Listen "195: Sloppy Focus"
Episode Synopsis
MastodonThings kick off with about ten minutes of very useful nail clipper talk.
Up next, lots of good listener Follow-Up on the origins of CSS color names, how to pause a TikTok with your meat fingers, plus revealing some scalable methods for finding free money from the government.
Next, comes some FU on Lifestreams that somehow kind of becomes the basis for the rest of the episode.
How can we track the stuff that's valuable to us—but also provide the specificity and context needed to annotate that data in a way that makes it *actionable*?
Then, of course, you wonder about the privacy implications of living in a panopticon. Sure isn't working out too great for the Uyghurs. *Won't somebody please think of the children?*
The digital divide is real, but you may not realize how real until you watch someone else use a computer. Secret gestures, powerful browser plug-ins, and even general internet hygiene are still anything but evenly distributed.
Finally, John shows Merlin how to fix his notifications even as he continues to refuse a very generous job offer.
(*Recorded Thursday, November 3, 2022*)
Up next, lots of good listener Follow-Up on the origins of CSS color names, how to pause a TikTok with your meat fingers, plus revealing some scalable methods for finding free money from the government.
Next, comes some FU on Lifestreams that somehow kind of becomes the basis for the rest of the episode.
How can we track the stuff that's valuable to us—but also provide the specificity and context needed to annotate that data in a way that makes it *actionable*?
Then, of course, you wonder about the privacy implications of living in a panopticon. Sure isn't working out too great for the Uyghurs. *Won't somebody please think of the children?*
The digital divide is real, but you may not realize how real until you watch someone else use a computer. Secret gestures, powerful browser plug-ins, and even general internet hygiene are still anything but evenly distributed.
Finally, John shows Merlin how to fix his notifications even as he continues to refuse a very generous job offer.
(*Recorded Thursday, November 3, 2022*)
More episodes of the podcast Reconcilable Differences
271: My System is Symmetrical
10/10/2025
270: We Inflated Our Pants
25/09/2025
269: The Rope Elf
12/09/2025
268: Beach Grit
29/08/2025
267: Crumbs and Soldiers
14/08/2025
266: The Misspeaking Community
31/07/2025
265: Stop Collapsing Everything
18/07/2025
264: Alphabetical Shadow
03/07/2025
263: A Ragnarok of the Mind
20/06/2025
262: Everybody’s Got a Tunnel
06/06/2025