Dragon kill points or DKP are a semi-formal score-keeping system (loot system) used by guilds in massively multiplayer online games (MMO). Players in these games are faced with large scale challenges, or raids, which may only be surmounted through the concerted effort of dozens of players at a time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_kill_points (more)

Philip Rosedale biz (more)

Ron Jeffries: Scrum Bastard (play on Scrum Master). Someone posted a screed on Scrum.org’s forum. (more)

Ron Jeffries: Strawberries 10: Kind, Respectful, Helpful. Today I want to focus on the role those three attributes play in Agile Software Development. And they play together. They are more like three sides of a triangle, than three separable ideas (more)

Exclusive Interview with THE CURVE OF THE EARTH Hero Samuil Petrovitch (Metrozone Series). (more)

Sasha Chapin: Notes Against Note-Taking Systems. It’s not that I advocate for no note-taking. I just strongly believe in keeping it as elementary as possible, such that the note-taking itself doesn’t become the thrust of the endeavor. (more)

Richard P. Gabriel book, 1996, ISBN:0195121236 (more)

Incremental, Iterative

Kathy Sierra product goal: Oct'2012 talk: Now some of you may know I used to say words like “user AweSome ” or “user Kicking Ass” (Kick-Ass) or “user Passionate ” I don’t really tend to use those words anymore because it’s really easy to misinterpret that as yet another “we made the customer feel good” or ‘he likes us.” It’s too easy to focus back on the company again. This isn’t about focusing on what the user thinks of you. It’s about what the user is able to do, and to be able to become Bad-Ass. (more)

Cell Phone/Mobile based on Open Source software, Open Standards (more)

Apple Computer Mobile phone launched 2007. (more)

X-Washing refers to adding a little X to something to either (more)

My goal is to understand and create open-ended ecosystems through software. I've worked on 5 browsers and an OS. Now I'm building an open-ended tool-for-thought (subconscious app). http://gordonbrander.com/ (more)

Digital Gardener https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/

Didn't get an email warning this time, discovered cert had expired myself. Post (2021-10-17) Renewing SSL. (more)

Jessica Kerr: the Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming. Or: Collective problem solving in music, art, science, and software. At the end of this post is an audacious idea about the present and future of software development. In the middle are points about mental models: how important and how difficult they are. But first, a story of the origins of Opera. (more)

Cohere is a visual tool to create, connect and share Ideas. http://cohere.open.ac.uk/ (more)

Sociotechnical systems (STS) in organizational development is an approach to complex organizational work design that recognizes the interaction between people and technology in workplaces. The term also refers to the interaction between society's complex infrastructures and human behaviour. In this sense, society itself, and most of its substructures, are complex sociotechnical systems.[citation needed] The term sociotechnical systems was coined by Eric Trist, Ken Bamforth and Fred Emery, in the World War II era, based on their work with workers in English coal mines at the Tavistock Institute in London. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociotechnical_system (cf human system)

A founding father of HyperText. Now leveraging his ideas through the Bootstrap Institute. Core project is the Open Hyperdocument System. (more)

Our cat has been eating Fancy Feast as wet food since before we got him. He started on Classic-pate, now he eats more Grilled. (more)