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<p>make things. make sense.</p><p>• making infrastructure for dense hypermedia at <a href="https://intertwingler.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">intertwingler.net</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> .</p><p>• writing a book connecting Christopher Alexander to software, serialized as a newsletter ($): <a href="https://buttondown.email/natureofsoftware" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">buttondown.email/natureofsoftw</span><span class="invisible">are</span></a></p>
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Post #1932591
from this morning: the language of software vendors and how their products &quot;let&quot; users do this or that maybe instead of praising companies for what their products &quot;let&quot; us do, consider all the things we *could* be doing that they&#39;re holding out on https://youtu.be/VuJmz-H0pE8
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Post #844014
in the 90s reeves and nass published a book (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/M/bo3618528.html) arguing that people treat computers like other people @mralancooper noted (in his 1999 book, which is how i know about it) that computers are assholes, so you&#39;re bound to pick up asshole behaviour if you hang around them too much (and now computers are lying sycophants so that&#39;s probably great) (said book btw: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0672326140)
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Post #844013
randomly just thought up &quot;sophie&#39;s yak-shave&quot; when you have more than one option for holes you have to go down to obtain some outcome you&#39;re trying to get
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Post #844012
streaming my final test run of my first of 7 Semantic REST lectures; still warming up; gonna start in a minute • https://stream.place/doriantaylor.com • https://twitch.tv/methodandstructure • https://youtu.be/mpKtYD36awY
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Post #844011
gonna do a quick impromptu stream while i drink coffee and design this order fulfillment UI • https://stream.place/doriantaylor.com • https://twitch.tv/methodandstructure • https://youtu.be/CcHSaqgTnnU
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Post #844010
mkay i am back from the pool and i have a full french press and i&#39;m gonna get turbojacked while i work on this some moar; goal is to get the design for this thing sorted over the next few hours • https://stream.place/doriantaylor.com • https://twitch.tv/methodandstructure • https://youtu.be/GB24KI0kqpA
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Post #844009
gonna do another planning session this morning on this checkout flow after working NINE HOURS last night to fix a bug in sense atlas so i can resume using it to do said planning • https://stream.place/doriantaylor.com • https://twitch.tv/methodandstructure • https://youtu.be/anMeXQlyjVM
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Post #844008
thanks for inviting me last night @mayintoronto!, also good to see you again @mhoye
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Post #844007
geriatric and very loud dishwasher has now run its course; begin the streams: • https://stream.place/doriantaylor.com • https://twitch.tv/methodandstructure.com • https://youtu.be/LGXZ8qt3qOY gonna go over the sense atlas spiel using the issue network i created earlier for this checkout/enrollment flow
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Post #844006
recorded this last friday, proximately in response to sam altman&#39;s funny definition of &quot;intelligence&quot; https://youtu.be/EPdMN5ofbSw
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Post #844005
cursed thought of the afternoon: webdav is underrated but the message payloads could use a syntax refresh, xml → json purely cosmetic for the purpose of getting devs to take interest in it lol; it should have the same semantics and you should be able to just apply a function to one to get the other anyway thought brought to you by thinking about the time i implemented a webdav server (back in like 2010?) and discovered windows xp&#39;s webdav fs driver was clearly parsing the xml with rege...