Notes
This is a collection of my half-formed thoughts, my digital garden.
The system currently contains 146 public notes, a subset of what I use in my personal knowledge management system.
Interesting places to start could be collections on: End-User Programming, Future Of Coding, Learning, or Cybernetics.
Notes below are grouped by last edit time.
Future Of Coding20Understanding Through Building14Bret Victor's Thesis12Where Do Ideas Come From?12Fixating on Solution Aesthetics can Lead to Solving Wrong Problems11Research Themes10Be Honest with Yourself9Enjoy the Journey6Writing Was Invented for Pragmatic Reasons4Amplifying Strengths can be More Productive than Improving Weaknesses3Visualizing the Problem Domain is More Useful than Visualizing the Program Shape3
Cybernetics21Each Extensions is an Amputation8Design Science6Design Science Research4Information Aesthetics3
Simulator23VPL19Canvas for Programming13Thinking About Thinking Requires Something to Think About12Play Your Own Games11Leave Room for Errors6Computational DAGs4Computer Literacy4VPL Issues3
Solving Things Visually16Dynamic Medium11The Incredible Power of The Right Interface11Epistemic Actions10Pixel Space and Tools9Metacognition and Debugging8Thinking and Time8Computer Science Positivism7Programming as a Specific Case of a Bigger Problem7Modes6Second-Order Tool Building6No Chrome5Data not Apps3Feedback Loops in Research are Long2Filesystem as Database2Idea Hooks2Short-Sightedness in Software1Engineering vs Science0
End-User Programming vs Programming7End-User Programming Self-Hosted Systems are in Tension with Direct Manipulation5Fidelity of The Tool Should be Proportional to The Maturity of The Idea4WYSIWYG is a Form of Naive Realism2
Tools for Novelty11Craft Comes from Repetition8Tools as Collaborators4Creative Work is Often Nonlinear3Working with the Material3Avoid "Spooky Action at a Distance" in Software1Recipes are not Programs1
End-User Programming27Programming Tools and People's Needs6Spreadsheet for End-User Programming Might be a Wrong Model6Domain Experts Shouldn't be Limited by Developer Time3
Following Genuine Interests Forms Positive Feedback Loops12Bicycle for the Mind11Tensions11Cognitive Medium9Places in Software8Tools Building Us7Ladder Of Abstraction6Time and Experimentation5Gradual Enhancement4Working in the Dynamic Medium4New Ideas Should be Oversaturated3Achieving Cognitive Fit is Easier than Social Fit1Tuple Space1
Self-Cybernetics12Browsing vs Searching7Embodied Cognition7Deliberate Practice6Great Thoughts6Peripheral Vision in Software4Mastering Tools3Sequences of Static Snapshots3Community in Research1Strive to Have Balanced Days1
Links20Thinking by Writing16Canvas for Thinking14Extended Mind12Situated Cognition11Thinking with Zettelkasten9Creating-Curating8Constructionism6Computationalism5End-User Programming Should be Task-Oriented5Second-Order Cybernetics5Knowledge Work Should Accrete4Notes Should Serve a Purpose4Look for Opposite Views Instead of Confirming Ones3Zeigarnik Effect3Neighbour Computing2
Research72Learning44Understanding Requires Effort13Memex12Workshop vs Library8Handling History in Software7Reflective Practice7CLI UX6Environments not App Pickers6Linguistic Determinism6Connections are Usually Better than Taxonomies5Extended Phenotypes5Memex and My Limits5Cognition Shape4Dialog Across Time4Do Your Own Thinking4Downtime4Edit-Commit4Note Titles Becoming Abstractions4Orientation in Fractal Software4Research and Day-to-Day4Dynabook3Ideating-Authoring3Improvements vs Breakthroughs3Rules for Visual Information Systems3Software Performance and Thinking3Connectionism2Constructivism2Conversation Theory2Dialog in UI2Grey Thinking2Pencil and OS-level Doodling2Perceptual Control Theory2Confirmation Bias1Design Methods Movement1E-Prime1Genetic Epistemology1Semiotics1
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