The ship in Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy holding all the people with Bullshit Jobs, such as the telephone sanitizers, account executives, hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, public relations executives, and management consultants. (more)

Ash Maurya framing of getting early validation

Melissa Perri book: Escaping the Build Trap ISBN:9781491973790

Emergent Tokyo: DESIGNING THE SPONTANEOUS CITY ISBN:1951541324 https://oroeditions.com/product/emergent-tokyo (more)

see audio, syncopated music, music sharing, musical instrument, live performance, etc. (more)

aka Split Test Experiment (more)

A P2P secure network protocol. Intended for sharing only within a smallish group, not with the net at large. (more)

McSweeney's Lists Donald Trump's 1056 Atrocities. Early in President Trump’s term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, and crimes, and it felt urgent then to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten.

GNU Guix (/ɡiːks/[2]) is a functional cross-platform package manager and a tool to instantiate and manage Unix-like operating systems, based on the Nix package manager. Configuration and package recipes are written in Guile Scheme. GNU Guix is the default package manager of the GNU Guix System distribution.[3] Differing from traditional package managers, Guix (like Nix) utilizes a purely functional deployment model where software is installed into unique directories generated through cryptographic hashes. All dependencies for each software are included within each hash.[4][5] This solves the problem of dependency hell,[6] allows multiple versions of the same software to coexist and makes packages portable and reproducible. Performing scientific computations in a Guix setup has been proposed as a promising response to the replication crisis... Guix packages are defined through functional Guile Scheme APIs specifically designed for package management. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Guix (more)

designing user interfaces, online brands and information architectures for some of the UK's biggest companies (BBC, etc.) (more)

LÖVE is an awesome framework (game engine) you can use to make 2D computer games in Lua. It's free, open-source, and works on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS. https://love2d.org/

Decker is a multimedia platform for creating and sharing interactive documents, with sound, images, hypertext, and scripted behavior. You can try it in your web browser right now. Decker builds on the legacy of HyperCard and the visual aesthetic of classic MacOS https://beyondloom.com/decker/ (more)

David Thompson: Lisp: Icing or Cake? The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024 ended one week ago. 48 games were submitted. For the first time ever, Guile came out on top with the most submissions! There’s a very specific reason for this outcome. 11 out of the 15 Guile games were built for the web with Hoot, a Scheme-to-WebAssembly compiler that I work on at the Spritely Institute. (more)

tools for thought researcher https://jessmart.in/ (more)

An attempt to integrate a bunch of past pages, imagining an ecosystem that includes all the legacy crap, but supports a way for a network enlightenment to emerge.... (more)

first Product Manager hired for Adding Product To Your Startup Team. Should probably think of them as CPO.

When you start Growing Your Startup Tech Product Team, one or both of your Founders typically fills the Product Management role. (more)

DXOS provides developers with everything they need to build real-time, collaborative apps which run entirely on the client, and communicate peer-to-peer, without servers. DXOS applications work offline, share state instantly when online, and leave end-users in control of their data and privacy. https://dxos.org/ local-first collaborationware

Jess Martin says Alan Kay's advice for inventing the future has a surprising nuance: build it quickly. (more)

Jess Martin: Going Back to Go Forward. Last Friday was my last day at DXOS. (more)