So much goodness this week! Including a classic piece from Nielsen about the Mac interface that channels some ideas on the future of interfaces that we're only just starting to see realised.
I speak with Cornelia Davis, CTO of Weaveworks about GitOps, Flux and simplifying the creation of Kubernetes clusters.
The multi-repository documentation site generator for tech writers who write with AsciiDoc. if you need a documentation tool that supports multiple sources of information, project versions, and other complexities, then Antora may be for you. In this livestream I test Antora and see how far I can get.
I've learned that video tutorials are a great way to teach my students, and open source tools have helped me take my video-production skills to the next level. This article will explain how to get started and add artfulness and creativity to your video tutorial projects.
Summary: We reverse all of the core design principles behind the Macintosh human interface guidelines to arrive at the characteristics of the Internet desktop. Originally published as: Gentner, D., and Nielsen, J.: The Anti-Mac interface, 39, 8 (August 1996), 70–82.
Energy consumption has become the latest flashpoint for cryptocurrency. Critics decry it as an energy hog while proponents hail it for being less intensive than the current global economy.
The project will focus on five areas web developers struggle with when attempting to create a consistent experience across browsers using core web layout, forms and animation tools. These include: CSS Flexbox, CSS Grid, CSS position: sticky, the CSS aspect-ratio property, and CSS transforms.
Well the past few weeks have all been about the somewhat poor decision of the FSF to reinstate Richard M Stallman. Seemingly everyone is against the decision, but no word from the FSF… Yet.
Richard M Stallman, founder and former president of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), announced at the organisation's LibrePlanet virtual event that he has rejoined the board and does not intend to resign again.
Richard M. Stallman (RMS) has always been a polarizing figure. There are people who love him and those that hate him. For example, RMS often clashed with Linus Torvalds. RMS has claimed that the Linux operating system should be called GNU/Linux. He also clashed with Eric S.
When the Free Software Foundation (FSF) allowed disgraced founder Richard M. Stallman (RMS) to rejoin its board, the FSF board members clearly had no idea how others would see the move. They do now. Numerous free software and open-source members and leaders have decried RMS's return.
The past couple of weeks I have been looking at different methods for organising my copious notes, ideas, and todos. I am a little undecided on what works for me yet, but the different principles make interesting reading.
Imagine for a moment the perfect organizational system. One that supported and enhanced the work you do, telling you exactly where to put a piece of information, and exactly where to find it when you needed it.
Why are you reading this introduction? The chances are that you either have an immediate need to solve the riddle of knowledge work, feel overwhelmed by your master’s thesis, try to level up your blog, want to write a book because it’s cool, try to get on top as a consultant, excel at research,
Staying on top of your productive game is always a big task. Especially when working from home. It can be very distracting and hard to focus on our work. As a person who lives with 6 other members, I know quite a bit how hard it can be to work.
A few streams from me this week, including the YouTube edits of a weekly D&D stream I take part in as a player.
I play the solo variant of the classic “tales from the loop”, written by Peter Rudin-Burgess
Episode 11 - The Crumbling Stairs (Pt 1) was streamed live on our Twitch channel at Twitch.tv/crittestdummies on Jan 10th. Check us out most Sundays at 6 PM CET for new episodes! You can find this adventure and more by Cameron Melka on DMs Guild at https://bit.ly/3fblKY3 He can also be found at @SeenRender on Twitter. Character art made by Lance @20sapodcast on Twitter. Game audio by Tabletop Audio. Thank you to Cameron for letting us use their work, our players Chris, Enya, Patrick and Shane, and our DM Peter!
Episode 12 - Battle Royale (Pt 1) was streamed live on our Twitch channel at Twitch.tv/crittestdummies on Jan 31st. Check us out most Sundays at 6 PM CET for new episodes! You can find this adventure and more by Joseph Reilly on DMs Guild at https://bit.ly/31eXk7B He can also be found at @JosephMReilly on Twitter. Character art made by Lance @20sapodcast on Twitter. Game audio by Tabletop Audio. Thank you to Joseph for letting us use their work, our players Chris, Enya, Patrick and Shane, and our DM Peter!
I used to play in a band, and whilst this article is more about "pop" bands, I found it an interesting look at why "the kids" just aren't interested anymore.
“The moment that we started a band was the best thing that ever happened,” sings Matty Healy on the 1975’s recent single Guys. The song is an ardent love letter to the band, and to the romance of bands in general: the camaraderie, the solidarity, the joyous fusion of creativity and friendship.
