Chief Engineer of Software and Information Systems at Advanced Kiosks. Interested in kiosks or public computing? Happy to discuss! blaise at advancedkiosks daught com
I'm also the founder of https://www.earlytours.com. Interested in the history of travel and tourism? Happy to discuss that too! blaise at earlytours daught com
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VT State Univ. ignores pleas to keep physical library amidst digitization effort
A lot of smaller organizations really struggle to collaborate with their software teams. Collaboration is hard, in general, but especially so if the organization isn't fluent and competent in software product development. Before you go diving into the psychology of your sad and despondent software team, look around them. Are the people working with them capable of supporting and engaging with these engineers?
I think the last time I tried Deno for desktop it didn't allow for fullscreen webview apps. that was a showstopper for our kiosk apps. I'll have to revisit that issue and see if it's resolved now. I'm glad to see Deno continuing to march on.
or are you setting the scene for well-meaning technocrats to back unrestricted AI development in hopes it will bring about utopia while dismissing the damage it could cause in the hands of adversarial groups?
| When the people who built and operated your cloud would rather knead dough than touch a terminal again, that’s not a career pivot. That’s a trauma response.
Yes it is and I'm glad someone has said it. I didn't realize it until now.
I'm building an operational dashboard for solo entrepreneurs in the collectibles market.
Most of the people in this space are tech illiterate, but I think that's going to change when they start to age out.
The next generation of antique dealers and collectibles market curators are going to need tools built for them.
I only entered the space 6 months ago after inheriting some old vintage travel and tourism material. I was lured in! I've spent the last 15 years of my tech career working on custom built systems that are perfectly suited and tailored to my needs and the needs of my team.
As soon as I started shopping on ebay, checking comps on worthpoint, browsing for auctions on liveauctioneers, manually searching hathitrust and other institutions for research... I started to want to build my own tools immediately.
I don't want 15 different dashboards. I want one. So, I plan to leverage my technical background and expertise in building systems to hopefully enable me outmaneuver other dealers and curators.
I hope to build custom intake pipelines. There's a keyword crisis in the collectibles market. If the seller doesn't put the right keyword in their listing, or the buyer doesn't put the right keyword in their search query, the two never meet. I look for very specific types of old vintage travel and tourism material, and I have to manage a list of hundreds of search terms in order just to find one specific type of item. They are out there, they're just hidden and unaccessible.
I'm getting into old maps, books, and ephemera - mostly travel and tourism related stuff. I'm also currently researching old printing methods like lithography and letterpress. I recently purchased my first rubber brayer, some cotton-rag paper, some ink, and a 1930's letterpress plate. I hope to have my first pulls this weekend if time allows.
If you want America on board, get the people on board. Tell them why it's a good idea to stop driving their car. I'm not saying this to be snarky, but that's what it's going to take.
I have no evidence besides my own experience, but I think that the "back the blue" mentality might skew their support staff's objectivity a bit. Especially in smaller cities and towns where cops aren't just law enforcement, they are foundational pillars of morality and governance. The point I hope I'm making is that they are getting bad advice not because they are stupid, or the people around them are, but rather because it's inevitable due to complex social and psychological reasons.
I'm not surprised. Weren't we getting signals like 3 or 4 months ago that used car repossessions were ticking up? That's a breaking point for folks. The economic boulder keeps rolling and I'm not wearing any shoes. Spiking the price of oil is definitely going to help. This too shall pass?
I'm also the founder of https://www.earlytours.com. Interested in the history of travel and tourism? Happy to discuss that too! blaise at earlytours daught com