Bridging the Disconnect: Making Software to Make a Statement
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A project that forces a user to disconnect to read an essay and a 13‑piece digital magazine arrives as a single ~260KB download and uses React plus a tiny library of offline/online components, navigator.online with a polling fallback and service workers for offline refresh; it goes front page on Hacker News, is translated into 10 languages, proves the idea is usable in the wild, and shows how tooling choices actually enable a persuasive, participatory experience.
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- 0:00Intro
- 0:17bridging the disconnect making software to make a statement chris bolin@bolinchris
- 0:52Formidable
- 1:19software + art + culture
- 1:41Use your talents and privilege to make software that makes a statement
- 3:29the medium is the message
- 4:42novelty participation relevance
- 6:19We forget what a privilege we have. People live and breathe digital culture, and we can create new culture.
- 7:00you're not a ninja, you're gutenberg.
- 7:56Software enables this democratization
- 8:12detecting
- 8:39but it can't be that easy Chrome on Windows does not fire these events necessitates a polling backup
- 10:30Service Workers background scripts can act as a proxy
- 11:02broad browser support included in starter projects for React, Angular, Vue
- 12:45reception
- 13:43don't forget about the trolls
- 14:46dealing with trolls
- 16:24"hybrid" magazine pace & intentionality of print distribution & possibilities of digital
- 18:0013 articles and poems cover art and article art cartoon under 260 KB
- 20:41Making Statements experiments art data visualizations
- 21:03what do you want to say?
- 22:45Are we too distracted by the tools?
- 28:39Type: Music BPM: 130 Duration: 02:34 Composer: Keith Anthony Holden
