aka low-fi - low-fidelity, low-quality (of reproduction); also local-first

aka Pharo Smalltalk

We build identity, data, and compute solutions for the future of the Internet. https://fission.codes/

kinda like a Taxonomy, but with more clauses defining relationships among terms (more)

The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free? The phrase—“local-first software”— had an artisanal, farm-to-table sort of ring, at once familiar and flicking at something new. Perhaps some engineers dismissed it as merely a marketing term. But others whittling away their workday afternoons seemed to see it as the solution to a problem they had long sensed: The software they were writing was broken. (more)

[[Riccardo Mazzarini's GitHub profile (more)

Szymon Kaliski, Adam Wiggins, James Lindenbaum of Ink and Switch: on End-user Programming. In their computing lives, power users often want simple extensibility. (more)

Geoffrey Litt, Max Schoening, Paul Shen, Paul Sonnentag (of Ink and Switch) on Potluck: Dynamic documents as personal software. There’s a certain joy to scribbling down a note, whether in a physical notebook or a digital notebook app. We can write down information in whatever messy format we want, with no formal ceremony. (more)

Jared Forsyth: In Search of a Local-First Database. Recently, I've been re-energized in my search by the wonderful Local-first software article by Ink and Switch, and then by James Long's dotConf talk, CRDTs for Mortals. (more)

Chad Kohalyk: LoFi software and inverting our relationship to The Cloud. The CTO of my company appeared in a recent Wired article about Local-First Software. Gotta say, it is pretty exciting to be in the pages of Wired. “LoFi” is something Fission is trying to enable with the protocols and SDK we have been working on (more)

Maggie Appleton: Programming Portals. In the mid 1980's the world of computer interfaces cracked in two, leaving a gaping divide between two opposing paradigms. Most of us consider GUIs as an enormous leap forward for computing accessibility and usability (more)

Towards a research community for better thinking tools (tools for thought). ..one area has stood out consistently as both personally exciting and more widely important: imagining and building better ways computers can help people do their best creative, thoughtful work (more)

an agreement to do something (by a certain time, conforming to certain expectations) (more)

Michiko Aoyama: What You Are Looking For Is in the Library ISBN:1335005625, reviewed and recommended by Robin Sloan (more)

Past and present reads. Bolded-titles were faves. See esp. Greatest Books (more)

Good Services: How to Design Services that Work by Lou Downe ISBN:9063695438 on Experience Design for eGov and the Service Economy (more)

where we are Living In Chicago Suburbs starting Aug'2009, in Illinois (more)

There's an election Apr04, and I want to see what I can find out about the Barrington, IL candidates. (more)

Lauren Opal Boebert (/ˈboʊbərt/ BOH-bərt; née Roberts; born December 19, 1986) is an American politician, businesswoman, and gun rights activist[3] serving as the U.S. representative for Colorado's 3rd congressional district... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Boebert (more)

Oct'2009: Venkatesh Rao on the Gervais Principle of Organizations (with credit to Hugh MacLeod's company hierarchy image (Losers/ClueLess/Sociopaths)). The “sociopath” layer comprises the Darwinian/Protestant Ethic will-to-power types who drive an organization to function despite itself. The “clueless” layer is what William Whyte called the “OrganizationMan,” but the archetype inhabiting the middle has evolved a good deal since Whyte wrote his book (in the fifties). The losers are not social losers (as in the opposite of “cool”), but people who have struck bad bargains economically – giving up capitalist striving for steady paychecks... Sociopaths, in their own best interests, knowingly promote over-performing losers into Middle Management, groom under-performing losers into sociopaths, and leave the average bare-minimum-effort losers to fend for themselves... The least competent employees (but not all of them — only certain enlightened incompetents) will be promoted not to middle management, but fast-tracked through to senior Management. To the sociopath level. (more)