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John Cutler: TBM 231: Productivity (The Clash). When times are good, companies develop a mix of good habits and bad habits. When times get tough, they can no longer get by with bad habits. And in many cases, the habits that were a good fit for boom times are no longer a good fit for leaner times. (more)

aka low-fi - low-fidelity, low-quality (of reproduction); also local-first

aka Pharo Smalltalk

[[Riccardo Mazzarini's GitHub profile (more)

Szymon Kaliski, Adam Wiggins, James Lindenbaum of Ink and Switch: on End-user Programming. In their computing lives, power users often want simple extensibility. (more)

Maggie Appleton: Programming Portals. In the mid 1980's the world of computer interfaces cracked in two, leaving a gaping divide between two opposing paradigms. Most of us consider GUIs as an enormous leap forward for computing accessibility and usability (more)

Jared Forsyth: In Search of a Local-First Database. Recently, I've been re-energized in my search by the wonderful Local-first software article by Ink and Switch, and then by James Long's dotConf talk, CRDTs for Mortals. (more)

Chad Kohalyk: LoFi software and inverting our relationship to The Cloud. The CTO of my company appeared in a recent Wired article about Local-First Software. Gotta say, it is pretty exciting to be in the pages of Wired. “LoFi” is something Fission is trying to enable with the protocols and SDK we have been working on (more)

Good Services: How to Design Services that Work by Lou Downe ISBN:9063695438 on Experience Design for eGov and the Service Economy (more)

Lauren Opal Boebert (/ˈboʊbərt/ BOH-bərt; née Roberts; born December 19, 1986) is an American politician, businesswoman, and gun rights activist[3] serving as the U.S. representative for Colorado's 3rd congressional district... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Boebert (more)

Lorien is an infinite canvas drawing/note-taking app that is focused on performance, small savefiles and simplicity. It's not based on bitmap images like Krita, Gimp or Photoshop; it rather saves brush strokes as a collection of points and renders them at runtime (kind of like SVG). It's primarily designed to be used as a digital notebook and as brainstorming tool. While it can totally be used to make small sketches (sketching) and diagrams, it is not meant to replace traditional art programs that operate on bitmap images. It is entirely written in the Godot Game Engine. https://github.com/mbrlabs/Lorien (Not a webapp, but a "real" desktop app.)

cf sketching, graph-drawing, diagram

Jess Martin: Building the future of software with DXOS. The tl;dr is I've joined DXOS to help build a developer platform for building local-first, collaborative, interoperable apps. (more)

Chad Kohalyk on Spatial Computing, Infinite Canvas, and new perspectives. My zettelkasten practice certainly needs a rethink. I still love Obsidian though, it is by far my most used daily app. (more)

aka 3D? Not necessarily, could be panning-and-zooming 2d.... cf infinite canvas (more)

Code search and an AI assistant (Cody) with the context of the code graph. https://sourcegraph.com/ (more)

Jon Udell: Radical just-in-time learning. Buoyed by the success of my LLM-assisted refactoring exercise, I set a new and (for me) more ambitious goal. (more)

Jon Udell: Should LLMs Write Marketing Copy? On The Marketing Mix podcast, Charley Karpiuk advises against using LLMs to write marketing copy (more)

Jon Udell: Test-Driven Development with LLMs: Never Trust, Always Verify. As community lead for Steampipe, I’d long wanted a better way to visualize project activity. The raw information is available in GitHub changelogs, and the logs are written in a consistent style, so in theory it would be straightforward to extract structured data from the logs but — as always — the devil’s in the details. Writing regexes to match patterns in the changelogs was an arduous chore that I’d been putting off. Since LLMs are fundamentally pattern matchers, I figured they could help me get it done easier and faster. (more)