https://opensource.com/article/19/4/what-developer-journal Our jobs around computers often center on solving problems. When the momentary euphoria of solving a problem ends, and we move onto the next problem. The idea behind a developer journal is that making relevant notes as you go about your tasks can help the future you. Even if you work with a tool →
In a stunning rejection of the will five million online petitioners, and over 100,000 protestors this weekend, the European Parliament has abandoned common-sense and the advice of academics, technologists, and UN human rights experts, and approved the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive in its entirety. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/03/eus-parliament-signs-disastrous-internet-law-what-happens-next https://thenextweb.com/eu/2019/03/26/european-parliament-votes-yes-on-controversial-copyright-reform/ →
https://web30.web.cern.ch/home Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal in March 1989 called “Information Management: A Proposal“. By 1991 this vision of universal connectivity had become the World Wide Web. Today web turns 30 years old. Let’s celebrate the day by remembering the old days when we used dial-up modems and most web pages were not bloated →
https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/eu-copyright-final-text/ This EU law will fundamentally change the internet as we know it – if it is adopted in the upcoming final vote. But we can still prevent that! The history of this law is a shameful one. From the very beginning, the purpose of Articles 11 and 13 was never to solve clearly-defined issues →
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/climate-change-self-defeating-alarmism-by-bjorn-lomborg-2018-12 The truth about climate change is nuanced: it is real, and in the long term it will be a problem, but its impact is less than we might believe. And yet we are too eager to believe the problem is far worse than science shows. Climate change seems to freeze our capacity for critical →
https://inktank.fi/rake-news-how-social-media-trolled-trump-about-raking-finnish-forests/ This weekend Donald Trump visited wildfire-devastated California and said that California should do more ‘raking like Finland.’ Nobody rakes forests in Finland. Needless to say, Finns on social media had a field day with Trump’s “rake news. →
Uusiteknologia.fi is new Finnish language electronics and technology professionals magazine. In the newest issue have written articles on four topics (text in Finnish with short introduction in English). Here are the topics I have written articles to it: Buyers Guide: IoT Cloud Services Internet of Things (IoT) solves today many business challenges and creates opportunities →
https://www.engadget.com/2018/09/12/eu-copyright-directive-article-11-13-law-internet-ruling-censorship/ The EU has voted on copyright reform (again), with members of European Parliament this time voting in favor of the extremely controversial Articles 11 and 13 on new Copyright Directive. As webmaster and content creator I don’t like this decision at all. This is bad for Internet and all users. And I don’t think →
https://opensource.com/article/18/8/must-read-tech-newsletters Here’s an interesting looking list of 14 newsletters on open source software. →
https://inktank.fi/freedom-press-billboards-helsinki-putin-trump-2018/ Take on the Helsinki 2018 summit: A high-five to the ad people at Finland’s, and the entire Nordic region’s biggest daily newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat, or ‘Hesari’. →