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science

How The Internet Will Pay You

TL;DR I worked on a project to make internet access free. Here’s what I learned about work, creativity, and getting paid to be yourself.

By @praisejames [ 10 Min read ]

Or something around that time.

I’m sitting on my bed, soaked in sweat, deploying the final code tweaks for Slakenet - on my phone.

Yes, I wrote code on my phone. My palms are clammy, and I keep blowing on them, trying not to smudge the screen.

That’s value-for-money...

tech-stories

How to Test for Neighborhood-Level Internet Disparities

TL;DR I’ll walk through the decisions we made for our investigation at The Markup in the hopes that this will help you test for neighborhood-level disparities

By @TheMarkup [ 6 Min read ]

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There were two major technical hurdles we needed to address to make this project accessible to non-coders:..

On This Day

TRS-80 Model 100 Introduced

Radio Shack introduces the TRS-80 Model 100, one of the first portable computers in a notebook-style form factor. The portability, simplicity, and built-in modem of the Model 100 made it very popular with journalists who could write stories in the field and transmit them back to their offices. Incidentally, in...