Scott Mallinson

Software development engineer

  • The weather here in Suzhou has been much cooler and more humid these past days, so I’m thinking warmer, drier thoughts of our California road trip earlier this year that took us through Joshua Tree.

  • zemo cafe

  • Today, Europe Lost The Internet. Now, We Fight Back. by Cory Doctorow (Electronic Frontier Foundation) Today, in a vote that split almost every major EU party, Members of the European Parliament adopted every terrible proposal in the new Copyright Directive and rejected every good one, setting the stage for mass, automated surveillance and arbitrary censorship…

  • Taking back control of my digital life – Timo Zimmermann by Timo Zimmermann (screamingatmyscreen.com)

  • Google Is Handing the Future of the Internet to China by Suzanne Nossel (Foreign Policy) The company has been quietly collaborating with the Chinese government on a new, censored search engine—and abandoning its own ideals in the process.

  • EU approves controversial Copyright Directive, including internet ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’ by James Vincent (The Verge) Those in favor say they’re fighting for content creators, but critics say the new laws will be ‘catastrophic’

  • Why we’re building a social network supported by people, not advertisers by The Are.na team (Fast Company) The designers behind Are.na explain the thinking that led to their nascent social platform, winner of the 2018 Innovation By Design General Excellence award.

  • The top four web performance challenges | Clearleft by Clearleft Ltd (Clearleft) Counting down the charts—what will be in the number one spot?

  • The future of the Home of the Future by Dan Seifert (The Verge) We join Grant Imahara in examining where the Home of the Future goes next.

  • Robustness and least power | Clearleft by Clearleft Ltd (Clearleft) A tale of two principles.