A Ron Jeffries concept for agile product development: a very small idea, and one that is so solid that once you get it, you have it, and if you don’t get it, you don’t. We need ideas that are small, that can only be adopted as a whole, and when adopted, they make enough of a difference to stick. (more)

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Anxiety is an emotion characterized by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil, often accompanied by nervous behavior, such as pacing back and forth, somatic complaints, and rumination.[1] It is the subjectively unpleasant feelings of dread over anticipated events, such as the feeling of imminent death.[2] Anxiety is not the same as fear, which is a response to a real or perceived immediate threat,[3] whereas anxiety is the expectation of future threat.[3] Anxiety is a feeling of uneasiness and worry, usually generalized and unfocused as an overreaction to a situation that is only subjectively seen as menacing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety

WikiWord naming means that you can type a phrase that matters to you as a WikiWord, and eventually you'll make a page for it, and discover that you've made 5 previous pages referencing that term. So now they all hang together. (more)

Rosano: Why I'm leaving iOS development to go fully web after 12 years. After twelve years on the App Store, I've decided it's time to go all-in on the web and would like to share what that means and outline the tradeoffs involved. (more)

Rosano: 100 steps to success. This is a blog of steps taken towards a sustainable income as an independent creator. It might be worth considering them a 'hundred experiments' as most were approached with a 'what if' mindset than a deterministic one.

Glitch and DigitalOcean make deploying your apps even easier. (screenshot of the Glitch editor showing the "Deploy to DigitalOcean button") (more)

independent tools for thought creator? https://rosano.ca/ https://twitter.com/rosano (more)

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Men and Women are different http://i.imgur.com/56FnX.jpg (more)

Whiplash is a 2014 American psychological drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle, and starring Miles Teller, J. K. Simmons, Paul Reiser, and Melissa Benoist. The story follows ambitious jazz drummer Andrew Neiman (Teller), who is pushed to his limit by his abusive and ruthlessly strict bandleader (Simmons) at the fictional Shaffer Conservatory. After Chazelle completed the script of Whiplash, Right of Way Films and Blumhouse Productions helped him turn 15 pages of the script into an 18-minute short film, also titled Whiplash. The short film received acclaim after debuting at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, which attracted investors to produce the complete version of the script... While attending Princeton High School, writer-director Damien Chazelle was in a "very competitive" jazz band and drew on the dread he felt in those years.[5] He based the conductor, Terence Fletcher, on his former band instructor (who died in 2003) but "pushed it further", adding elements of Buddy Rich and other band leaders known for their harsh treatment.[5] Chazelle said he wrote the film "initially in frustration" while trying to get his musical La La Land off the ground. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiplash_(2014_film)

A source-control branching model, where developers collaborate on code in a single branch called ‘trunk’ (main/master), resist any pressure to create other long-lived development branches by employing documented techniques. They therefore avoid merge hell, do not break the build, and live happily ever after. (more)

Continuous integration (CI) is the practice, in software engineering, of merging all developer working copies with a shared mainline several times a day. It was first named and proposed by Grady Booch in his 1991 method,[1] although practices at this time did not yet support full automation, or the performance of integrations more than a few times a day. It was adopted as part of Extreme Programming (XP), which did advocate integrating more than once per day, perhaps as many as tens of times per day. The main aim of CI is to prevent integration problems, referred to as "integration hell" in early descriptions of XP. CI isn't universally accepted as an improvement over frequent integration, so it is important to distinguish between the two as there is disagreement about the virtues of each. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration (more)

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Venkatesh Rao: Tools. There are two kinds of tools: user-friendly tools, and physics-friendly tools. User-friendly tools wrap a domain around the habits of your mind via a user-experience metaphor, while physics-friendly tools wrap your mind around the phenomenology of a domain via an engineer-experience metaphor. (more)

Andrew Yang: The data are clear: The boys are not all right. Here is one of the biggest problems facing America: Boys and men across all regions and ethnic groups have been failing, both absolutely and relatively, for years. (more)

Gordon Brander: Generating your own Oblique Strategies. Here’s an afternoon hack I’ve been playing with—a procedural generator that helps you write your own Oblique Strategies by generating Meta-Oblique Strategies. It’s a little Python script that uses Tracery to generate the beginnings of a creative prompt. Run the script… (more)

Rosano: Tools for musical thought. Applying my 'note-taking' approach (of capture, organize, and purge) to sound and musical ideas. (more)

GeePaw Hill: The Baseless Critique Of Living Branchlessly. The idea behind branching is that it provides advantages in situations where a code change is large. The idea behind non-branching is not to enter those situations. These two views seem very difficult to reconcile. (trunk-based development) (more)

Rosano: Platform puzzle pieces for sustainable community. This year, I started to prioritize community building, which led to the creation of the Ephemerata newsletter and The Café forum (see My mother's gift for some origins). Seeking a hub to house everything and make it accessible with one account, I was determined to make it work with discussion forum software (more)