Alan Kay concept related to the Dynabook. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1301186 (more)

software engineer, designer, and researcher. I work on technologies that expand what people can think and do. (ThinkingTools) https://andymatuschak.org/ Was at Khan Academy, Apple. (more)

Using Stripe.com Checkout For Your SaaS Subscription handling. I'm going through this right now as part of (2020-10-12) Building user management in WikiFlux, and am irritated enough to want to reset my brain.... (more)

"center" of Low-Rock cluster: AKACOD, Bourbon Princess, etc. Morphine was an American rock band formed by Mark Sandman, Dana Colley, and Jerome Deupree in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1989. Drummer Billy Conway replaced Deupree as the band's live drummer in 1991. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphine_(band)

Morphine-descended group. (more)

Jon Udell pokes Jeff Jarvis, Dan Gillmor, and Dan Froomkin: Can you help us route around the damage and find other ways to reach the undecided and/or apathetic who don't read Big Journalism (Big Media) anyway? (more)

Andy Matuschak: Some quick notes following Apple’s 2023-06-05 Vision Pro announcement. I’m mainly interested in the user interface and the computing paradigm. What does Apple imagine we’ll be doing with these devices, and how will we do it? (more)

Andy Matuschak: Twitter is a water cooler (more)

2D BarCode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code (more)

XHTML/MicroFormat version of VCard (more)

Maggie Appleton: Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers. This is a talk I presented at the Local-first Conference in Berlin, May 2024. For the last ~year I've been keeping a close eye on how language models capabilities meaningfully change the speed, ease, and accessibility of software development. The slightly bold theory I put forward in this talk is that we're on a verge of a golden age of local, home-cooked software and a new kind of developer – what I've called the barefoot developer. (more)

I'm going to make a habit of joining Ward Cunningham''s FederatedWiki calls, and just make some cross-ref notes here about things being worked on. (more)

A MUD (/mʌd/; originally multi-user dungeon, with later variants multi-user dimension and multi-user domain)[1][2] is a multiplayer real-time virtual world, usually text-based. MUDs combine elements of role-playing games, hack and slash, player versus player, interactive fiction, and online live chat. Players can read or view descriptions of rooms, objects, other players, non-player characters, and actions performed in the virtual world. Players typically interact with each other and the world by typing commands that resemble a natural language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-user_dungeon

aka State Machine (more)

"A tiny little drawing (diagram) app." https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw (more)

I want some a variation of tldraw that lets me (more)

WikiEngine I built for my WikiLog and later PrivateWiki. Turned into FluxGarden service. (more)

zettelkasten/digital garden writer https://writingslowly.com named Richard.

Andy Matuschak: Exorcising us of the Primer. If you want to make an educational technologist’s eyes sparkle, just mention “The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer”. (more)

WritingSlowly reviews A System for Writing by Bob Doto. Another ‘Zettelkasten primer’ won’t be needed for some time, since this one is direct, concise, thorough and strongly practical. (more)