A “Smart Disorganized” Tech Blog
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Introducing OWL
I love outlining. I love wiki. What do you get when you create a mutant cross-breed of the two? A fucking power tool, that’s what! It’s just a rough draft, at the moment, a rough mashup of Concord and ideas from SdiDesk. But I think you can see it’s compelling …
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Dave open-sources his Outliner
Concord is Fargo open-sourced. Dave is, of course, awesome.
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GeekWeaver : Fixed Variable Substitution in Markdown
GeekWeaver : Fixed a bug that prevented variables being evaluated in Markdown mode.
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Xiki
This looks very interesting : I laughed when I first saw it, said “it’s like Emacs”. Seems Emacs is involved somehow. Also reminds me of Enso.
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QuoraGrabber is Dead!
Long live RSS Backup! Really, a separate script / project just to back-up Quora is overkill. Now I have a more general script for backing up from any RSS feed. (Which I’ll be able to use to ensure I have copies of what I write here and on Composing.) I also made it a bit…
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Modularity At Fine Granularity
Ian Bicking has a fascinating question. I’m just going to quote the whole thing because it’s so good and important : The prevailing wisdom says that you should keep your functions small and concise, refactoring and extracting functions as necessary. But this hurts the locality of expectations that I have been thinking about. Consider: function…
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Alan Kay
This is a great presentation by Alan Kay; the spirit lurking behind Bret Victor.
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The Future Of Programming
Bret Victor has another classic talk up : Bret Victor – The Future of Programming from Bret Victor on Vimeo. Watch it. The conceit is entertaining, from his clothes to the overheads. However, despite the brilliance of the presentation, I think he might be wrong. And the fact that it’s taken 40 years for these…
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Cthulhu
My software is more or less like Cthulhu. Normally dead and at the bottom of the sea, but occasionally stirring and throwing out a languid tentacle to drive men’s minds insane. (Or at least perturb a couple of more recklessly adventurous users.) However there’s been a bit more bubbling agitation down in R’lyeh recently. The…
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Quora Scraping As A Service
If you missed it, I launched a Fiverr Gig. Quick explanation.
Got any book recommendations?