I've shifted to Twitter
Not surprisingly -- Twitter is easy and fun, and it's engaging. See @HenrikBechmann The small set of people I follow there are deeply embedded in their »
Civic Tech in the Modern Society
For those of us in the Civic Tech world, the question What's Civic Tech? surfaces from time to time. Recently, I've been thinking about how to »
PCVM pattern
Getting up to speed in the React world, there's a pattern which started to emerge in previous worlds, but seems to be getting clearer. I haven't »
Material-ui with Typescript
I've selected typescript/react/hapijs as my software stack of choice for my next set of projects, and I would prefer to work with Google's Material »
Typescript/React in a Vagrant/Virtualbox environment
In this blog Strategy Step one: Typescript Implementation Directory structure Test code Issues Next steps Strategy When choosing a software stack, there are two main considerations. »
Community Panel: 'do, learn, do'
The Metcalf Foundation hosted an event at the CSI Annex site recently to celebrate the work of the Thorncliffe Park Women's Committee in establishing place making »
Bill Gates and friends try to save the world
This will be interesting to watch. For years Bill Gates has been saying that the climate change issue has a (conceptually) simple solution: search for technology »
Rooftop farming is growing
Gotham Greens is a successful food company that farms on rooftops in Chicago and New York. The Pullman, Chicago greenhouse farm According to a Toronto Star »
Protein and carbs are for you; veggies are for your microbes
OK, it's an over-simplification, but according to The Hidden Half of Nature, a new book by a couple of married scientists, it's not far off either. »
Cloning factories. Yes, cloning factories.
According to Quartz (see about Quartz) a $31M cloning factory is planned for China. This will make it the largest in world, and will copy dogs, »