Today I’m going for pure entertainment.

Hermes is a Pandora player. Much lighter-weight than using the web interface. It’s simple, functional,  free, and open source. All the Pandora functions are there in a compact window that you can float on top or hide out of sight.

Station Selection

Sorted by name or date.

Recently Played Songs

Including viewing the song, album, and lyrics pages on Pandora.

Modify the Station

Add new artists and seeds.


Playback Settings

And set whether you’d like it to use the media keys on your keyboard, scrobble to Last.FM (does anyone still do that?), and use Notifications or Growl to announce new songs.



Hermes — Pandora Client for macOS

There’s been a lot of flak over this tweet about recognizing the mythical “10x engineer”—the engineer that is so good that it doesn’t matter if they reduce the productivity of everyone around them.

The list, which you can read below, goes on to describe some of the key characteristics of brilliant but broken engineers. The ones that C-Suite managers and investors love to hire, because it’s easier to spot a heroic misfit than a well-oiled team.

I’m reminded of the people who say of some misogynistic artiste, “We can’t blackball them just because they sexually harassed people—they’re brilliant!” Sure, they weren’t bad, but were they better than all dozen of the people whose careers they ended? We see the productivity of the star, and we fail to see what the team could have done if the “star” hadn’t gotten in the way and left them with to deal with all the crap.… Continue reading “Spotting the 10x Team Contributor”

Fire (and lots of it): Berkeley researcher on the only way to fix cryptocurrency | Ars Technica

❝ “For all of those who say ‘blockchain will solve X,'” Weaver said. “The only thing it solves is you now know the person knows nothing about X.” ❞

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/researcher-counts-the-reasons-he-wants-cryptocurrency-burned-with-fire/

A little sociology, psychology, and anthropology wouldn’t hurt either.

Originally shared by Esther Schindler

Why computer science students are demanding more ethics classes https://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/why-computer-science-students-are-demanding-more-ethics-classes-1.4812742

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/why-computer-science-students-are-demanding-more-ethics-classes-1.4812742

It’s amazing how global our computer connections are. (Screen shot from Little Snitch).

Have you written software for your employer to do things that were unethical or illegal?

http://www.businessinsider.com/programmers-confess-unethical-illegal-tasks-asked-of-them-2016-11

2016. A lot has changed since then, but we're no closer to ethical software writing.