"We’ve told stories about inanimate things coming to life for thousands of years, and these narratives influence how we interpret what is going on now"
On AI coverage in the press: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/25/ai-artificial-intelligence-social-media-bots-wrong
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A great deep dive on building GitHub's code view, optimising React, scaling to thousands whilst supporting both Ctrl-F and syntax highlighting:
On the tendency for short term software design decisions to impact thousands of people for years:
"Instead of a community of active contributors, open source often looks more like a few developers playing air traffic controller to thousands of users who are lightly involved."
https://increment.com/open-source/the-rise-of-few-maintainer-projects/
Fabulous post on how software contribution dynamics have changed.