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  • Who to write code for?

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    1 minute

    Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. — SICP, preface to the 1st edition.

  • Dvorak, 3rd year

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    How I’m doing with Dvorak, 3 years since I switched from QWERTY.

  • To become an architect

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    To became a member of the community of architects requires an ability to learn to view the world as an architect and to use architect’s tools in a professional way. This can happen only by observing and interacting with experienced architects within the context of a studio. — Internet, innovation and OpenSource: Actors in the…

  • The new

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    The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends. — Ratatouille, Anton Ego.

  • Chairs and motivation

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    Get a good chair, because you can’t always be motivated, and sometimes you have to sit on it until you’re done. — The grandfather of a friend, who had a work ethic that I share.

  • How I learned the NATO Phonetic Alphabet

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    8 minutes

    The learning and memory techniques I used.

  • Architecture astronauts

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    When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. — Joel Spolsky, Don’t let architecture astronauts scare you.

  • Make something well

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    To learn to make something well can take your whole life. And it’s worth it. — Ursula K. Le Guin.

  • Change and irrelevance

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    If you dislike change, you’re going to dislike irrelevance even more. — Eric Shinseki. Hat tip: Ann Dunwoody, Automattic Grand Meetup 2018.

  • The UNIX way, resurfaced

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    Make it work, make it right, make it fast. — The UNIX way, resurfaced decades later by Kent Beck.

  • Two small jumps

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    It seems to be much easier to make two small jumps than the one big jump in any kind of mental thinking. — Creative Thinking at Bell Labs (1952), Claude Shannon.

  • Vaccine for fuzzy thinking

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    Objectives are like a vaccine for fuzzy thinking. — Why the secret to success is setting the right goals, John Doerr.

  • The magician’s assistant

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    3 minutes

    Review of Ann Patchett’s book, the Reading Club assignment for January 2019.

  • Forest Dark

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    2 minutes

    Review of Nicole Krauss’ book, the Reading Club assignment for January 2019.

  • 1983

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    1 minute

    Review of a bold tv-show produced by Netflix.

  • Rams

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    1 minute

    Review of a documentary on Dieter Rams, by Gary Huswitt, that I crowdfunded in 2016.

  • They came like swallows

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    2 minutes

    A review of William Maxwell’s book, the Reading Club assignment for November 2018.

  • Dvorak two years after

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    1 minute

    How I’m performing on Dvorak two years after the switch.

  • The ones who walk away from Omelas

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    2 minutes

    Review of Ursula K. Le Guin’s short story.

  • The Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin

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    1 minute

    Trailer of the documentary on UKL I crowdfunded in 2016.

  • Function keys in Thinkpads

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    1 minute

    FN + ESC to make the Fn keys switch functions.

  • The girl on the train

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    Review of Paula Hawkins’ book, the Reading Club assignment for June 2018.

  • Scratch Map Summer 2018

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    After some epic trips in the past years, this is what our scratch map looks like by the end of 2018 Summer. Antarctica is in our todo list.