see Gwern Branwen

Ron Jeffries: The Agile Ecology. There is a connection between the 17 old men who had a meeting in Snowbird, and the poor devils working in the code mines of insurance companies in Ohio, suffering under the heel of the boot of the draconian sons of expletives who imposed a bastardized version of something called Scrum on them. We started this thing and we should at least feel sad that it has sometimes gone so far off the rails. And we should do what we can to keep it from going more off the rails, and to help some people get back on the rails. (more)

Positioning book by April Dunford ISBN:1999023005 https://www.aprildunford.com/obviously-awesome (more)

Cory Doctorow: The true, tactical significance of Project 2025. I've only read a single writer who immediately grasped the true significance of Project 2025: The American Prospect's Rick Perlstein, which is unsurprising, given Perlstein's stature as one of the left's most important historians of right wing movements. (more)

Andy Matuschak on Doing-centric explanatory mediums: board game instruction manuals and an unusual Figma document. ...another problem with books, and specifically with books meant to help you learn a skill: the medium makes it difficult to collapse the distance between prose and action. Books rarely involve doing what they’re about. (learning by doing) (more)

Andy Matuschak various notes' excerpts on Note-Taking and Writing... (more)

Andy Matuschak frame for a polished entry in his NoteTaking. (more)

a framing of future computers as more than interactive media

Alan Kay concept related to the Dynabook. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1301186 (more)

software engineer, designer, and researcher. I work on technologies that expand what people can think and do. (ThinkingTools) https://andymatuschak.org/ Was at Khan Academy, Apple. (more)

Using Stripe.com Checkout For Your SaaS Subscription handling. I'm going through this right now as part of (2020-10-12) Building user management in WikiFlux, and am irritated enough to want to reset my brain.... (more)

"center" of Low-Rock cluster: AKACOD, Bourbon Princess, etc. Morphine was an American rock band formed by Mark Sandman, Dana Colley, and Jerome Deupree in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1989. Drummer Billy Conway replaced Deupree as the band's live drummer in 1991. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphine_(band)

Morphine-descended group. (more)

Jon Udell pokes Jeff Jarvis, Dan Gillmor, and Dan Froomkin: Can you help us route around the damage and find other ways to reach the undecided and/or apathetic who don't read Big Journalism (Big Media) anyway? (more)

Andy Matuschak: Some quick notes following Apple’s 2023-06-05 Vision Pro announcement. I’m mainly interested in the user interface and the computing paradigm. What does Apple imagine we’ll be doing with these devices, and how will we do it? (more)

Andy Matuschak: Twitter is a water cooler (more)

2D BarCode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code (more)

XHTML/MicroFormat version of VCard (more)

Maggie Appleton: Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers. This is a talk I presented at the Local-first Conference in Berlin, May 2024. For the last ~year I've been keeping a close eye on how language models capabilities meaningfully change the speed, ease, and accessibility of software development. The slightly bold theory I put forward in this talk is that we're on a verge of a golden age of local, home-cooked software and a new kind of developer – what I've called the barefoot developer. (more)

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed is a book by James Scott critical of a system of beliefs he calls authoritarian high modernism, that centers around confidence in the ability to design and operate society in accordance with scientific laws.[1][2] It was released in March 1998, with a paperback version in February 1999. The book catalogues schemes which states impose upon populaces that are convenient for the state since they make societies "legible", but are not necessarily good for the people. For example, census data, standardized weights and measures, and uniform languages make it easier to tax and control the population. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State ISBN:978-0-30007016-3; see Legibility (more)