Model of memory/thinking being driven heavily by associations/connections between thoughts/symbols (Link As You Think). (more)

Ward Cunningham idea around Smallest Federated Wiki. (more)

Aza Raskin (born February 1, 1984) is the co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology[1] and of the Earth Species Project.[2] He is also a writer, entrepreneur, inventor, and interface designer.[3][4][5] He is the son of Jef Raskin, a human–computer interface expert who was the initiator of the Macintosh project at Apple. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aza_Raskin (more)

Larry Tesler at PARC devised insights for a modeless word processor from the feedback gathered from a user test with newly-hired Sylvia Adams, where she was asked to ad lib some gestures to correct proofreading marks on the digital text.[5] This test convinced Tesler's manager Bill English of the problems with their previous modal interface... Interface expert Jef Raskin came out strongly against modes, writing, "Modes are a significant source of errors, confusion, unnecessary restrictions, and complexity in interfaces." Later he notes, " 'It is no accident that swearing is denoted by #&%!#$&,' writes my colleague, Dr. James Winter; it is 'what a typewriter used to do when you typed numbers when the Caps Lock was engaged'." Raskin dedicated his book The Humane Interface to describe the principles of a modeless interface for computers. Those principles were implemented in the Canon Cat and Archy systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(user_interface)#Modeless

Ghost is a powerful app for new-media creators to publish, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions to members. https://ghost.org/ (more)

When setting up WikiFlux I set up IndieAuth using Twitter. (more)

A focused environment where you can write freely. MarkDown TextEditor/Word Processor https://ia.net/writer (more)

aka ThreadReaderApp - save a Twitter Thread (just the thread from the original single author) to a single doc. https://threadreaderapp.com/ (more)

Cost (just for classes) of College Education. (more)

Issue Tracker ASP, $11/user/month (more)

aka burned out; traditionally associated with DayJob, but being used more widely in 2020s; can you distinguish it from despair, disenchantment, alienation, angst?

meta-Conspiracy Theory which says that a simple Conspiracy Theory never quite seems to fit all the evidence because there are always multiple cabals engaging in conspiracies at cross-purposes. And even a single Conspiracy isn't so much a Team as a Coalition. (more)

Organize, relate, and discover everything in your life on your knowledge graph, all in one workspace. 100% free and open source. Integrates with your existing workflows. (PIM/PKM) https://unigraph.dev/ (more)

I gave up ((2021-03-01) Massive Server Upgrade) and asked friend for help in setting up wildcard-SSL. She, who had nudged me to Linode years ago, suggesting after some initial work, that I move to Digital Ocean. So doing that. (more)

How We Got 10 Million Teens to Read Fiction on Their Phones (more)

John Ohno: everybody sort of knows that DARPA was responsible for funding the research that led to the internet, but what people largely don't know is that this was part of a big chunk of funding approved in 1957/1958 for blue-sky research into improving STEM education. (more)

Twitter Thread maniac. https://www.notion.so/the-best-of-visakanv-s-twitter-threads-1a6ed25cf06e49e388a303903d597b73 (more)

MarkSafranski: my eclectic summer reading. First on deck is the graphic novel VERISSIMUS by DonaldJRobertson. (more)

Jess Martin: Render Recap - (2022-08-16) BetaWorks Render Tools for Thinking: where's the scene at? (more)

Steven Johnson: The Blind Spot. In the very first installment of this series on creative workflows, I talked about the early obsession I had during my college years with HyperCard (more)