Every open social protocol generates shared resources, but none has produced a governance framework adequate to those resources. So who fills that vacuum?

The autonomous file, once the basic unit of user agency in personal computing, was first hollowed out through proprietary formats and data internalization, then abolished entirely by cloud platforms, ...

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Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe

The Resonant Computing Manifesto speaks to humane tech, but its foundations don't address issues of power, accountability, and community. I wrote this to name what’s missing and suggest commitments th...

Live programming research gravitates towards the creation of isolated environments whose success is measured by domination: achieving adoption by displacing rather than integrating with existing tools...

This month is all about adversarial malleability and ways to do this on the web! Orion's Talk on "User Agency in Other People's Websites" Recently Orion gave a talk at J On The Beach summarized as:...

Offline data transfer using QR codes