“Doubt explanations - Derek Sivers”
“Stop asking people for explanations, and ignore the ones given.”
This is absolutely key when doing user research.
“Trajectory - by Dorian Taylor - The Making of Making Sense”
“Thoughts on Print Equation Layout”
Linked to this earlier but it deserves another push: on maths layout, web standards dysfunction, and browser vendor priorities.
“Accidental Dismissal of Overlays: A Common Mobile Usability Problem”
“Playacting genius: the performative logic of reasoning from first principles – Baldur Bjarnason”
I wrote this out of frustration with the self-important types cosplaying smart who run rampant in software dev.
“Form, function, and the giant gulf between drawing a picture and understanding the world”
“Thoughts on Print Equation Layout”
Interesting essay that’s ostensibly about maths layout on the web but is actually also about dysfunction in web standards and browser dev.
“Doing the Work. How to Write When You Suck - by Cory Doctorow - Sep, 2022 - Medium”
A loooot of people are confusing “reasons from first principles” with “fast learning autodidact”. Going from zero to expertise in six months is not in any real way discovering a field by reasoning from first principles. You’ve just speedrun a field from a logical starting point.
‘Spotting Misinformation in “Studies Have Shown” – Chelsea Troy’
“If A Third Of What We Do Is Waste – Why Can’t We See It? – Paul Taylor”
If a post in my feed cites Deming then I gotta post it. It’s a rule.
“Replit - History++ - A Better Way to Do Versioning”
Interesting experiment. It seems to use OTs, which probably means that it relies on the server as a source of truth? It wouldn’t have the distributed qualities of git
“A new collaboration with Adobe”
So, let’s hope that as far as you’re concerned, Figma is feature-complete, because that’s them done in terms of long term innovation
“Comments - Did GoogleAI Just Snooker One of Silicon Valley’s Sharpest Minds?”
“We Spoke With the Last Person Standing in the Floppy Disk Business – Eye on Design”
This was more interesting than I expected.
“Always time for the important things in life – Burningbird”
The responses on Twitter to The Verge’s redesign are like from a parallel universe. The tech punditry seems to love it. Meanwhile here I am finding the colour choices unreadable (white on black and blue on grey) and the lack of a visual hierarchy turns the front page into noise
I see that The Verge has decided it doesn’t like having readers. Chaotic and unreadable front page design.