Tag: design

  • Questions for 2014 : #4 Visual Design

    Part 4 of a series of questions for 2014 … 4) Can I learn to be a visual designer? My visual design isn’t good enough. It would be wonderful to find a designer I could work with. But I’ve never yet met someone who shared my tastes sufficiently. Either for me to want to recruit…

  • SpimeScript

    These days, I’m thinking a lot about 3D printers, desktop manufacturing and software to create physical things. Last year I did some art pieces using software to generate drawings for laser cutters and 3D printers, and I’m continuing along the same line. I want to move this stuff into the browser, and the combination of…

  • Just remembered Paul Graham’s essay from earlier in the year. It really spoke to me (what with my bias towards the agile, experimental, piecemeal, wiki-natured, wabi-sabi way of design). Of course it’s my road-map for the ongoing development of Mind Traffic Control.

  • Here’s a question … why is Erlang so ugly? I don’t mean that in a pejorative way (not much, anyway). I mean, I really love what it does. I’m totally impressed with Erlang’s power and simplicity. I’m writing simulations which are about a quarter of the size of the Python equivalent. So this is not…