• Protect Me From What I Want: No algorithm isn’t an option because even just giving you a list of your most recent statuses is an algorithm choice. What do you do with a status that was boosted several time by people you follow … do you show duplicates? Answering yes / no to this is an algorithmic choice. Finishes with food for though: Can we come up with an algorithm that isn’t made by somebody trying to sell you something or influence your thinking for personal gain? Can we make an altruistic algorithm?
  • Spring boot + htmx: 30m video shows a tiny todo app that uses bootstrap, spring boot and htmx which is a library you can use to markup frontend code in the backend to add behaviour that would traditionally be implemented with javascript.