If y'all wanna read some 🔥, @hugh posted this piece about maintenance and memory on Saturday and I was like "oh this will be interesting!" and then ended up reading the whole thing with my hand over my mouth like "oh damn."
@platypus @hugh the blog post certainly gives me things to think about as I'm building my own data management tools.
I agree, the ITAL article is curious. I started reading the abstract thinking 'Ah, some tools to allow libraries to check out books without needing to involve the librarian directly. Could be useful maybe' but then the biometrics and blockchain stuff...yeah, Fu says more, or less, because they're popular. But then, I'm not sure checking out books is actually that taxing though. Having worked in a library, it's pretty obvious that putting books on shelves and organizing them in the first place is the more costly side of the process.
