Notes
This is a collection of my half-formed thoughts, my digital garden.
The system currently contains 143 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.
Tools for Novelty11Craft Comes from Repetition7Computer Science Positivism6Tools as Collaborators4Creative Work is Often Nonlinear3Working with the Material3Avoid "Spooky Action at a Distance" in Software1Recipes are not Programs1
End-User Programming25Simulator19Where Do Ideas Come From?12Bret Victor's Thesis10The Incredible Power of The Right Interface10End-User Programming vs Programming6Programming Tools and People's Needs6Spreadsheet for End-User Programming Might be a Wrong Model6Domain Experts Shouldn't be Limited by Developer Time3
Bicycle for the Mind12Dynamic Medium11Tensions11Epistemic Actions10Cognitive Medium9Research Themes9Understanding Through Building9Following Genuine Interests Forms Positive Feedback Loops8Metacognition and Debugging8Places in Software8Play Your Own Games8VPL Issues8Second-Order Tool Building6Tools Building Us6Ladder Of Abstraction5Leave Room for Errors5Time and Experimentation5End-User Programming Self-Hosted Systems are in Tension with Direct Manipulation4Gradual Enhancement4Working in the Dynamic Medium4New Ideas Should be Oversaturated3Climate Change2Idea Hooks2Information Aesthetics2Achieving Cognitive Fit is Easier than Social Fit1Tuple Space1
Solving Things Visually14Fixating on Solution Aesthetics can Lead to Solving Wrong Problems10Thinking About Thinking Requires Something to Think About9Working with Copies2
Cybernetics19Self-Cybernetics11Pixel Space and Tools8Embodied Cognition7Browsing vs Searching6Deliberate Practice6Great Thoughts6Peripheral Vision in Software4Mastering Tools3Sequences of Static Snapshots3Strive for Greatness3Community in Research1Strive to Have Balanced Days1
Links20Thinking by Writing16Canvas for Programming14Canvas for Thinking14Extended Mind11Situated Cognition11Thinking with Zettelkasten9Creating-Curating8Constructionism6End-User Programming Should be Task-Oriented6Computationalism5No Chrome5Second-Order Cybernetics5Knowledge Work Should Accrete4Notes Should Serve a Purpose4Data not Apps3Look for Opposite Views Instead of Confirming Ones3Zeigarnik Effect3Feedback Loops in Research are Long2Neighbour Computing2
VPL21Composing Functionality and VPLs6Fractality of Software Tools6Data Layer5DAG and Tree Representations of Code4Syntopic Reading3Filesystem as Database2
Research61Learning40Future Of Coding15Understanding Requires Effort13Memex12Thinking and Time8Workshop vs Library8Computational DAGs7Handling History in Software7CLI UX6Environments not App Pickers6Linguistic Determinism6Modes6Reflective Practice6Connections are Usually Better than Taxonomies5Extended Phenotypes5Memex and My Limits5Cognition Shape4Dialog Across Time4Downtime4Each Extensions is an Amputation4Edit-Commit4Note Titles Becoming Abstractions4Orientation in Fractal Software4Research and Day-to-Day4Dependency Graph for Constructed Geometry3Do Your Own Thinking3Dynabook3Ideating-Authoring3Improvements vs Breakthroughs3Rules for Visual Information Systems3Software Performance and Thinking3Connectionism2Constructivism2Conversation Theory2Design Science2Dialog in UI2Grey Thinking2Human Colossus2Pencil and OS-level Doodling2Perceptual Control Theory2Petri Nets2VPL vs Text2Confirmation Bias1Design Methods Movement1E-Prime1Epicureanism1Genetic Epistemology1Semiotics1Short-Sightedness in Software1Engineering vs Science0
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