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These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 Software can be finished We don’t need this many interpreted web languages. More generally we don’t need half a dozen open source libraries doing the same thing. Sometimes the mature thing can be even for a project that is very ‘successful’—especially if that success is by now mostly toxic—to consider the project finished, cut a final release and archive the repos. php programming software sustainability 🔖 Computing As Social Activity Despite appearances to the contrary, computers are fundamentally social machines.1 We ought, then, to regard the use of computers as inherently social. Computing As Social Activity, or CASA, is a set of principles meant to align the ways we use, design and understand computers with social values that stand in support of communities, rather than work against them. computing coop manifestos 🔖 What Can a Computer See?: Testing the Limits of Automated QA for Web Archives Preserving a website…