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by phforms 3y ago
I think it is important that the designer gets a feel for the character and “vibe” of the book by actually reading the manuscript and gathering as much context information as they can, ideally in direct exchange with the author(s) to align
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by phforms 3y ago
Can relate. I get excited about so many things I want to do, but ultimately lack the energy and abilities (executive dysfunction) to do even a tiny fraction of them. And there is this constant self-pressure of “I should do so much more”, wh
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by phforms 3y ago
Thanks for sharing, I never heard about this before! The Wikipedia article on shape grammar has a link to an old website[1] from a workshop at MIT that links to many more interesting resources, including the “Shape” book by George Stiny you
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by phforms 3y ago
I actually understood Git much better as soon as I switched from a graphical interface (which was Git Tower at the time) to just using the Git CLI. I feel like the graphical interface/overhead obscured what was really going on and made
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by phforms 3y ago
Regarding UTF-8 encoding: “And a couple of important consequences: - You CAN’T determine the length of the string by counting bytes. - You CAN’T randomly jump into the middle of the string and start reading. - You CAN’T get a substring by c
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by phforms 3y ago
I actually frequently use the Tailwind docs ( https://tailwindcss.com/docs/ ) to lookup CSS property names and what they do, especially with flexbox and grid, since I mostly learned them through Tailwind. It’s just a nic
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by phforms 3y ago
I’ve been using Rectangle Pro for more than a year now and it works pretty great. However, I found that I don’t actually use snapping that much (maybe I’m just not used to it). My most used features is actually the move and resize modifier
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by phforms 3y ago
I think what the author describes has a lot to do with relaxation and letting intuition take over (which is how I believe this “flow” state is achieved), instead of thinking too hard or making too much conscious choices and putting the mind
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by phforms 3y ago
I think I get what the author trying to say. In my years as a graphic designer (mostly print), I intuitively knew when something “felt right”, and when that happened, I often have made something that I am still proud of today. It may have n
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by phforms 3y ago
As a teenager, I loved solving Nonograms in puzzle magazines on train rides or when I was bored, they are the perfect time killer. Somehow I forgot about them but recently rediscovered them through a Twitter post, which was a real pleasure.
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by phforms 3y ago
For anyone interested in “The Art of Prolog”, which seems to be quite expensive as a print book, there is an Open Access version available as a PDF at MIT Press: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262691635/the-art-of-prolog&
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by phforms 3y ago
In Clojure, where lazy evaluation is also the default (although only for sequences), someone recently wrote an in-depth article about the issues caused by this choice: https://clojure-goes-fast.com/blog/clojures-deadly-
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by phforms 3y ago
What helped me the most in programming and design was to shift my thinking away from trying to create a complete (or “perfect”) product right from the start and towards creating a minimal product with the most essential feature set first an
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by phforms 3y ago
You probably know this already, but if anyone wants to learn “old-school” SICP with Scheme via video lectures, I recommend MIT 6.001 (taught by Abelson and Sussman themselves): https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-001-structur
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by phforms 3y ago
Although NetLogo can be considered a Logo, there are some important differences, such as: - focus on agent-based modelling (feels more like a DSL to me) - lexical scoping of local variables and inputs instead of dynamic scoping - no “word”
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by phforms 3y ago
I use Doom Emacs with the Yamamoto port of Emacs [1] on MacOS (M1) and the startup time is quite slow: it takes around 6-7 sec. for the editor window to show up. It doesn’t bother me too much since I usually start it once a day and just nev
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by phforms 3y ago
This may still hold up 10 years later: as a European myself (Germany), I actually just learned from this post that the cheesecake factory is a real thing.
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by phforms 3y ago
There is a fairly recent (2020) article on the history of Logo, written by Cynthia Solomon (one of the original designers of Logo), Brian Harvey (UCBLogo, Snap!) and some other people: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145&#x2
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by phforms 3y ago
Seems like the development is much more focussed since last year and a lot is happening with 1.0 (and 64-bit support) being on the way possibly by the end of this year. [1][2] I am really looking forward to learn more about this language wh
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by phforms 3y ago
It’s really interesting how we shy away from some “hard” things, even though there is literally nothing at stake that could prevent us from doing them. Nothing life-threatening, no (or minimal) risk of physical or psychological damage, no s
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by phforms 3y ago
The post is from 2006. I wonder how he would have written it differently or not at all during the pandemic or if he was a refugee, for example. Of course, these are extreme cases, but they demonstrate that you have to be in a special positi
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by phforms 3y ago
I don’t think that great work and financial success are necessarily related; in fact, in many historical cases they were not. For me personally, I always have special and long-term projects on the side (that may or may not lead to “great wo
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by phforms 3y ago
re-frame has a beautiful introduction that made the concepts crystal clear to me as someone who never used a state-management framework before: https://day8.github.io/re-frame/re-frame/ The API documentation lists
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by phforms 3y ago
I have only worked with ReScript for about a year before switching to ClojureScript (which was a better fit for my project), but I really enjoyed the experience and genuinely wish it would become a more popular alternative to TypeScript for
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by phforms 3y ago
Funny, because I thought so too at first, but then I actually enjoyed clicking through almost all of the bubbles to explore what’s behind them. Not sure if a text list would have done the same to me. The categories gave me just enough infor
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by phforms 3y ago
It really makes a night and day difference when you are taking notes for studying, research, designing or other kinds of focussed mental activity that require things like pulling information together, resurfacing past insights, (re)evaluati
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by phforms 3y ago
I actually found it surprisingly comfortable to read, but of course, everyone is different. You can always use the browser console to disable/change the `background-color` (in this case also `background-image`) CSS property of the body
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by phforms 3y ago
> hamburger menus are the junk drawers of software Love this metaphor. Hiding the main nav behind a generic button always gives me the impression that the designers don’t really see it as an important part of the website. Imagine you’d h
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by phforms 3y ago
The only thing that really annoys me about this website is the fixed vibrant background images that interfere with the text. Otherwise, I find it quite refreshing to see something different. I have seen much worse typography on “professiona
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by phforms 3y ago
As much as I agree how important it is to design software with a type 2 mindset, I believe that there is also the trap of not taking any risks because you constantly fear it would not serve your users well enough, they would never use it, i

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