dorian

@doriantaylor
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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

Webhttps://doriantaylor.com
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/doriantaylor
YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/@methodandstructure
GitHubhttps://github.com/doriantaylor

recorded this last friday, proximately in response to sam altman's funny definition of "intelligence"

https://youtu.be/EPdMN5ofbSw

2026-03-13 performing smartness

YouTube

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

@doriantaylor.com's livestream on Streamplace

2026-02-28 WORKING IN PUBLIC: Final test run of Semantic REST lecture

thanks for inviting me last night @mayintoronto!, also good to see you again @mhoye

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

@doriantaylor.com's livestream on Streamplace

2026-02-28 WORKING IN PUBLIC: Final test run of Semantic REST lecture

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

@doriantaylor.com's livestream on Streamplace

2026-02-28 WORKING IN PUBLIC: Final test run of Semantic REST lecture

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

@doriantaylor.com's livestream on Streamplace

2026-02-28 WORKING IN PUBLIC: Final test run of Semantic REST lecture

streaming my final test run of my first of 7 Semantic REST lectures; still warming up; gonna start in a minute

https://stream.place/doriantaylor.com
https://twitch.tv/methodandstructure
https://youtu.be/mpKtYD36awY

@doriantaylor.com's livestream on Streamplace

2026-02-28 WORKING IN PUBLIC: Final test run of Semantic REST lecture

randomly just thought up "sophie's yak-shave" when you have more than one option for holes you have to go down to obtain some outcome you're trying to get

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)

The Media Equation

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.

University of Chicago Press

ok yup here we go; gonna turducken this playback for notes/b-roll (you'll see what i mean)

https://stream.place/doriantaylor.com
https://twitch.tv/methodandstructure
https://youtu.be/FRYLEGGgOUU

@doriantaylor.com's livestream on Streamplace

2026-02-28 WORKING IN PUBLIC: Final test run of Semantic REST lecture