Cameron Koczon how Fictive Kin’s product development starts with “a Seinfeld” - an app that does nothing - and ends with a polished core experience.

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#ProductDesign #UX #ToolMaking #Software #Podcast

Designing Tools is Awesome: Cameron Koczon, Partner at Fictive Kin

Fictive Kin’s Cameron Koczon on understanding the foundational impact of design.

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The Skeptics Guide #1061 - Nov 8 2025

Quickie with Bob: #Nanotech #Cancer Drug; News Items: NEO #Robot, UN #Climate Report, Human #Toolmaking, Worst #Panspermia #Headline Ever, AI-Powered #Wound #Healer; Who's That #Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Horse #Evolution, Stranded #Taikonauts; #Science or Fiction

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The Skeptics Guide to the Universe

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After using the new shooting grip for a while, I decided to add another modification to protect the palm of my hand from chafing on the hard edge of the iron.
#woodworking #toolmaking
Why do monkeys waste time on frivolous activities rather than cooperate to make tools and build industries?
#monkeys #primates #animals #animalbehavior #toolmaking #industry #zoology #timemanagement #animalintelligence #monkeyintelligence #animalpsychology #socialbehavior #wastingtime

Result of yesterday's work: three hand planes with five additional holes for the shooting grip. (On the Veritas Low-Angle Smoother I was able to re-use the existing hole for the grub screw for lateral blade adjustment.)

It's much more comfortable than without the grip on all three planes (but quartersawn oak is still a pain to shoot 🙈)

#woodworking #metalworking #toolmaking #HandToolWoodworking

Herb chopper make from scrounged up steel the blade is made out of some old cultivator tine
And the handles are made out of some hickory tool handle scraps
There’s something deeply satisfying about turning discarded materials into something useful again.
One of my favourite parts of forging is foraging.

#blacksmithing #reclaimedmaterials #handmadetools #upcycleddesign #herbchopper #toolmaking #scrapmatalart

🪛 Small, Sharp Tools

Upon joining Heroku a few years back, one of the maxims that I heard cited frequently was that of building small, sharp tools, the idea of building minimalist, composable programs that worked in concert to a degree of effectiveness that was more than the sum of their parts. The classic example of such a system was the Unix shell, which contains a set of small utilities that provide a highly effective operating environment. Despite its origin in Unix, a number of people at Heroku including a founder and a few lead engineers had found that it lent itself quite naturally to building modern web platforms.

#modularity, #programming, #toolmaking, #unix, #🌐_eng, #🏷️_article

Small, Sharp Tools — brandur.org