Folks on the TL who love software (not necessarily the corporate job workflows of resolving jira tickets), what do you love about the medium?

And speaking of Blacksky ... the code doesn't write itself, the servers cost money, and so does moderation & trust and safety. So please support Blacksky! Here's their OpenCollective link. opencollective.com/blacksky

Who are the people who TEACH the skill of creating explanations? Not theories about how the brain works. Not pedagogy philosophy. Not cognitive science lineage. Not how people learn but the actual explanatory skill of making good explanations.

Here’s a new, super-interactive essay I wrote about making interactions really great for repeated use, motor memory, and so on. I just… love this kind of stuff? I don’t know. My hope is that you’ll fall in love with this, too. *a big screen very, very recommended* aresluna.org/show-your-ha...

Who is the one person to follow on AI who knows how open ai & anthropic's models work underneath deeply and help deconstruct the innovation they come up with without the hype

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

For some people starting a business is mostly a means to security, a risky one. For some its a way to escape indignity of the job market and corporate hierarchy.

Pernosco Omniscient Debugger pernos.co/about/vision... pernos.co/about/basics/ "Pernosco can trace dataflow backwards in time, from where a variable has an incorrect value back to where that variable was set instantly"

ClimateTriage - Impactful open source contributions climatetriage.com Launch your open source journey in climate and sustainability. Explore current Good First Issues from open source initiatives focused on protecting natural resources. @opensustaintech.bsky.social

You are looking for the field of Cognitive Systems Engineering www.adaptivecapacitylabs.com/what-is-cogn...

Today, I'm excited to announce our next title! "Augment" is a forthcoming book featuring a collection of essays on the future of personal computing — specifically, on the kind we’d like to see more of in the future, and the ideas that might help us get there.

New video on Interface Studies: The Receding User: Designing for Absence Interface design spent sixty years closing the distance between user and action. Certain aspects of generative AI and the software built around it suggest otherwise. youtube.com/watch?v=C0aC...

You know what's the biggest problem of tech meetups nowdays, atleast the kind I'm seeing in Bangalore, Mumbai Its filled to the brim with clout chasing/prestige chasing corporate credential flashing types

The Making of Indian Statistics | Alter Magazine altermag.com/articles/the... The scrolling animation is something I've never come across from an Indian editorial, so good!

[Open Access] Learning Environments Design Reading Series pressbooks.pub/learningenvi... Learning to Solve Problems: A Handbook for Designing Problem-Solving Learning Environments by David Jonassen staibabussalamsula.ac.id/wp-content/u...

Enhancing Science Education Exploring Knowledge Practices with Legitimation Code Theory Edited By Margaret A.L. Blackie, Hanelie Adendorff, Marnel Mouton legitimationcodetheory.com/wp-content/u...

Who in UX is the best person to help understand the entire tooling for private LLMs? Like the UX behind each step of making unstructured data usable for on prem self-hosted private LLMs?

I wish there was plato's allegory of the cave style of dialogue book for specifically for just two regular guys reconstructing major scientific and engineering concepts relevant to making flagship products of S&P 500

Gaming Cancer: How Building and Playing Video Games Can Accelerate Scientific Discovery by Jeff Yoshimi www.amazon.in/Gaming-Cance... Gaming Cancer is an instruction manual for engineering games that motivate users to strain and sweat to find cancer cures.

Modern engineering is already distributed across software, standards, notation, workflows, instruments, libraries, solvers, checklists, and teams. Closed-book exams pretend engineering is still an isolated skull activity.

Tempeh 51g of low fat vegetarian protein in a single plate

How VCX Put Anthropic & OpenAI Into Public Markets www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-4A... fundrise.com/vcx VCX is a NYSE-listed public venture fund that gives you access to top private tech companies. A publicly traded venture capital fund!

Some cool UI for AI explorations by Dan Saffer's students in reusing chat history memories by drag and drop in chat sessions Control over Context. Exploring User-Led Memory Mechanisms | by Dave Song | UI for AI | Medium medium.com/ui-for-ai/co...

I was wondering if book authors almost certainly forget plenty of details from their own books hehe

Designing for forgiveness: How to create error-tolerant interfaces by Tetiana Sydorenko "Exploring how to design interfaces that feel intuitive and forgiving, even when users make mistakes" uxdesign.cc/designing-fo...

Is there a UX book written specifically for failure paths, edge cases. Like one that has exercises for building a sense of creating good flows for recovering from errors. Think UX equivalent of How Software Fails : The Hidden Laws of Complex Systems by Engin Yöyen leanpub.com/how-software...

I once saw an interview with Anthony Hopkins who said that actors struggle with learning bad dialogue, but memorizing good dialogue is easy, which is part of why actors love Shakespeare

How to hold the entire user flow of 100+ screens for all the features and their taxonomies in your working memory i.e how to keep in mind the cascading global effects of the local parts of the application as you are iterating on them

Eterna is a citizen-science game where ordinary online players design RNA molecules for medical research by solving puzzles. eternagame.org play.google.com/store/apps/d...

"You'll see how an electron microscope was built in a home shop, how an X-ray backscatter system works, how to make aerogel, and many other hi-tech projects" DIY Scanning Electron Microscope - Overview by Ben Krasnow www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdjY... Wow!

So there's a simple ROI for pitching design services even in AI era. Can your genai workflow or team help your customers comfortably get their desired outcomes consistently reliably all the time by controlling it predictably within their context's limits?

One huge advantage that a physical product based business has over software in terms of marketing is that a physical storefront can be in a good location and get footfall simply because it is in a shared space beside another shop the person could be browsing

Everything that affords human control over an activity predictably is design, like that which makes it possible for human mind and body, within its comfortable limits to take action is design's domain I think, not engineering or sciences.

A software developer or product design freelancer can't pitch their services as "you'll recoup your investment in my service by xyz time or outcome" that a gtm sales freelance guy still can, but then the gtm guy can't promise you sales without having a quality product built in the first place

"Let your constraints become your curriculum." So true for learning in general. "You don't need to become a different person to build.." Yes... but learning changes us. Also, building products requires understanding others wants or needs. Learning this makes a better product and changes you.

Instead of waiting for enough life experience, you let the act of building generate the friction that teaches you what matters. Let your constraints become your curriculum.

Respect people’s limits and bend the system to fit those limits Design in a nutshell

x.com/builtformars... Built for Mars : A collection of UX case studies builtformars.com/case-studies Such a useful platform, it has design case studies from docusign, apple, nike, monzo and he has also categorized it by industries and ux objectives

Some ideas for solving the conundrum of skill stagnation and career lock-in due to toxic jobs with long hours We need a hiring market platform that doesn't filter via pedigrees, for example @wh0sumit's rightfit.so and @nishantjosh's app.skillsync.wiki

Yesterday a friend had invited me to his friend group. There was one discussion there about how they were working 12+ hours a day and because of that they don't have time to upskill, to learn new skills, to work on side projects.

Is this common in freelancing? What can be done to avoid it? x.com/Hartdrawss/s...

The Chinese Internet by Spencer Chang substack.com/home/post/p-... "In December & January, I spent over a month in China. What follows is a condensed breakdown of all the observations I had. I’m splitting them up into 3 sections: physical culture, digital culture & craft/creative culture"

uwu we are just smol beans doing some chonky peeping

the difference between "technology" and "design" is "this is the only way it'll work" vs "you could just make different decisions and get different outcomes"

a while ago i ruminated on how software is always marketed in terms of features, which conveniently represent on one hand a capability for the user, and on the other a unit of work for programmers but a raw capability says nothing about how the software behaves doriantaylor.com/distilled-ca...

my inclination is to shift the focus from technology (which is developing raw capability) to *design*, which is about decisions taken within a given capability envelope that qualitatively alter how it acts upon the world by emphasizing some parts of it and de-emphasizing others

for the most part writing code isn't inventing novel technology any more than writing an essay is inventing the printing press to the extent that your product genuinely introduces any novel capability at all, there are a hundred times as many decisions around how it's packaged and provisioned

most software dev is applications and app dev is almost all gluing together libraries with ui; you notice when you invent something novel (to you at least) indeed one explanation for why LLMs work for code at all is that they pick up on patterns that repeat themselves all over the corpus

as somebody who has been making software for nearly 30 years, the relationship of any particular software artifact to "technology" is tenuous, in my opinion some artifacts are more technology-ey than others most i would say (like apps) just rearticulate various mundane business processes