With Great Nerdery Comes Great Responsibility

With Great Power
Comes Great Responsibility
John SJ Anderson § @genehack
PPW2014 § 2014-11-08

Nerder y
With Great Power
Comes Great Responsibility
John SJ Anderson § @genehack
PPW2014 § 2014-11-08

image: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m69bglG75B1r72cw7o1_500.jpg

is there anybody in here that hasn't heard that? you're the product.
image: https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6170/6185789175_41f41c843d_z.jpg

and i don't mean to just pick on Facebook here -- the "you're the product" business model is industry standard.
image: https://twitter.com/danlyke/status/529826711324876802

hell, even if you _are_ paying for a service, that doesn't stop the service owner from making you into the product
image: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/10/28/att-says-its-testing-unkillable-tracker-on-customers-smartphones/

My name is John and
this is my manifesto
i have feels.

many feels
image: http://www.hnldesign.nl/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/The-Manifesto-Manifesto.jpg

We're nerds.
We can do better.
the people in this room have the ability to do things that not many people can do. we need to step up and do something about this.

We can do better for our
friends and family too.
and we need to do it in such a way that we lift up the people we care about. we can't just make tools for ourselves, we have to make tools for normal people too.

Some recent
exemplary efforts
not everything is bad news. there are other people that have started trying to do stuff about this too.

ftrain's tilde.club
screencap by speaker

brennen's squiggle.city
screencap by speaker

full of stuff that looks like this.

see, here's the thing -- the internet didn't use to be like this.
image: http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110515062056/simpsons/images/3/38/Abe.png

i got on the internet in 1989. i read usenet groups on a vt220 at the university of iowa. (before endless september!)
image: http://i.imgur.com/2MhE2.jpg

years later, in 1998, i started one of the first weblogs and was part
of an incredibly active and vibrant community that was convinced -- at least some of us were convinced -- that what we were doing, sharing our thoughts and cross-linking
things and snarking about politics -- was going to change everything.
left: http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/04/06/svBLOG_narrowweb__300x506,0.jpg
right: http://robiospeaks.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/peter-merholz.png

and we were right.
photo: stevan little

except for the comments. i apologize for the whole commenting thing, in retrospect it was a really bad idea.
image: https://img0.etsystatic.com/011/0/7887463/il_fullxfull.438911204_gfot.jpg

so enough "good old days" nonsense. i pointed out some people that were trying to do something about this -- what am _i_ trying to do?
image: no idea. i am a bad person and i feel bad.

there are a number of things i have on my todo list for 2015: moving away from google, replacing "free" services with services i pay for, or even better, write myself.
image: https://i.imgflip.com/bjr2p.jpg

but for this talk, i want to focus on twitter.
image:http://edudemic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/twitter1.gif

I ❤️ Twitter.
i really like twitter-the-service. i'm on twitter a _lot_. twitter has helped me hire people, it's been essential in making friends after i moved across the country a couple
years ago, and it's how i keep up with the vast majority of my friends.

I ⃠❤️ Twitter.
i'm not quite as big a fan of twitter-the-company. they don't seem to have a great idea of what direction they're going in, and their attempts at monetization and attracting
new users have me increasingly concerned for the future of twitter-the-service.

Thinking about solutions.
Or even just mitigations.
Options.
Escape hatches.
so i'm thinking about ways to solve those problems, or even just reduce them. thinking about where i could go, if it came down to that. thinking about what would be in
my "go bag".

Inspiration.
one of the best benefits of my job is getting to hang out with people that make me want to do better.

• Archive
• Search
• Potential Escape Hatch
great, because it does the stuff that shawn wanted it to do.

doesn't do everything i want though.

So I started writing
Klatsch.

• Archive
• Search
• Feed reading / management
• Posting (micro- and macro-blogging)
• RSS reader
• Hub for online social activity in general

• Archive
• Search
Note: almost all
currently aspirational...
• Whole Feed
• Posting (micro- and macro-blogging)
• RSS reader
• Hub for online social activity in general

Most importantly:
Easy deployment.
I want other people to be able to run their own copies of this software too. Centralization of this sort of thing provides an incentive towards silo-a-zation, and that's the
beginning of the bad times.

Not Perl
Perl deployments are horrible.

Best deployment story
around, currently:

Go (aka golang)
• Statically typed (w/inference)
• Compiled (cross-platform)
• C-like syntax & design
• Garbage collected
• Excellent concurrency support
• Interesting approach to OO

But, most importantly:
Statically-linked. Binaries.
Deployment == trivial.

package
main
import
"fmt"
func
main()
{
fmt.Print("Hello
world")
}
this is hello world in go.

%
ls
-‐sh
hello
1.8M
hello*
static linking == big binaries

but it doesn't matter.
image: http://www.quickmeme.com/img/3b/3b0241c9f06118600eaa2271ac5a0e11c619bc72a2a547d6883c8f62a2dc7a58.jpg

package
main
import
(
"fmt"
"github.com/spf13/cobra"
)
func
main()
{
var
cmdFetch
=
&cobra.Command{
Use:
"fetch",
Short:
"fetch",
Long:
"long
fetch",
Run:
fetch,
}
var
Force
bool
cmdFetch.PersistentFlags().BoolVarP(&Force,
"force",
"F",
false,
"build
HTML
page
even
if
nothing
has
changed")
var
cmdImportTweets
=
&cobra.Command{
Use:
"import_tweets",
Short:
"import",
Long:
"long
import",
Run:
func(cmd
*cobra.Command,
args
[]string)
{
fmt.Println("import_tweets
not
implemented
yet.")
},
}
...
var
rootCmd
=
&cobra.Command{Use:
"klatsch"}
rootCmd.AddCommand(cmdFetch,
cmdImportTweets,
cmdInit,
cmdSearch,
cmdServer)
rootCmd.Execute()
}

import
(
...
"github.com/ChimeraCoder/anaconda"
)
func
fetch(cmd
*cobra.Command,
args
[]string)
{
var
force
bool
=
false
if
cmd.Flag("force").Value.String()
==
"true"
{
force
=
true
}
exitUnlessDatabaseExists()
db
:=
getDatabaseHandle()
defer
db.Close()
twitter
:=
getTwitterApiHandle(db)
v
:=
url.Values{"count":
{"200"}}
timeline,
err
:=
twitter.GetUserTimeline(v)
if
err
!=
nil
{
log.Fatal(err)
}
inserted,
err
:=
saveTimeline(db,
timeline)
if
err
!=
nil
{
log.Fatal(err)
}
if
force
||
inserted
>
0
{
if
err
=
writeOutTimeline(db);
err
!=
nil
{
log.Fatal(err)
}
}
}

import
(
...
"github.com/ChimeraCoder/anaconda"
)
func
fetch(cmd
*cobra.Command,
args
[]string)
{
var
force
bool
=
false
if
cmd.Flag("force").Value.String()
==
"true"
{
force
=
true
}
exitUnlessDatabaseExists()
db
:=
getDatabaseHandle()
defer
db.Close()
twitter
:=
getTwitterApiHandle(db)
v
:=
url.Values{"count":
{"200"}}
timeline,
err
:=
twitter.GetUserTimeline(v)
if
err
!=
nil
{
log.Fatal(err)
}
inserted,
err
:=
saveTimeline(db,
timeline)
if
err
!=
nil
{
log.Fatal(err)
}
if
force
||
inserted
>
0
{
if
err
=
writeOutTimeline(db);
err
!=
nil
{
log.Fatal(err)
}
}
}
You can take the
boy out of Perl...

Live demo!
(safest live demo evar.)

<!DOCTYPE
html>
<html
lang="en"
data-‐ng-‐app="klatsch">
<head>
<meta
charset="utf-‐8">
<title>Klatsch!</title>
<link
href="css/bootstrap.min.css"
rel="stylesheet">
<link
href="css/klatsch.css"
rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
<div
class="container">
<div
class="col-‐md-‐3"></div>
<div
class="col-‐md-‐6">
<h1>Postin'</h1>
<twitter-‐input></twitter-‐input>
</div>
<div
class="col-‐md-‐3"></div>
</div>
<div
class="footer">
<div
class="container">
<p
class="text-‐muted">Powered
by
Klatsch!</p>
</div>
</div>
<script
src="http://code.angularjs.org/1.2.26/angular.min.js"></script>
<script
src="js/directives.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

directive("twitterInput",
function
()
{
return
{
restrict:
"E"
,
replace:
true
,
templateUrl:
"./twitter_input.html"
,
controller:
function($scope,$timeout)
{
$scope.error
=
function(name)
{
var
form
=
$scope.form[name];
return
form.$invalid
&&
form.$dirty
?
"has-‐error"
:
"";
};
},
scope:
{}
};
})

<form
name="form"
role="form">
<div
class="form-‐group"
data-‐ng-‐class="error('postfield')">
<div
class="controls">
<input
type="text"
name="postfield"
class="form-‐control"
data-‐ng-‐trim=false
counted-‐max="140"
data-‐ng-‐model="post.content"
placeholder="Compose
new
tweet"
/>
</div>
<div
class="pull-‐right"
style="margin:5px
0;">
<span
class="help-‐block
inline-‐display"
data-‐ng-‐show="form.postfield.$error.unique">
Post
is
too
long!
</span>
<span
class="count"
style="margin-‐right:5px"
data-‐ng-‐class="error('postfield')">
{{140
-‐
post.content.length}}
</span>
<button
class="btn
btn-‐primary"
data-‐ng-‐click="postToTwitter(account)"
data-‐ng-‐disabled="!form.$valid">
Post
to
Twitter
</button>
</div>
</div>
</form>

.directive("countedMax",
function()
{
return
{
require:
"ngModel"
,
restrict:
"A"
,
link:
function(scope,element,attrs,ngModelCtrl)
{
var
maxlength
=
Number(attrs.countedMax);
function
fromUser(text)
{
ngModelCtrl.$setValidity(
'unique',
text.length
<=
maxlength
);
return
text;
}
ngModelCtrl.$parsers.unshift(fromUser);
}
};
})

So that's what I'm
trying to do about it.

what can _you_ do about it?
image: http://memestorage.com/_nw/21/04359364.jpg

Just use the
app and give
me feedback.
once it's ready, I mean.
image: http://memestorage.com/_nw/21/04359364.jpg

http://www.poststat.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/patches-welcome-752x361.jpg

Or write your
own tool!
(and then we can figure out
how to make them work
together!)
http://treasure.diylol.com/uploads/post/image/399053/resized_jesus-says-meme-generator-jesus-says-do-it-yourself-ffe55f.jpg

http://lesquestionscomposent.fr/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/23353915.jpg

https://github.com/genehack/klatsch

https://github.com/genehack/klatsch
questions?

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