nirvash is live - blog post details some design decisions and stuff

Nicholas Burns, US ambassador to China, stresses need to find common ground amid tense relations
Nicholas Burns also counters the claim that US policy is designed to keep China down and prevent it from developing. ‘The evidence doesn’t bear that out,’ he says ⌘ Read more

Accelerating GitHub theme creation with color tooling
Learn why the GitHub Design Infrastructure team built a dedicated color tool and how they use it to create new color palettes for GitHub. ⌘ Read more

Open Source Monthly: June 2022 Edition
June’s Open Source Monthly features Mondos–a community-focused company building software and hardware that designs digital devices with respect for users’ time, attention, and well-being. ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: MongooseIM 5.1 Configuration Rework
MongooseIM is a modern messaging server that is designed for scalability and high performance. The use of XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) extensions (XEPs) means it is also highly customisable. Since version 4.0 it has been using the TOML configuration file format, which is much more user-friendly than the previously used Erlang terms. The latest release, MongooseIM 5.1, makes it more developer-friendly as well by … ⌘ Read more

Chaucer on Dynamically Loading Web Pages
The author of “The Canterbury Tales” has thoughts on modern web design. ⌘ Read more

TIL: Antarctica has its own unofficial flag. You could see Graham Bartram’s design in emoji: 🇦🇶

The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP & Google Summer of Code 2022: Welcome new contributors!

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The Google Summer of Code 2022 is about to lift off and coding starts soon! The XSF has not just been
accepted (again!) as a hosting organization for XMPP projects, we also can welcome two new contributors who will work on open-source software projects in the XMPP environment! We have updated our [designated web-page](h … ⌘ Read more

A Retro-Modern Linux Terminal with a Round Screen
It’s like a 1960s design of a “Computer of the Future”… running modern Linux. And I love it. ⌘ Read more

Maps
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Erlang Solutions: Using Elixir and WhatsApp to Fight COVID19

Discover the inside story of how the World Health Organisation’s WhatsApp COVID-19 hotline service was launched in 5 days using Elixir. At the beginning of March 2020, Turn.io launched the world’s first WhatsApp-based COVID-19 response for the South African Ministry of Health. The service was designed, deployed, stress-tested, and launched.

In 5 days. It scaled, before any kind of public launch, to 450K unique … ⌘ Read more

Graphic Designers
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Anyone good with designing logos? Salty IM needs one fast! 😅

I would HIGHLY recommend reading up on the keybase architecture. They designed device key system for real time chat that is e2e secure. https://book.keybase.io/security

A property of ec keys is deriving new keys that can be determined to be “on curve.” bitcoin has some BIPs that derive single use keys for every transaction connected to a wallet. And be derived as either public or private chains. https://qvault.io/security/bip-32-watch-only-wallets/

I would HIGHLY recommend reading up on the keybase architecture. They designed device key system for real time chat that is e2e secure. https://book.keybase.io/security

A property of ec keys is deriving new keys that can be determined to be “on curve.” bitcoin has some BIPs that derive single use keys for every transaction connected to a wallet. And be derived as either public or private chains. https://qvault.io/security/bip-32-watch-only-wallets/

Docker: Nine Years YOUNG
Nine years ago today, March 15, 2013, Solomon Hykes, the founder of Docker, first demoed Docker publicly to the world at PyCon. On stage Solomon noted that, for developers, “shipping to the server is hard,” and thus he and the early team designed Docker to help developers more easily build, share, and run any app, […]

The post Docker: Nine Years YOUNG appeared first on Docker Blog. ⌘ Read more

“Consider SQLite”
I am convinced of SQLite. For many use cases where other databases like MySQL, MariaDB or PostgreSQL are often used, SQLite would suffice, given the right design and architecture. ⌘ Read more

How I checked the battery health of my Android phone 🔋
My smartphone, a Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite, which has been my daily driver for a year and a few months, has a 4500mAh Li-Po battery (“lithium-ion polymer” – like lithium-ion, but with solid or gel-like electrolytes that allow a thinner design). My smartphone can be charged with a maximum of 45 watts. The included charger, which I always use for charging, delivers a maximum of 25 watts. ⌘ Read more

Article on designing 21st century instruments for teaching music theory (aka ditch the piano): [[https://historyofmusictheory.wordpress.com/2021/11/01/should-we-burn-the-pianos-introducing-a-collaborative-project-focused-on-building-new-instruments-for-theory/]] #links

It’s time again to ask my followers: I have my homepage jlelse.dev, but I’m thinking about using jlelse.com for a more professional and appealing website about me. I can program, but my design skills are somewhat limited. What should I use to design and create the site? I used Carrd a couple of years ago. But are there any other recommendations? ⌘ Read more

They come with a notch now, but with bigger screen real estate. It really is a new design.

How to Build a Low-tech Solar Panel?
George Cove, a forgotten solar power pioneer, may have built a highly efficient photovoltaic panel 40 years before Bell Labs engineers invented silicon cells. If proven to work, his design could lead to less complex and more sustainable solar panels. ⌘ Read more

🙌 Liked: DIY Air Purification Designs ⌘ Read more

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How to design a sailing ship for the 21st century?
It is surprisingly difficult to build a carbon neutral sailing ship. This is even more the case today, because our standards for safety, health, hygiene, comfort, and convenience have changed profoundly since the Age of Sail. ⌘ Read more

A Chill Day of DNA Design (And Updates!) - Livestream ⌘ Read more…

A Chill Day of DNA Design (And Updates!) - Livestream ⌘ Read more…

@prologic@twtxt.net @antonio@twtxt.net I have been trying out session. Its got a pretty simple design. not a lot of frills.

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@prologic@twtxt.net @antonio@twtxt.net I have been trying out session. Its got a pretty simple design. not a lot of frills.

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@xjix@xj-ix.luxe Saw your oldish note about wanting an offline/async twtxt workflow. Do you have something that works for you? My (very young!) client was designed with that in mind.

How we designed and wrote the narrative for our homepage ⌘ Read more…

Penpot - Design Freedom for Teams - This is quite cool, going to try this out next time I need to design something. ⌘ Read more…

How to Restore Expression Web’s Design Panel and Layout to its Initial Default State ⌘ Read more…

New Docker and JFrog Partnership Designed to Improve the Speed and Quality of App Development Processes ⌘ Read more…

Minimal gophermap design for gopher://oevl.info #lessismore

Minimal gophermap design for gopher://oevl.info #lessismore

the concept of literally typed languages. as in, languages designed to be satisfying to type. #halfbakedideas

The Suiko ST-50. A rare japanese synthesizer designed to accompany poetry: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzo9ebsFd6Q]] #links #synthesizers #youtube

LC is a new music programming language that is prototype-based, strongly timed, and designed with microsound synthesis in mind: [[https://www.hnishino.com/2019/05/09/lc-a-new-computer-music-programming-language-with-three-core-features/]] #links #composition

Maxime Buquet: What about design? ⌘ https://bouah.net/2020/07/what-about-design/

the Stainless Steel law: “the better designed the impact assessment of a social program, the more likely is the resulting estimate of net impact to be zero.” The Iron Law Of Evaluation And Other Metallic Rules · Gwern.net

I like the clean and simple design choice. Easy to read and not distracting. Good!

Why is programming fun? What delights may its practitioner expect as his reward? First is the sheer joy of making things. As the child delights in his mud pie, so the adult enjoys building things, especially things of his own design. I think this delight must be an image of God’s delight in making things, a delight shown in the distinctness and newness of each leaf and each snowflake. Second is the pleasure of making things that are useful to other people. Deep within, we want others to use our work and to find it helpful. In this respect the programming system is not essentially different from the child’s first clay pencil holder “for Daddy’s office.” Third is the fascination of fashioning complex puzzle-like objects of interlocking moving parts and watching them work in subtle cycles, playing out the consequences of principles built in from the beginning. The programmed computer has all the fascination of the pinball machine or the jukebox mechanism, carried to the ultimate. Fourth is the joy of always learning, which springs from the nonrepeating nature of the task. In one way or another the problem is ever new, and its solver learns something: sometimes practical, sometimes theoretical, and sometimes both. Finally, there is the delight of working in such a tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly re- moved from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures. (As we shall see later, this very tractability has its own problems.) Ask HN: How to rediscover the joy of programming? | Hacker News

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Colors for Programmers https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/03/11/colors.html #techtips #programming #design #color #format #math

Iconic Icons: Designing the World of Windows https://medium.com/microsoft-design/iconic-icons-designing-the-world-of-windows-5e70e25e5416

Iconic Icons: Designing the World of Windows https://medium.com/microsoft-design/iconic-icons-designing-the-world-of-windows-5e70e25e5416

[earth is moved slightly outwards to keep the climate within safe parameters]↵Long Now clock designers and everybody who maintains timezone files: sighhhhh

Looking at text-first design: https://indieweb.org/text-first_design

Now that feedback on the design has died down (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21268252; https://lobste.rs/s/xtxlec), back to hacking.

Mu’s design is taking on a life of its own: http://akkartik.name/post/mu-2019-1

@adiabetic@www.frogorbits.com I think my pulse would be high a lot of times if using iOS. I hear of so many problems from #xmpp devs fighting iOS and push. Not having a reliable chat app due to apples design constraints would really piss me off.

Everytime a x86_64 bug appears in the wild, a Sun SPARC designer opens another champagne.

Random link from the archives: http://codex99.com/design/the-hp35.html originally archived Tue May 15 12:43:08 EDT 2018

A Data Scientist Designed A Social Media Influencer Account That’s 100% Automated https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/automated-instagram-influencer-bot-free-meals?utm_campaign=The%20Interface

Poor documentation is overrated as an attribute of jokes. (Some of my favorite jokes are literally humorous attempts at explaining other jokes.) The difference between standup comedy & UI design is even bad comics know this.

A Global Review of Public Transit Seat Cover Designs - CityLab https://www.citylab.com/design/2019/02/public-transit-design-seat-cover-textile-patterns-moquette/583045/

Parallax scrolling effects are bad design. Here’s why https://www.fastcompany.com/90309395/why-parallax-scrolling-needs-to-die

Design for Death - 50 Watts http://50watts.com/Design-for-Death

Too Many Requests https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/comments/aqsej3/errors_of_scale_in_social_media_design_thinking/

Inside the larps that let human players experience AI life - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18185945/live-action-roleplaying-larp-game-design-artificial-intelligence-ethics-issues

Maze Design http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/csk/projects/mazes/

Designing the game console of the future (in 1997) - Polygon https://www.polygon.com/features/2019/1/28/18146043/the-game-console-of-the-future-1997-nintendo-power

Sad by design | Eurozine https://www.eurozine.com/sad-by-design/

Cleanroom Software Engineering | Dr Dobb’s http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/cleanroom-software-engineering/184405405

Laura Kalbag “ Ethical design is not superficial https://laurakalbag.com/ethical-design-is-not-superficial/

How the Marber grid was made | Penguin Series Design https://penguinseriesdesign.com/2017/02/15/how-the-marber-grid-was-made/

A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign/

Designing Our Disciplines in a Postmodern Age – and Academy http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/designing-our-disciplines-in-a-postmodern-age-and-academy/

Plot-shaped Level Design | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2016/05/18/plot-shaped-level-design/

Mailbag: Self-Training in Narrative Design | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2019/01/08/mailbag-self-training-in-narrative-design/

The great Lisp and Smalltalk systems are designed from the ground up with the as… | Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16586347

social_media_design | How should names work in a distributed system? A suggestion for a context-aware petname approach https://social-media-design.dreamwidth.org/886.html

35C3 - Artistic PCB Design and Fabrication - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlynweLLpOY

The Great Recession inspired minimalism in clothes, homes, and branding - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/12/27/18156431/recession-fashion-design-minimalism

Designing Freedom, Regulating a Nation: Socialist Cybernetics in Allende’s Chile https://www.informatics.indiana.edu/edenm/EdenMedinaJLASAugust2006.pdf

Design: The Dymaxion American - TIME http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,875527-1,00.html

Interview with Alan Kay | Dr Dobb’s http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-with-alan-kay/240003442?pgno=1

‘User empowerment’ is a useful idea that gets abused to glorify user-hostile design. It’s usually used to refer to situations where the user is empowered to do as we (devs or PMs) tell them, or where the empowerment is too abstract to be proven.

GitHub - nickgravgaard/windowlab: A small and simple window manager of novel design (unmaintained) https://github.com/nickgravgaard/windowlab

Good design for developers & good design for non-developers don’t operate by different rules. Devs aren’t happy needing to memorize manuals, and end users can & will learn things if it makes their lives easier.

What If Bacteria Designed Computers? on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/858385

‘Detective Pikachu’ Reminds Me Of The Disastrous ‘Mario Bros.’ Movie, And That’s Good - Digg http://digg.com/2018/detective-pikachu-super-mario-bros-film-production-design

On Programming Language Design - ielliott.io http://blog.ielliott.io/on-programming-language-design/

Cringe and the Design of Sacred Experiences https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/01/11/cringe-and-the-design-of-sacred-experiences/

Tutorials That Don’t Talk Down To You - Context Sensitive Design - Extra Credits - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFdEEzgc7pg

Jeanine Adkisson - Design and Prototype a Language In Clojure - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1KVwoE3n28

On Weaponised Design - Radical Networks - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG_z8jyREgk

Visual Programming Languages - Snapshots http://blog.interfacevision.com/design/design-visual-progarmming-languages-snapshots/

http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/1st_edition/designing_plan_9

Folklore.org: Desk Ornaments http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Desk_Ornaments.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date&topic=Software+Design

Folklore.org: The Grand Unified Model (2) - The Finder http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=The_Grand_Unified_Model_The_Finder.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date&topic=Software+Design

Folklore.org: The Grand Unified Model (1) - Resources http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=The_Grand_Unified_Model.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date&topic=Software+Design

GitHub - schierlm/oberon-risc-emu-enhanced: Emulator for the Oberon RISC machine, with enhanced features (not supported by the original design by N. Wirth) https://github.com/schierlm/oberon-risc-emu-enhanced

Shiba Computer https://shiba.computer/essay/on-weaponised-design/

http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/1st_edition/designing_plan_9

The Universe of Discourse : Design patterns of 1972 https://blog.plover.com/2006/09/11/

GitHub - schierlm/oberon-risc-emu-enhanced: Emulator for the Oberon RISC machine, with enhanced features (not supported by the original design by N. Wirth) https://github.com/schierlm/oberon-risc-emu-enhanced

Hot take: in the absence of full information, provide reasonable defaults that are easily overridden. Making users repeat normally-identical pieces of information several times just because they CAN differ in a corner case is bad design.

A Look at the Design of Lua | November 2018 | Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/11/232214-a-look-at-the-design-of-lua/fulltext

On Weaponised Design - Radical Networks - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG_z8jyREgk