26 June 2021

21 links · Saturday

Whatever Happened to UI Affordances?

I am grumpy. As my very clever wife summarised, I hate when designers prioritise their æsthetic preferences over my usability needs. I tried sharing a website using Google Chrome for Android. I hit…

Focus vs Coordination

Teamwork is a dance between focus and coordination. Focus The fundamental unit of focus is action. If a perfectly focused individual is in “flow”, a perfectly focused team flows like a well-oiled machine. Teammates work perfectly in parallel to produce maximum…

Offensive Team Names and GUIDs

Not long ago while driving with my NPR loving wife I was accidentally exposed to a radio panel “conversation”1 about offensive team names. Unless you’ve been off-planet for the last few decad…

The Hidden Structural Costs of Incompetence

It is costly to have incompetence in your organization. This is obvious. Someone is not performing or delivering at a high level, your product or service suffers, your business suffers. It is also …

Truth Is a Weird Shape

This is a distillation of an analogy I've found surprisingly applicable to very disparate things. It goes like this: Suppose hovering ab...

What is simplicity in programming and why does it matter?

When I started with Clojure, I saw a language. Some people, when they look at it, they only see a weird syntax. It took me years to realize that in truth Clojure is a philosophy. The language embodies it, the ecosystem embraces it and grows from it, you the de…

Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment

A major witness in the United States’ Department of Justice case against Julian Assange has admitted to fabricating key accusations in the indictment against the Wikileaks founder.

halfer53/winix

A UNIX-style Operating System for the Waikato RISC Architecture Microprocessor (WRAMP) - halfer53/winix

Parse, don’t validate

Historically, I’ve struggled to find a concise, simple way to explain what it means to practice type-driven design. Too often, when someone asks me “How did you come up with this approach?” I find I can’t give them a satisfying answer. I know it didn’t ju...

Uno Platform 3.8 Is Here

Uno Platform 3.8 version release brings a lot of exciting additions to the platform, such as WinUI controls and layouts like CalendarDatePicker and CalendarView controls, Grid controls, 2x performance, new Linux scenario and more. With this release, Uno is app…

Build your first microservice with .NET - Learn

Microservice applications are composed of small, independently versioned, and scalable customer-focused services that communicate with each other over standard protocols with well-defined interfaces. Each microservice typically encapsulates simple business log…