Adrianna TanThis satirical blog post really illustrates the problem with a lot of technical writing. Amazing technical writing is so good and then everything else reads like this
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Mark Nicol
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East Lothian dad. Likes bad jokes. Mostly tired but optimistic. Would like to write more code and better docs.
Robert McNees“There is no joy more intense than that of coming upon a fact that cannot be understood in terms of currently accepted ideas."
Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was born #OTD in 1900. She used quantum mechanics to decode the spectral lines of stars and deduce their elemental composition, concluding they are mostly H and He, and was the first woman to be made full professor and department chair at Harvard.
Image: Harvard Observatory
Ruth — of systems & design‘Fixers, he says, “know and see different things — indeed, different worlds — than the better-known figures of ‘designer’ or ‘user.’” Breakdown has “world-disclosing properties.” Similarly, Stephen Graham and Nigel Thrift identify breakdown and failure as “the means by which societies learn to reproduce,” because the repair of broken systems always involves elements of “adaptation and improvisation.”’
— @shannonmattern
“It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must also repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.”
— Christopher Alexander (A Pattern Language, 1977)
I posted the first 50 or so slides of my Software Architecture and System Design Intro section on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ruth-malan-4558153_system-design-and-software-architecture-ugcPost-7252896158908325888-EIpd
And then with each Reshare (15! TY) and Like, I was reminded that I'm sooo uncomfortable with stopping before we get to Design in Context and Co-Evolutionary Design etc ...
This unfolds more of the picture:
System Design and Architecture (Introduction): https://www.ruthmalan.com/Bredemeyer/20241021SystemDesignIntro.pdf
Aurélien Grosdidier ✅Psychological Safety vs. High #Standards: A Misunderstood Dynamic | #psychologicalsafety #expectations #comfort #learning #apathy #anxiety #management #leadership https://www.leadingsapiens.com/psychological-safety-vs-high-standards/
Psychological Safety vs. High Standards: A Misunderstood Dynamic
The term “psychological safety” is often misleading. When managers hear safety, many dismiss it as a soft style that implies complacency. Meanwhile, psychology implies too much mumbo jumbo. High-profile figures like Elon Musk advocating for a “hardcore” style perpetuate this misconception. But this is a fundamental misunderstanding of the relationship
Julia Evanswe've been slowly working on adding alt text to all of the pages in the Wizard Zines archive at https://wizardzines.com/comics/. It's not done yet but for the ones that are, they're all actually searchable by alt text!
WeatherMatrix (Jesse Ferrell)The committee concluded that the “failure sequence” of the #Arecibo Telescope took 39 months and began with the effects of Hurricane #Maria in September 2017.
https://gizmodo.com/jaw-dropping-report-reveals-causes-of-arecibo-telescope-collapse-2000517284
Bob Tregilus has moved...Comet C/2023 A3 next to the Milky Way and over the San Juan River, Utah. There's a big oxbow cutoff canyon that the river flows in that's barely visible in the dark portion of this photograph. As with my earlier comet photos, a moonlight, fill light is really helpful when photographing comets. Some moonlight would have been helpful to illuminate the canyon walls in this shot.
selfcare.techDon't give up on self care just because something didn't work for you. Keep trying new ways of being kind to yourself!