Talking Heads dude (more)

Talking Heads were an American rock band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991.[1] The band comprised David Byrne (lead vocals and guitar), Chris Frantz (drums and backing vocals), Tina Weymouth (bass and backing vocals) and Jerry Harrison (keyboards, guitar, and backing vocals). Other musicians also regularly made appearances in concert and on the group's albums. The New Wave style of Talking Heads combined elements of Punk Rock, art rock, funk, avant-garde, pop music, World Music, and Americana. Frontman and songwriter David Byrne contributed neurotic, whimsical lyrics to the band's songs, and emphasized their showmanship through various multimedia projects and performances. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_Heads (more)

a self-improvement course by Garrett Daun of Command Z. https://radicalundoing.com/ (more)

Dorian Taylor: Conference. The 2023 Information Architecture Conference (née Summit) was held in New Orleans.... My own remark is that information architecture, to the extent that it is something solid enough to point at, has always been concerned with the structuring and organizing of information itself, as a substance in its own right. Information architecture, as I wrote many years ago, is about helping people understand their situations, and find the things they’re searching for. (sense-making) (more)

Dorian Taylor: Motivation & Rationale. (for Summer of Protocols) The problem that I'm trying to solve—or at least contribute in some small way to a solution—has been notoriously hard to articulate... (more)

Dorian Taylor: The Nerden of Dorking Paths. ...over the last year and change, I have identified two projects: one for a product and another for a tool to help deliver a service. These are both indefinite as to when they will be “done enough” to be merchantable. They are, to refresh our memories... (more)

Venkatesh Rao:Text is All You Need. (This essay is part of the Mediocre Computing series.)... I guess we have our first significant, year-defining news of 2023...the initial reactions of the Bing “Sydney” AI (LLM) chatbot. (more)

Dorian Taylor: Confluence. I will be speaking at the Information Architecture Conference in New Orleans which runs from the 28th of March to April Fool’s. This year I will be expounding upon The Specificity Gradient, a conceptual framework I came up with some time ago (I want to say 2009 or 2010) (2022-09-10 Taylor The Specificity Gradient) (more)

Dorian Taylor: The Specificity Gradient. The specificity gradient is a term I came up with for a principle that I have held for many years now, that software is, as I said on a podcast back in 2010, a very verbose, very precise incantation specifying how an information system ought to behave. What gets written down as software code is the result of a long chain of deliberation, passing through the hands of numerous stakeholders from sharply different disciplines (more)

Dorian Taylor: Dog Days. The Summer of Protocols, which started in May, is close to ending its run. We spent the last week of July at a retreat just outside Seattle, mainly partaking in meet-and-greet exercises and collaboration sessions, as well as a focus on an ur-product that encapsulates the entire program, and the impact we want it to have. (more)

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John Cutler: TBM 231: Productivity (The Clash). When times are good, companies develop a mix of good habits and bad habits. When times get tough, they can no longer get by with bad habits. And in many cases, the habits that were a good fit for boom times are no longer a good fit for leaner times. (more)

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

aka Pharo Smalltalk

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)

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)

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)

[[Riccardo Mazzarini's GitHub profile (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)

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)