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http://imissmybar.com
ZZT e la nascita di Epic: il successo sta in un piccolo particolare
Money quote: "The genius of ZZT in the early 1990s was that it wasn’t just a cute ASCII-based adventure. With every copy of ZZT downloaded, players also got an in-game world editor for free. That’s because ZZT’s text editor roots meant that Sweeney created the game engine and editor first and then built his game worlds within it."
https://www.howtogeek.com/713532/before-fortnite-there-was-zzt-meet-epics-first-game/
Money quote: "The genius of ZZT in the early 1990s was that it wasn’t just a cute ASCII-based adventure. With every copy of ZZT downloaded, players also got an in-game world editor for free. That’s because ZZT’s text editor roots meant that Sweeney created the game engine and editor first and then built his game worlds within it."
https://www.howtogeek.com/713532/before-fortnite-there-was-zzt-meet-epics-first-game/
How-To Geek
Before Fortnite, There Was ZZT: Meet Epic’s First Game
Thirty years ago—on January 15, 1991—an American college student named Tim Sweeney released ZZT, a low-key adventure game with a revolutionary element: It shipped with a free, built-in game editor. ZZT’s success spawned Epic Games, Unreal Engine, and most…
Microsoft vuole reinventare lo smart working - il mio articolo per Wired
https://www.wired.it/economia/lavoro/2021/03/02/microsoft-smart-working-lavoro-viva/
https://www.wired.it/economia/lavoro/2021/03/02/microsoft-smart-working-lavoro-viva/
WIRED.IT
Microsoft vuole reinventare lo smart working
Ad aprile debutta Viva, la piattaforma che unirà Teams e Microsoft 365 per fornire un'architettura comune di gestione del lavoro a distanza e in sede
Abb vuole mettere un cobot in tutte le pmi - il mio articolo per Wired
https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2021/03/03/abb-cobot-pmi/
https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2021/03/03/abb-cobot-pmi/
WIRED.IT
C'è un'azienda che vuol far collaborare lavoratori e robot anche nelle piccole imprese
L'azienda svedese Abb rilancia nel mercato dei robot collaborativi abbassando sempre di più il livello di complessità per renderli appetibili a tutti, non solo nell'industria manifatturiera
Trenta anni dopo, il videogioco creato da Douglas Adams dalla sua "Guida galattica per autostoppisti" è online sul sito della Bbc. Ed è uno spettacolo, in tutti i sensi
Money quote: "Safari will now only keep settings in local storage for seven days, so if you save a game and come back a week later, it'll be gone. We're working on a long term fix for this, but in the meantime we can only advise using another browser to play the game or it'll be even more frustrating than usual.
Of course, you've chosen to play this game so that sense of permanent frustrating bafflement may be something you enjoy, in which case, please carry on as you were."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG/the-game-30th-anniversary-edition
Money quote: "Safari will now only keep settings in local storage for seven days, so if you save a game and come back a week later, it'll be gone. We're working on a long term fix for this, but in the meantime we can only advise using another browser to play the game or it'll be even more frustrating than usual.
Of course, you've chosen to play this game so that sense of permanent frustrating bafflement may be something you enjoy, in which case, please carry on as you were."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG/the-game-30th-anniversary-edition
BBC
BBC Radio 4 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - The Game - 30th Anniversary Edition
The 30th anniversary edition of the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game.
50 anni fa nasceva Creeper, il primo worm della storia dell'informatica - il mio articolo di qualche giorni fa per Wired
https://www.wired.it/internet/web/2021/02/20/creeper-primo-worm-informatica-cybersecurity/
https://www.wired.it/internet/web/2021/02/20/creeper-primo-worm-informatica-cybersecurity/
WIRED.IT
50 anni fa nasceva Creeper, il primo worm della storia dell'informatica
Come non c'è rosa senza spine, così non c'è computer senza virus. Breve storia dei primi malware della storia, di chi li ha scritti e perché
L'idea alla base di questo saggio è molto semplice: vanno eliminati anche dirigenti della pubblica amministrazione, perché spesso la colpa di molte cose è loro ma non c'è una valutazione e una responsabilità simmetrica
Money quote: "I’ve talked a lot recently about bad management as a root cause of poor infrastructure, especially on Twitter. The idea, channeled through Richard Mlynarik, is that the main barrier to good US infrastructure construction, or at least one of the main barriers, is personal incompetence on behalf of decisionmakers. Those decisionmakers can be elected officials, with levels of authority ranging from governors down to individual city council members; political appointees of said officials; quasi-elected power brokers who sit on boards and are seen as representative of some local interest group; public-sector planners; or consultants, usually ones who are viewed as an extension of the public sector and may be run by retired civil servants who get a private-sector salary and a public-sector pension. In this post I’d like to zoom in on the managers more than on the politicians, not because the politicians are not culpable, but because in some cases the managers are too. Moreover, I believe removal of managers with a track record of failure is a must for progress."
https://pedestrianobservations.com/2021/02/06/the-need-to-remove-bad-management
Money quote: "I’ve talked a lot recently about bad management as a root cause of poor infrastructure, especially on Twitter. The idea, channeled through Richard Mlynarik, is that the main barrier to good US infrastructure construction, or at least one of the main barriers, is personal incompetence on behalf of decisionmakers. Those decisionmakers can be elected officials, with levels of authority ranging from governors down to individual city council members; political appointees of said officials; quasi-elected power brokers who sit on boards and are seen as representative of some local interest group; public-sector planners; or consultants, usually ones who are viewed as an extension of the public sector and may be run by retired civil servants who get a private-sector salary and a public-sector pension. In this post I’d like to zoom in on the managers more than on the politicians, not because the politicians are not culpable, but because in some cases the managers are too. Moreover, I believe removal of managers with a track record of failure is a must for progress."
https://pedestrianobservations.com/2021/02/06/the-need-to-remove-bad-management
Pedestrian Observations
The Need to Remove Bad Management
I’ve talked a lot recently about bad management as a root cause of poor infrastructure, especially on Twitter. The idea, channeled through Richard Mlynarik, is that the main barrier to good U…
Il BBC Micro, lo home computer creato dalla Bbc (!) compie 40 anni. Qui la sua storia
Money quote: "The project helped inspire a generation of coders."
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-56098808
Money quote: "The project helped inspire a generation of coders."
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-56098808
BBC News
BBC Micro: How it inspired a generation of coders
Launched in the 1980s the Computer Literacy Project helped people understand the world of computing.
Letture consigliate durante pandemia e lockdown
Money quote: "Jane Kenyon was my student. She was smart, she wrote poems, she was funny and frank in class. I knew she lived in a dormitory near my house, so one night I asked her to housesit while I attended an hour-long meeting. (In Ann Arbor, it was the year of breaking and entering.) When I came home, we went to bed. We enjoyed each other, libertine liberty as much as pleasures of the flesh. Later I asked her to dinner, which in 1970 always included breakfast. We saw each other once a week, still dating others, then twice a week, then three or four times a week, and saw no one else. One night, we spoke of marriage. Quickly we changed the subject, because I was nineteen years older and, if we married, she would be a widow so long. We married in April, 1972. We lived in Ann Arbor three years, and in 1975 left Michigan for New Hampshire. She adored this old family house."
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/double-solitude
Money quote: "Jane Kenyon was my student. She was smart, she wrote poems, she was funny and frank in class. I knew she lived in a dormitory near my house, so one night I asked her to housesit while I attended an hour-long meeting. (In Ann Arbor, it was the year of breaking and entering.) When I came home, we went to bed. We enjoyed each other, libertine liberty as much as pleasures of the flesh. Later I asked her to dinner, which in 1970 always included breakfast. We saw each other once a week, still dating others, then twice a week, then three or four times a week, and saw no one else. One night, we spoke of marriage. Quickly we changed the subject, because I was nineteen years older and, if we married, she would be a widow so long. We married in April, 1972. We lived in Ann Arbor three years, and in 1975 left Michigan for New Hampshire. She adored this old family house."
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/double-solitude
The New Yorker
Between Solitude and Loneliness
Now and then, especially at night, solitude loses its soft power and loneliness takes over. I am grateful when solitude returns.
Lo strano caso del successo di Alan Ford e del Gruppo TNT in Serbia e nel resto della ex Yugoslavia
Money quote: "The fact that Bunker’s humour was understood by his Yugoslav readers had a lot to do with translator Nenad Brixy. “He managed to create a peculiar language” Sršen explains, “through which all the characters spoke with a strange mixture of high style and street lingo, something originally theatrical and bizarrely funny.”"
https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/12465/alan-ford-comic-books-yugoslavia
Money quote: "The fact that Bunker’s humour was understood by his Yugoslav readers had a lot to do with translator Nenad Brixy. “He managed to create a peculiar language” Sršen explains, “through which all the characters spoke with a strange mixture of high style and street lingo, something originally theatrical and bizarrely funny.”"
https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/12465/alan-ford-comic-books-yugoslavia
The Calvert Journal
The name’s Ford, Alan Ford: how an Italian comic book spy became a Yugoslav hero
The series only became a runaway success in the former Yugoslavia. What was the secret behind its dedicated cult following?
Forwarded from Fumettologica
Tra le più interessanti in uscita questo mese.
https://www.fumettologica.it/2021/03/anime-streaming-marzo-2021/
https://www.fumettologica.it/2021/03/anime-streaming-marzo-2021/
Fumettologica
5 serie d'animazione da guardare in streaming a marzo 2021 - Fumettologica
Una selezione degli anime più interessanti tra quelli resi disponibili a marzo 2021 in Italia sulle piattaforme di streaming.
Mac, iPhone, iPad: la sicurezza informatica secondo Apple - il mio articolo per La Stampa
https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/news/2021/03/07/news/mac-iphone-ipad-la-sicurezza-informatica-secondo-apple-1.39992056
https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/news/2021/03/07/news/mac-iphone-ipad-la-sicurezza-informatica-secondo-apple-1.39992056
La Stampa
Mac, iPhone, iPad: la sicurezza informatica secondo Apple
La scoperta (e neutralizzazione) del primo malware per Apple Silicon mostra il lavoro dietro le quinte del colosso di Cupertino per rendere sicura le sue piattaforme
Puf puf, anche questa domenica ce l'ho fatta: ho finito alle due di notte ma Mostly Weekly, la mia newsletter della domenica, è pronta, in tutta la sua gloria e i suoi refusi (o i suoi gloriosi refusi, se preferite). Per iscriversi basta andare qua, come sapete:
https://antoniodini.com/iscrizione/
Niente di più facile. La cosa divertente di scrivere questa newsletter è che sta cominciando a prendere forma un "sistema" che coinvolge anche il mio sito personale, la scrittura con il markdown, la sincronizzazione dei contenuti con git, l'integrazione e deployment continuo di un sito statico in Jamstack. Tutto fatto a manina. Qualcosa racconto qui:
https://antoniodini.com/storie/computer/scrivere-con-git.html
ma il meglio deve ancora venire, se riesco a trovare il tempo per mettere assieme il ragionamento che vorrei fare su come si fanno i siti oggi e sul digital gardening. Intanto, anche questa domenica la newsletter è partita!
https://antoniodini.com/iscrizione/
Niente di più facile. La cosa divertente di scrivere questa newsletter è che sta cominciando a prendere forma un "sistema" che coinvolge anche il mio sito personale, la scrittura con il markdown, la sincronizzazione dei contenuti con git, l'integrazione e deployment continuo di un sito statico in Jamstack. Tutto fatto a manina. Qualcosa racconto qui:
https://antoniodini.com/storie/computer/scrivere-con-git.html
ma il meglio deve ancora venire, se riesco a trovare il tempo per mettere assieme il ragionamento che vorrei fare su come si fanno i siti oggi e sul digital gardening. Intanto, anche questa domenica la newsletter è partita!
Mostly Here
Iscrizione
Iscriversi a Mostly Weekly è facile: basta mettere la propria mail e premere invio
Una delle cose che si pensa quando si legge un articolo in inglese è che abbia un valore globale: se c'è una contrapposizione est-ovest, Asia-Africa-Occidente, ad esempio, noi italiani ci sentiamo dalla parte dell'articolista madrelingua e non nel resto del mondo. Invece, questo che peraltro è un tema interessante (la modalità occidentale di allevare i bambini piccoli è in rottura con quella del resto del mondo e della storia dell'umanità) diventa un trattato insulare e limitato, una cosa tipo anglosassoni-vs-resto-del-mondo. Però è interessante.
Money quote: "In most other societies around the world, babies stick with their parents longer. A 2016 review that looked at research on children sharing not just a room but a bed with one or more of their parents found a high prevalence in many Asian countries: over 70% in India and Indonesia, for example, and over 80% in Sri Lanka and Vietnam. Research on bedsharing rates in countries across Africa is patchy, but where it does exist suggests the practice is near-universal."
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210222-the-unusual-ways-western-parents-raise-children
Money quote: "In most other societies around the world, babies stick with their parents longer. A 2016 review that looked at research on children sharing not just a room but a bed with one or more of their parents found a high prevalence in many Asian countries: over 70% in India and Indonesia, for example, and over 80% in Sri Lanka and Vietnam. Research on bedsharing rates in countries across Africa is patchy, but where it does exist suggests the practice is near-universal."
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210222-the-unusual-ways-western-parents-raise-children
Bbc
Is the Western way of raising kids weird?
From sleeping in separate beds to their children to transporting them in prams, Western parents have some unusual ideas about how to raise them
È un caso reale di “Bobby Tables”:
https://twitter.com/RachelTrue/status/1368004197166108676
(Il thread è uno spettacolo)
https://twitter.com/RachelTrue/status/1368004197166108676
(Il thread è uno spettacolo)
Twitter
Rachel True
Can get your coders to free my last name from icloud jail? Been locked out for 6+ months because of an uncapitalized t in TRUE, my surname but also a computer command. Now that I a layman have explained problem to you a giant computer company, could u fix?…
Compreso il consiglio: “If you decide to change your name, Rachel’); drop table AppleID_master; —
has a nice ring to it”
has a nice ring to it”
I migliori libri per costruire una strategia digital personale - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/i-migliori-libri-per-costruire-una-strategia-digital-personale/
https://www.macitynet.it/i-migliori-libri-per-costruire-una-strategia-digital-personale/
Macitynet.it
I migliori libri per costruire una strategia digital personale
Da Seth Godin con la sua Mucca Viola (in un mondo tutto marrone) all'onicotecnica, passando per la pubblicità su Facebook e i networker digitali. In questa nuova raccolta di testi su marketing e comunicazione digitale (ma non solo) vi mostriamo come si fa…
E se di sera tardi, prima di andare a letto, aveste voglia di leggere qualcosa di buono e di qualità, Nerdology, Sports and More di Alessandra Ortenzi è la vostra altra newsletter (io non mi offendo, anzi: mi piace un botto).
http://www.alessandraortenzi.it/nerdology-sports-and-more-la-mia-newsletter/
http://www.alessandraortenzi.it/nerdology-sports-and-more-la-mia-newsletter/