cf Schooling, goal of educating kids, school choice, Nutritionism (more tk, just creating page right now with bit pasted from a different page) (more)

Educating Kids is one of the big Nyc Challenges. (more)

Roy Fielding on URI, URL, WHATWG, interop. The WHATWG url spec defines a set of rules for interpreting references and placing them in a url data structure within browser memory. url != URL. href != URL. The spec says that this is somehow replacing URI, but it isn't even defining the same thing. The algorithms are designed to support 1997-era browser compatibility (even when there is no desire for that). The WHATWG spec uses the same name for (last I checked) five different concepts with five different sets of rules associated with them, each of which are very important for browser consistency. The specification is owned and controlled by four corporations, but isn't fully implemented by any of them. It aspires to be implemented.

Style of Splash Page copywriting that puts huge amount of info right on first page user sees, rather than splitting up into multiple connected pages. (more)

The uWSGI project aims at developing a full stack for building (and hosting) clustered/distributed network applications. Mainly targeted at the web and its standards, it has been successfully used in a lot of different contexts. Thanks to its pluggable architecture it can be extended without limits to support more platforms and languages. Currently, you can write plugins in C, C++ and Objective-C. The "WSGI" part in the name is a tribute to the namesake Python standard, as it has been the first developed plugin for the project. (more)

Last month is was bugging me that Mobile phones don't have return-to-owner info on the outside. Seems like an obvious need, regardless of whether people use "find/lock your missing phone" features. (more)

Nov'2021: So we are now owners of a kitten, and will probably add a 2nd in the spring. (We originally intended to get both at the same time, which affected litter box planning.) (more)

Need to start thinking about a Book Cover for Hack Your Life With A Private Wiki Notebook Getting Things Done And Other Systems. (more)

see Case Study

Datasette is a tool for exploring and publishing data. It helps people take data of any shape or size, analyze and explore it, and publish it as an interactive website and accompanying API. Datasette is aimed at data journalists, museum curators, archivists, local governments, scientists, researchers and anyone else who has data that they wish to share with the world. It is part of a wider ecosystem of 38 tools and 88 plugins dedicated to making working with structured data as productive as possible. https://datasette.io/ By Simon Willison. (more)

book by Roger Schank, ISBN:0805819452 (more)

"Highest-Paid Person's Opinion" - e.g. when decision-making is based more on (management) power than anything else

see Self-Organizing

Teresa Torres: How Much Time Should You Spend in Product Discovery? - Product Talk (more)

Product Management Lessons Learned: A Conversation with Shreyas Doshi & John Cutler. At some point, the major realization for me was that the key to understanding the other person is going to be to make sure that they know that I understand them (more)

Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations book ISBN:1942788339, by Gene Kim, Jez Humble and Dr. Nicole Forsgren. (more)

Trickiness in picking right PostgreSQL schema for timestamp data coming from around the world (varying Time Zones), and how/when to convert it. (more)

see esp clean water

Discussion Forum software. Discourse is an open source Internet forum software application founded in 2013 by Jeff Atwood, Robin Ward, and Sam Saffron.[2] Discourse received funding from First Round Capital and Greylock.[3] From a usability perspective, Discourse breaks with existing forum software by including features recently popularized by large social networks, such as infinite scrolling, live updates, expanding links, and drag and drop attachments.[4] However, the stated goals of the project are social rather than technical, to improve online discussion quality through improved forum software. The application is written in JavaScript and Ruby On Rails,[5] and is released under the GNU General Public License version 2. PostgreSQL is the supported database management system. It also uses EmberJs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_(software) (more)

An argument is an attempt to provide a compelling, rigorous demonstration of the truth of a conclusion, based on the truth of any number of premises. If the argument is valid, the premises together entail or imply the conclusion... The difference between an argument and an explanation should be clear. On the one hand, the function or purpose of an argument is to convince people who might be doubting the conclusion. On the other hand, the function or purpose of an explanation is to give the cause of some phenomenon which we observe, or are willing to assume actually occurs. To put it even more briefly, the purpose of an argument is to persuade, while the purpose of an explanation is to explain. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument (more)