make things. make sense.
• making infrastructure for dense hypermedia at https://intertwingler.net .
• writing a book connecting Christopher Alexander to software, serialized as a newsletter ($): https://buttondown.email/natureofsoftware
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cursed thought of the afternoon: webdav is underrated but the message payloads could use a syntax refresh, xml → json
purely cosmetic for the purpose of getting devs to take interest in it lol; it should have the same semantics and you should be able to just apply a function to one to get the other
anyway thought brought to you by thinking about the time i implemented a webdav server (back in like 2010?) and discovered windows xp's webdav fs driver was clearly parsing the xml with regexes
recorded this last friday, proximately in response to sam altman's funny definition of "intelligence"
geriatric and very loud dishwasher has now run its course; begin the streams:
• https://stream.place/doriantaylor.com
• https://twitch.tv/methodandstructure.com
• https://youtu.be/LGXZ8qt3qOY
gonna go over the sense atlas spiel using the issue network i created earlier for this checkout/enrollment flow
gonna do another planning session this morning on this checkout flow after working NINE HOURS last night to fix a bug in sense atlas so i can resume using it to do said planning
• https://stream.place/doriantaylor.com
• https://twitch.tv/methodandstructure
• https://youtu.be/anMeXQlyjVM
mkay i am back from the pool and i have a full french press and i'm gonna get turbojacked while i work on this some moar; goal is to get the design for this thing sorted over the next few hours
• https://stream.place/doriantaylor.com
• https://twitch.tv/methodandstructure
• https://youtu.be/GB24KI0kqpA
gonna do a quick impromptu stream while i drink coffee and design this order fulfillment UI
• https://stream.place/doriantaylor.com
• https://twitch.tv/methodandstructure
• https://youtu.be/CcHSaqgTnnU
streaming my final test run of my first of 7 Semantic REST lectures; still warming up; gonna start in a minute
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• https://twitch.tv/methodandstructure
• https://youtu.be/mpKtYD36awY
in the 90s reeves and nass published a book (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/M/bo3618528.html) arguing that people treat computers like other people
@mralancooper noted (in his 1999 book, which is how i know about it) that computers are assholes, so you're bound to pick up asshole behaviour if you hang around them too much
(and now computers are lying sycophants so that's probably great)
(said book btw: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0672326140)
Can human beings relate to computer or television programs in the same way they relate to other human beings? Based on numerous psychological studies, this book concludes that people not only can but do treat computers, televisions, and new media as real people and places. Studies demonstrate that people are "polite" to computers; that they treat computers with female voices differently than "male" ones; that large faces on a screen can invade our personal space; and that on-screen and real-life motion can provoke the same physical responses. Using everyday language to engage readers interested in psychology, communication, and computer technology, Reeves and Nass detail how this knowledge can help in designing a wide range of media.
