Semi-dismissive career advice. See Learning Programming. (more)

EBook "standard" from IDPF (more)

Text Editor from GitHub. https://atom.io/ Sunset Dec15'2022, being forked as PulsarEdit. (more)

aka Object Oriented DataBase, ODB, OODB, OODBMS (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 1/19/23: Flipped Numbers. It was a quiet week. All the longer term news was as one would expect. That is good news. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 1/12/23: Unexpected Spike in Deaths. Quite a lot of deaths got reported by quite a lot of different states this week. Case numbers did not spike, and instead actively declined. What’s going on? It is right after Christmas and New Years, which means the least reliable reporting of the year, and no one cares much anymore – Indiana and Illinois didn’t bother reporting anything on either front – so the obvious explanation is this is a lot of backlog dumping with the new year....What I am not worried about, given the case numbers, is that this wave is going to get out of hand (more)

aka Feature Flag, see also A/B Test. Feature Toggles (often also refered to as Feature Flags) are a powerful technique, allowing teams to modify system behavior without changing code. They fall into various usage categories, and it's important to take that categorization into account when implementing and managing toggles. Toggles introduce complexity. We can keep that complexity in check by using smart toggle implementation practices and appropriate tools to manage our toggle configuration, but we should also aim to constrain the number of toggles in our system. (more)

Measurement with a goal (more)

For me, Planning Is A processing of making decisions about what actions to take in the future, and making predictions about the outcomes of those actions. (more)

Summary: Break your customers into Segments, and try to focus on 1 (more)

Amy Hoy model/process of picking a market segment of ideal customers, and learning their biggest problems, vocabulary/mindset, etc. (more)

Customer who feels the pain you address, values your solution, has money to spend, would be very disappointed if you went away, will provide word of mouth, etc. (more)

Adrienne Barnes process of building a rich/actionable persona of your ideal customer. (more)

A Hypermedia Pattern Language. Since Human Systems are Complex Systems from Civilization All the Way Down to human brains, our sense-making and collaboration and communication systems should leverage associative/composable media. (more)

An open source platform for building a writing space on the web... WriteFreely is built around writing... Reach outside your own site with federation via ActivityPub. WriteFreely lets anyone on Mastodon, Pleroma, or any ActivityPub-enabled service follow your blog, bookmark your posts, and share them with their followers. https://writefreely.org/ (more)

ClojureScript is a compiler for Clojure that targets JavaScript. It emits JavaScript code which is compatible with the advanced compilation mode of the Google Closure optimizing compiler. https://clojurescript.org/ (more)

Mob programming (informally mobbing) is a software development approach where the whole team works on the same thing, at the same time, in the same space, and at the same computer. This is similar to pair programming where two people sit at the same computer and collaborate on the same code at the same time. With mob programming, the collaboration is extended to everyone on the team, while still using a single computer for writing the code and inputting it into the code base. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mob_programming (more)

series of TimeLine-s from Big Bang to the present. (more)

‘The Sims’ Creator Is Releasing an NFT Game That Plays on Your Subconscious. Proxi will let users own their memory creations as NFTs, and even profit from the sale of user-created items within the game. According to Bloomberg, “virtually everything” in the game can take the form of an NFT that can be resold to other users. (more)

One of the Organization Models avoiding bureaucracy, hierarchy, or Positional Power - Network of AdHoc groups http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhocracy (more)