Cedric Chin: Reality Without Frameworks. When you’re inexperienced, frameworks are wonderful things. (more)

Cedric Chin: A Framework for Putting Mental Models to Practice. A Framework for Putting Mental Models to Practice is a series of posts that examines the notion of putting 'mental models' to practice in one's life, in the pursuit of learning better decision making. (more)

Cedric Chin: The Land and Expand Strategy for Reading. ...reading in service of career goals (more)

Cedric Chin: Peak. Professor K. Anders Ericsson has had a very accomplished career studying the forms and origins of expertise. Early in his life he worked under renowned polymath Herbert Simon. (more)

An immutable in-memory database and Datalog query engine in Clojure and ClojureScript. https://github.com/tonsky/datascript (more)

http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ (more)

some of my favorite bassists (more)

RESTful Web APIs book by Leonard Richardson and Mike Amundsen, with a forward by Sam Ruby. ISBN:1449358063 https://www.crummy.com/writing/RESTful-Web-APIs/ (more)

Frank Chimero: The Web’s Grain. It is a companion to What Screens Want, a previous essay on designing natively for screens (2013-11-14-ChimeroWhatScreensWant) Here we have a very vanilla website. No styles, just markup. All defaults. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid19 6/9/22: Nice. Things seem to have peaked in the Northeast once again. Nice. Things are getting worse in the South as the summer hits. Not as nice, not that unexpected. At this point we can pattern match. You know what else is nice? Not having to care about the pandemic (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Air Conditioner Repair. A few weeks ago, the in-wall air conditioner in our bedroom ceased to function. (more)

Mike Caulfield: Trump University's Online Materials Are a Lot Better Than Your University’s Online Materials. Yesterday, Roger Schank (famous cognitive scientist and learning theorist) released some of the work he and his team did for Trump University back in 2005 or so. (more)

cf opinionated, affordance

An affordance is what a user can do with an object based on the user’s capabilities. As such, an affordance is not a “property” of an object (like a physical object or a User Interface). Instead, an affordance is defined in the relation between the user and the object. (design; Opinionated)

potential/affordance for composition

Tiago Forte on why Tagging Is Broken in EverNote and everywhere else. There is an axiom in the productivity world that goes something like this: “Tags are inherently superior to folders” (more)

Justin Falcone: The Origin of HyperCard in the Breakdown of the Bicycle for the Mind. This is a transcript of a recently discovered talk presented at ManhattanBBS, a NYC tech meetup, in November of 1990. (That's the joke/setup.) What is it that we like about computers? (more)

Problem Details for HTTP APIs https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7807

Frank Chimero: What Screens Want. What does it mean to natively design for screens? (more)

Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby book on ReST-ful Web Services ISBN:0596529260. ROA = Resource Oriented Architecture. (more)