify.com/track/7k6ngKq1oDiHiWUGed7ZRM

❤️ IndieWebCamp Austin wrap-up by Manton Reece

Liked IndieWebCamp Austin wrap-up by Manton Reece (manton.org)
Over the weekend we hosted the first IndieWebCamp in Austin. I’m really happy with the way the event came together. I learned a lot in helping plan it, made a few mistakes that we can improve next time, but overall came away as inspired as ever to keep improving Micro.blog so that it’s a standout platform of the IndieWeb movement. There’s nothing like meeting in person with other members of the community. I know this from attending Apple developer conferences, but the weekend in Austin only underscored that I should be more active in the larger web community as well.