dorian

in the 90s reeves and nass published a book (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/M/bo3618528.html) arguing that people treat computers like other people

@mralancooper@hachyderm.io noted (in his 1999 book, which is how i know about it) that computers are assholes, so you're bound to pick up asshole behaviour if you hang around them too much

(and now computers are lying sycophants so that's probably great)

(said book btw: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0672326140)

from this morning: the language of software vendors and how their products "let" users do this or that

maybe instead of praising companies for what their products "let" us do, consider all the things we *could* be doing that they're holding out on

https://youtu.be/VuJmz-H0pE8

recorded this last friday, proximately in response to sam altman's funny definition of "intelligence"

https://youtu.be/EPdMN5ofbSw

thanks for inviting me last night @mayintoronto@beige.party!, also good to see you again @mhoye@cosocial.ca

cursed thought of the afternoon: webdav is underrated but the message payloads could use a syntax refresh, xml → json

purely cosmetic for the purpose of getting devs to take interest in it lol; it should have the same semantics and you should be able to just apply a function to one to get the other

anyway thought brought to you by thinking about the time i implemented a webdav server (back in like 2010?) and discovered windows xp's webdav fs driver was clearly parsing the xml with regexes

gonna do another planning session this morning on this checkout flow after working NINE HOURS last night to fix a bug in sense atlas so i can resume using it to do said planning

• https://stream.place/doriantaylor.com
• https://twitch.tv/methodandstructure
• https://youtu.be/anMeXQlyjVM

mkay i am back from the pool and i have a full french press and i'm gonna get turbojacked while i work on this some moar; goal is to get the design for this thing sorted over the next few hours

• https://stream.place/doriantaylor.com
• https://twitch.tv/methodandstructure
• https://youtu.be/GB24KI0kqpA

randomly just thought up "sophie's yak-shave" when you have more than one option for holes you have to go down to obtain some outcome you're trying to get

geriatric and very loud dishwasher has now run its course; begin the streams:

• https://stream.place/doriantaylor.com
• https://twitch.tv/methodandstructure.com
• https://youtu.be/LGXZ8qt3qOY

gonna go over the sense atlas spiel using the issue network i created earlier for this checkout/enrollment flow

gonna do a quick impromptu stream while i drink coffee and design this order fulfillment UI

• https://stream.place/doriantaylor.com
• https://twitch.tv/methodandstructure
• https://youtu.be/CcHSaqgTnnU

streaming my final test run of my first of 7 Semantic REST lectures; still warming up; gonna start in a minute

• https://stream.place/doriantaylor.com
• https://twitch.tv/methodandstructure
• https://youtu.be/mpKtYD36awY