writer. editor. chocoholic. geek. doing online community and social media since before they were buzzwords. Find me on just about every social site as @estherschindler
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Doctordle: Test your medical knowledge with daily clinical scenarios
doctordle.org
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Die Zeit Built a Searchable Database of Nazi Party Members
gijn.org
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RIP tech journalist John C. Dvorak (1946–2026)
facebook.com
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Designing a 4D Digital Archive for Ikebana
ishiguro-lab.org
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DEI Ain't Dead According to New Study
blackenterprise.com
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Redis slashed 25% of its Tel Aviv workforce (and 200 worldwide)
timesofisrael.com
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Museum of the Human Web
museum.parallel.ai
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Silicon Valley has a science fiction problem
aeon.co
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'Music was my first desire': Anthony Hopkins releases his debut single
theguardian.com
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NASA's request to the private sector for plans for commercial space stations
sam.gov
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Historic Photos of NASA's Cavernous Wind Tunnels
theatlantic.com
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Finland's last analogue landline phones go silent after 150 years
> With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years....
I worked as a contractor at Lotus for about a year, back in 1987. My client/friend told me a story about Kapor that has stuck with me, although it turned out that she was an utterly unreliable witness... so take this with a grain of salt. She was Lotus employee #70, though, so maybe it's true.
Kapor found himself in an elevator with another employee sometime after he had handed over the reins to Jim Manzi. The other employee, who apparently didn't recognize Kapor, was dressed in a full three-piece suit. "That's when Kapor decided to leave," my erstwhile friend told me. "He said, I started Lotus because I wanted a company where I could wear Hawaiian shirts and sandals. I didn't want to work somewhere where I had to wear a suit." But that's what Lotus had become, so it was time to go.
I crossposted this to the os2 reddit, as well as LinkedIn and my personal Facebook page. I used to write about OS/2 exclusively, so I'm still connected with a lot of the IBM engineers and executives. Though I would not count on them keeping every language version, any more than I kept the 300 OS/2 applications I'd acquired.
You don't need a separate site for that. Some LinkedIn "quick apply" applications have exactly those sorts of questions. ("How many years of experience do you have with Toolname?" or "Do you have more than 8 years experience in the Foobar industry?"
I never once got an interview from those companies.
Initially called Zapcis, Howard Benner released the new shareware version as TAPCIS, which IIRC cost $35 to register. Worth every penny because I was paying long distance rates to access CompuServe, with phone bills regularly exceeding $250/month. (There were a few competitors, such as OZCIS.)
Far beyond automation, TAPCIS had messaging features that I wish I had today, particularly as sysop/moderator. For instance, if a message thread unraveled (as they do), and the conversation wandered from "snow tires two or four?" to "favorite radio stations"... the sysop could type Ctrl-S and snip into a new thread with a more suitable title. I WANT THIS EVERY SINGLE DAY.