Iβm a strong believer in Peter Norvigβs maxim that All code is liability. Every line of code takes work to write, maintain, and eventually replace. Every line can have a bug, a security hole, or worse. Itβs easy to think our job is to write code, but in practice, I believe our mandate is to create results. Code is our usual tool, but if we can get the same results with less code, or even none, so much the better.
Reflecting on the vagaries of social media, Chris Aldrich calls for a renaissance of humanism:
Letβs band together to create better people-centric, ethical solutions.
Douglas Rushkoff reflects on the change to power and authority over timeL
In the renaissance, the way the will of the elite was inflicted on the people was through law. Today, the way the will is inflicted on the people is through code. (60 mins
It is often stated that code is the new literacy of the 21st century. One of the problems with this is that code and is not the same as literature. As Peter Seibel describes:
Code is not literature. We donβt read code, we decode it. We examine it. A piece of code is not literature; it is a specimenSource
It is interesting to considering this in lieu of Doug Belshaw’s eight elements of digital literacies.
Jacky Alcine reposted this article on v2.jacky.wtf.