Scott Mallinson

Software development engineer

  • The theme of this year’s festival is ‘the wind of time’ and it features visionary work from some of the world’s most renowned photographers. The striking images, from fashion shoots to food factories, can be seen at the Lianzhou Museum of Photography in southern China until 3 January 2019 Source: Vogue shoots and bike cemeteries:…

  • In the last month or so I gave three talks about blogs and me: one lightening talk at ViewSource, one at TODO London and another one at ReactJSGirls. Although I had applied for them at different times, they all happened close to each other and with IndieWebCamp, FFConf, organising a career panel and a work…

  • All this WordPress 5.0 Gutenberg stuff got me thinking. With WordPress it seems like the Indieweb starts making serious and cool progress and the WordPress people come along and knock the game board… Source: Blog Engines and Indieweb Controlling Upstream | Brad Enslen

  • Today, Nextcloud 15 has been made available. As there is so much new and improved in this release, we have dedicated separate blogs to each main area of improvement. This blog covers the brand new Nextcloud Social, introducing social networking to Nextcloud. Download now! The Mastodon project is excited that… Source: Nextcloud introduces social features,…

  • Since 2007, photographer Jono Rotman has been documenting the Mongrel Mob, a violent brotherhood with over 30 networks across New Zealand. Source: Up close with New Zealand’s most notorious gang

  • Snapshots from a couple of weeks ago. These photos of @xjtlu’s Central Building – my second home – were taken 6 days apart when air pollution dropped from absurd to bearable 😷🙁

  • China’s Orwellian Social Credit Score Isn’t Real by Jamie Horsley (Foreign Policy) Blacklists and monitoring systems are nowhere close to Black Mirror fantasies.

  • Early days with my new OnePlus 6T but the night mode camera has produced some nice photos so far.

  • At China’s Internet Conference, a Darker Side of Tech Emerges (nytimes.com) The World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, China, has long showcased flashy new tech. This year, discussions also dealt with counterterrorism, data breaches and surveillance.

  • China’s state-run press agency has created an ‘AI anchor’ to read the news by James Vincent (The Verge) But the agency’s new host isn’t any more sophisticated than a CGI puppet