Dragan Espenschied @despens@digipres.club

Where the true headz download Flash today https://www.flash.cn/

Pretty bold approach to software preservation: https://www.zdnet.com/article/south-african-government-releases-its-own-browser-just-to-re-enable-flash-support/

Rhizome is hiring a web manager: https://documents.rhizome.org/Website%20Manager.pdf

https://twitter.com/rhizome/status/1354171812163117056

Any painting digitized with a 10 Gigapixel resolution looks fine, but great art also works when digitized with a Gameboy camera. #preservationhottakes

From primordial slime until today, we have come so far, but as soon as you try to insert an image into text you start to question if it all was worth it...

Writing is already bad, but inserting images is the worst

Matrix bros

First time collaboratively writing a grant app using nextcloud, pretty nice!

W-O-A-H zombo.com was updated to "HTML5" http://www.zombo.com/

The dark side of open source is that for this Wikibase project I need to be fluent with Lua, PHP, Python, HTML, Docker, SPARQL, and of course bash.

"Flash ha muerto, viva Flash."

https://elpais.com/tecnologia/2020-12-30/flash-de-ultratumba-carrera-a-contrarreloj-para-resucitar-dos-decadas-de-arte-y-videojuegos.html

Sliding into 2021 like

Rhizome boosting the Flash preservation fundraiser with a telethon of Flash artworks on new year's eve*! https://rhizome.org/events/flash-sunset-twitchstream/

* for inhabitants around GMT-5 time zones

Reading "Interop" by Palfry and Gasser, 2012. Probably marks the tipping point when everything was called "technology" for long enough and the first sprinkles of "experience" are appearing.

Finally arrived at a point where I find it much easier to write SPARQL than SQL