Author: Doc
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Everyone is Lying to You For Money
It is remarkable to me how cryptocurrency continues to hang around. Sane people have known crypto is a slickly marketed Ponzi scheme for nearly a decade. Line Goes Up, an incredibly entertaining explanation of how NFTs were full of shit and, tangentially, how all crypto was full of the same shit, was released over four…
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Enshittification, Episode 1
This evening I was looking for a link to a simple web developers’ resource, a listing of all the native html elements. I know a listing like this exists, though I haven’t had to look for one in a few years. So, I entered the following search term into Google: “full listing of native html…
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Arcane: League of Legends
We don’t get to choose our families. We don’t get to choose the times in which we live. The best we can hope is that the times bind us closer to our brothers or sisters rather than cleave us apart. At the heart of Arcane: League of Legends (Netflix 2021-2024) is a story of a…
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Man with Beard
Copyright 2025 E.W. Parris Digital portrait.
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Starting things
My post last week of the video about HyperCard has got me thinking about a coding project. I’d like to see a web of personal sites develop that interact in a very HyperCard-like fashion. When I was working for one of the leaders in online education, I began experimenting with simple components that could be…
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Woman in a Scarf
Copyright 2025 E.W. Parris Pencil Sketch.
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The Face of Evil
A chess match, played by two brilliant but flawed opponents. Two narcissists hoping to manipulate the other into helping them achieve their own ends. For Hermann Göring, the goal is to cheat the hangman’s noose and show the world that the Nazi Reich was a just cause. For Dr. Douglas Kelly, the goal was to…
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Andy Serkis
Copyright 2025 E.W. Parris Digital portrait.
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Get set up for your run
As of this week, I’ve begun my run through the query trenches with my latest novel, The Kingdom of Nod. I don’t know who first coined the term Query Trench, but it feels right. No one is an expert in querying. There are those who were successful, writers who have been signed, and those who…
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The Root of the Internet
My first programming language was BASIC on a Commodore 64. The next was Hypertalk on a Mac. Hypercard was the beginning of a two decade career making multimedia (the term for audio-visual interactive experiences from 1990-2005ish). This video does a fine job of capturing the concepts behind Hypercard and the types of hippies that spawned…