steve gattuso @stevenleeg@mastodon.technology

↗ A Message from Your Friendly Local Mail Carrier: https://www.stevegattuso.me/2020/10/09/a-message-from-your-friendly-local-mail-carrier.html

↗ New photo album: South America (Feb '20): https://www.stevegattuso.me/2020/09/02/new-photo-album.html

↗ The CEO of Uber proposes exactly what you'd expect as a solution to the exploitation of the 'gig economy': https://www.stevegattuso.me/2020/08/11/the-ceo-of-uber-proposes-exactly-what-youd-expect-as-a-solution-to-the-exploitation-of-the-gig-economy.html

↗ Google Earth Timelapses: https://www.stevegattuso.me/2020/07/31/google-earth-timelapses.html

↗ Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods: https://www.stevegattuso.me/2020/07/24/put-tiny-businesses-back-into-residential-neighborhoods.html

Getting off of social media: https://www.stevegattuso.me/2020/07/20/getting-off-of-social-media.html

https://www.stevegattuso.me/2020/07/08/hannibal-buress-miami-nights.html

https://www.stevegattuso.me/2020/06/22/darksky-makes-it-to-apples-native-weather-apps.html

hey fediverse: anyone have any recommendations for people to follow posting interesting nontechnical things?

hi! I haven't posted on mastodon in a while but would like to get back into things here. uhhhh

if you're looking for something mildly interesting I wrote a thing on how to build your own reverse geocoder using postgis and open street maps:

https://www.stevegattuso.me/2019/05/29/postgis-reverse-geocoder.html

https://zandercutt.com/2018/08/23/the-approval-economy/

the article discusses how people make product decisions based on how they think people will perceive them for having made that decision. eventually I’d like to use this principle to move [american] society away from the aspects of society that are unsustainable. for example, I want it to be more socially acceptable to purchase an electric scooter than to purchase a car.

Electric Scooters in New York City? They Just Might Work – https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/opinion/electric-scooters-new-york-city.html

great article describing a decentralized mechanism of mapping globally-unique/cryptographically secure identifiers to human-readable names: https://github.com/cwebber/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-spring2018/blob/petnames/draft-documents/making-dids-invisible-with-petnames.md