This past weekend, I went up to the Handcrafted CSS Workshop in Salem, MA.
It was a lot of fun. Be sure to check out Jason Robb’s sketchnotes of the workshop. I would post mine, but his are better.
Handcrafted Site Clinic
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On Heuristics and Human Factors
The latter is the touchstone of great design: we must strive to make our programs require as little learning as possible on the user’s part. Each little thing they have to learn about our program is another obstacle to them using it fully, another tiny chunk of enjoyment stripped from their experience.
(Via Gruber.)
R.I.P. Rorschach
Rorschach died last week.
I said goodbye to him when he went up to Massachusetts with Cecily, but didn’t expect it to be for good. His death was sudden and without warning: Cecily doesn’t know for certain what caused him to get sick so quickly.
One day, he was fine. The next, he was very very sick. And then he died.
He wasn’t with us for very long, but he was a good companion, with a distinctive personality. He was a very happy rabbit. I’m going to miss him.
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Keep it… simple?
OpenCaster is an open-source TS streaming application by Avalpa Digital Engineering.
They have a mantra: “Keep it Simple, Stupid!“
As mantras go, that isn’t bad. We’ve all encountered the KISS principle at some point. Simple enough, let’s move on…
Keep it simple stays for “don’t complicate things if it’s not necessary”.
Um, yes. I guess it does. Thanks for explaining. I think. Moving on…
Let’s try downloading OpenCaster to evaluate it. There must be a download link somewhere…
**How to get OpenCaster **
Don’t be scared if it still seems a tough task wrestling this technology.
If you want to get it and try, you should:
register an account with a valid email address
wait and receive and email with the password
log in on the left column
get to the Reserved Area.
grab your files and stay happy!
And that’s what passes for simple in open source.
Much is explained.
Augmented Reality map experiments
Map/Territory from timo on Vimeo.
Via @timo.
People talking to each other
John Welch would like you to stop overcomplicating things which are really very simple:
So what do you do when you’re faced with someone who is ranting and raving, probably in an obscene fashion about your product or company? Talk To Them
I don’t mean talk at them, or quote statistics, or try to justify why you’re right and their anger or frustration is wrong or unjustified. First, you’re never going to win that argument, and secondly, it makes you look like a total fucking douchebag who isn’t even listening in the first place.
Not arguing is the hard part.
Happy Independence Day!
To all my friends Stateside, happy 4th of July.
To everyone else: Enjoy the extra bandwidth on WoW as Americans play outside for once.
John Scalzi was Right
Was taken by this quote:
And while we’re agreeing with John Scalzi, let’s also note that yes, honestly, the attitudes of the “big three” toward electronic submission really have, over the last decade, gone from “practical response to unsolved problems of electronic mail and text” to “old man yelling at clouds.”
But the rest of the post is interesting, if you’re interested in publishing or science fiction.
