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Quirk
Craig Gidney, Algorithmic Assertions, 2018/07/31

This is lovely. Quirk is a quantum computing circuit simulator. It takes me back to my days of doing machine language programming on silicon computers - except all the commands are different. Weird. You'll want to watch the introductory video before messing around with the simulation. For the enthusiasts, the code is on GitHub. (This, by the way, is how we learn advanced concepts in technology now - forget classes and textbooks - give me a simulation, intro video and code any day. And a Stack discussion channel to niggle about it.

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Medium is only an edge server of your POSSE CDN, your own blog is the origin
Nicolas Hoizey, Dev, 2018/07/31

According to this post, "Medium, Twitter, Facebook and others are edge services for your content, they are the platforms where you will find — unfortunately — more readers that on your own URL." This is actually what I do (though my dedication to doing it wavers a bit). The 'home' for my articles is here, downes.ca. But you can also find them on Blogger, LinkedIn and Medium (my last article on OERs was posted on all four). What I'm noticing: each geterates its own audience - the Blogger and LinkedIn posts perform pretty well, Medium has almost zero readers (if you're not promoted by Medium head office, you're nowhere), and downes.ca is somewhere in between. I still do this manually. I'm writing code to automate it (ie., push a button to "publish to...").

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Stepping back from POSSE
Ben Werdmuller, 2018/07/31

In retrospect, it should have been obvious that the commercial social network services would use the scourge of fake news to increase the barriers around their own silos. For example, "Facebook is shutting off API access to publish to profiles tomorrow." Others will probably follow. "From here on out," writes Ben Werdmuller, "I'm going to stop automatically syndicating anything, and will revert to manually posting... it's long past time to stop building code on top of centralized silos of content." I stopped using Facebook nearly two years ago, of course, though I still send OLDaily posts to Twitter. If and when that breaks, I probably won't try to fix it.

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What the heck is a webmention?
Greg McVerry, YouTube, 2018/07/31

From the summary of this video: " Here is a video describing the power of webmentions in #edu5222. My students are amazed that they do all their learning from their own domain but their replies show up on each other’s post and our rss feed magically slurps up everything they write. One thing to note you dn’t need a reply post-kind for your webmention to work. You can just mention somebody’s url in you post or or link to a specific page or post on their website in any post-kind at it will work as well. "

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