17 Oct 2023 |
The name "Minor" |
About my name |
24 Sep 2023 |
Horseshoes, hand grenades, and the sunk cost fallacy |
Describing a common pattern in software projects |
04 Jun 2023 |
Paying it forward |
Guiding my personal projects and other efforts |
04 Oct 2023 |
Frontend development |
My journey to frontend development |
28 May 2023 |
Prelinger Library |
Passage about the Prelinger Library |
04 Mar 2023 |
Generous interfaces |
Learning about Mitchell Whitelaw's work |
11 Jan 2023 |
The noetic prism |
Puzzling over the DIKW pyramid |
18 Dec 2022 |
Mathematical consultant |
Quote from Bret Victor's foreword to Richard Hamming's The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn |
24 Jun 2022 |
Interactionist models |
Reading about interactionist models in human-computer interaction |
15 Jun 2022 |
Slow technology |
Impressions of the paper "Slow Technology - Designing for Reflection" |
09 May 2022 |
Knowledge Graph Conference |
Interesting talks from the Knowledge Graph Conference |
18 Apr 2022 |
Tools |
Thoughts on tool-building |
29 Mar 2022 |
Long Now |
The Long Now Foundation and John Markoff's new biography of Stewart Brand |
12 Jan 2022 |
Turing lectures |
Favorite Turing lectures |
12 Jan 2022 |
Lessons from the Turing lectures |
Passages from the Turing lectures |
12 Dec 2021 |
Learning spiral |
The way I approach learning new subjects |
12 Dec 2021 |
Erasmatazz |
Exploring Chris Crawford's web site |
15 Oct 2021 |
Designing data-intensive applications |
Impressions of Martin Kleppmann's Designing Data-Intensive Applications and projects at Ink & Switch |
28 Sep 2021 |
Antiques code show |
Alumni event at the Department of Computer Science and Technology in Cambridge |
17 Sep 2021 |
McLuhanish feeling |
Quote from Alan Kay's essay on "The Early History of Smalltalk" |
03 Sep 2021 |
Library research serendipity |
Reading a paper from 1992, from 1992, "Chance in the midst of design: approaches to library research serendipity" |
03 Sep 2021 |
The future of programming |
Thoughts on Bret Victor's talk on "The Future of Programming" |
19 Aug 2021 |
Standing desk |
How I got started using a standing desk |
18 Aug 2021 |
Dvorak |
How I got started with the Dvorak keyboard |
09 Aug 2021 |
Personal mastery |
Quote from Dan Ingalls's essay "Design Principles Behind Smalltalk" |
05 Aug 2021 |
Warburg Library |
Passage about the Warburg Library |
30 Jul 2021 |
Mike Gordon |
Rediscovering Professor Gordon's web site |
23 Jul 2021 |
Text and object |
Quote from Smith and Ungar's essay "Programming as an Experience: The Inspiration for Self" |
16 Jun 2021 |
Humming |
Guardian excerpt from a new book, Anthro-Vision: How Anthropology Can Explain Business and Life |
24 Apr 2021 |
MuseWeb 2021 |
Interesting papers from the MuseWeb 2021 conference |
28 Mar 2021 |
Computers for Cynics |
Ted Nelson's "Computers for Cynics" video series |
21 Mar 2021 |
Incongruity |
Passage from Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions |
13 Mar 2021 |
Forgotten ideas in computer science |
References from a Joe Armstrong talk on "The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science" |
27 Feb 2021 |
Primary sources |
Understanding computer science through seminal papers |
06 Feb 2021 |
Writing to learn |
Reading Zinsser's Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All |
06 Feb 2021 |
WCIT |
Learning about Dame Stephanie Shirley and the Worshipful Company of Information Technologies |
16 Jan 2021 |
Seshat |
Discovering the Seshat project and the study of cliodynamics |
02 Dec 2020 |
The virtue of boring |
Passage from the Google Site Reliability Engineering book |
01 Dec 2020 |
Commonsense psychology |
Notes on Andrew Gordon and Jerry Hobbs's series of papers on commonsense psychology |
01 Dec 2020 |
Commonsense estimation |
Notes on "Optimal Choice of Granularity In Commonsense Estimation" by Jerry Hobbs |
28 Oct 2020 |
Material culture |
Notes on Jules David Prown's "Mind in Matter: An Introduction to Material Culture Theory and Method" |
10 Oct 2020 |
Two logicians and a poet |
Amusing slide from a John Sowa keynote on "Language, Ontology, and the Semantic Web" |
29 Aug 2020 |
Speichertechnik |
Remembering a class I took at the TU Berlin |
11 Jul 2020 |
Under the sun |
Why I study the history of science and technology |
11 Jul 2020 |
Collective intelligence in groups |
Two articles about collective intelligence in groups |
20 Jun 2020 |
Ideas |
Buckminster Fuller and the importance of building prototypes |
13 Jun 2020 |
Andrew Odlyzko |
One of my intellectual heroes |
06 Jun 2020 |
Explainability |
Reflecting on Robert Hoffman's talk about explainable artificial intelligence |
23 May 2020 |
Personal projects |
Using personal projects to learn and experiment |
10 May 2020 |
W. Richard Stevens |
The author of my favorite technical book |
10 May 2020 |
David MacKay |
A professional role model |
06 May 2020 |
How to write a great research paper |
Simon Peyton-Jones's talks for new researchers |
05 May 2020 |
Bill Joy interview |
Passages from a 2003 Wired interview with Bill Joy |
04 May 2020 |
Wheeler lectures |
Enjoying computer science war stories |
04 May 2020 |
Jean Bacon interview |
Video interview with my doctoral advisor |
05 Apr 2020 |
Adjacent possible |
Reading Steven Johnson's How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World |
19 Mar 2020 |
Computational creativity |
Reading papers from the International Conference on Computational Creativity |
07 Mar 2020 |
A clean architecture for semantic web applications |
A talk about recent work I've done on user-facing applications of semantic technologies |
26 Feb 2020 |
Learning to Listen for Design |
Leading a discussion group on a paper from Onward! 2019, "Learning to Listen for Design" by Baniassad, et al. |
28 Nov 2019 |
Strange Loop 2019 |
Interesting talks from The Strange Loop conference |
28 Nov 2019 |
History as a giant data set |
Discovering cliodynamics and the Seshat global history databank |
11 May 2019 |
The CEO as Salesman |
Passage from "Portrait of the CEO as Salesman" |
14 Apr 2019 |
Midwest Junto for the History of Science |
Attending the Midwest Junto for the History of Science |
15 Sep 2018 |
Strange Loop 2018 |
Interesting talks from The Strange Loop conference |
30 Sep 2023 |
Resisting the impersonal |
Focusing on the personal and relational |
27 Sep 2023 |
Good ideas vs. good execution |
Ruminating on the relative abundance of good ideas compared to good execution |
02 Jun 2023 |
Interviewing |
Lessons learned from years of professional interviews |
23 Jan 2022 |
T-shaped |
The concept of T-shaped skills |
08 Jan 2022 |
Tulsa BBS scene |
Reminisces of the Tulsa BBS scene in the early 1990s |
23 Oct 2021 |
What makes a job good? |
Priorities |
14 Feb 2021 |
Optimal experience |
The changing nature of optimal experiences in my work |
30 May 2020 |
Good enough |
The space between "good enough" and gold-plating |
02 May 2020 |
Code is for other people to read |
Thoughts on consistency in software engineering |
13 Apr 2024 |
Paradicms retrospective |
Reflecting on a personal project |
13 Apr 2024 |
Notablist retrospective |
Reflecting on a startup experience |
08 Jan 2024 |
Awesome Software Engineering History |
An Awesome List of books, videos, and other resources for learning about the history of software engineering |
04 Jan 2024 |
Dive Into Schema.org |
Dive Into Schema.org project |
30 Dec 2021 |
Bildungsroman |
Exploring digital exhibitions with curated content |
16 Jan 2021 |
Sharing Historic Costume Collections Online |
Reflecting on "Sharing Historic Costume Collections Online" and how it's shaped my direction since 2015 |
03 Dec 2020 |
Sampo model |
Semantic portals for digital humanities |
16 Sep 2020 |
Events |
Reflections on modeling historical events |
10 Sep 2020 |
Value of curation |
Curation as a process of discovering, understanding, contextualizing, and synthesizing knowledge about the world |
10 Sep 2020 |
CIDOC CRM |
Exploring the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM) |
23 Aug 2020 |
Paradicms |
New personal project: Paradicms, a multi-paradigm Collections Management System (CMS) for small museums and archives |
06 Jun 2020 |
Costume Core 0.4 |
New release of the Costume Core ontology for describing artifacts of historic clothing |
22 Dec 2019 |
DressDiscover |
Revisiting one of my personal projects, DressDiscover, a suite of open source web applications for digital collections of historic clothing |
01 Sep 2019 |
NerdSwipe |
NerdSwipe personal project |
19 Mar 2019 |
ThingsWorth |
Outline of an ongoing personal project, ThingsWorth |
09 Feb 2023 |
Teaching Machine Learning |
Experiences teaching Machine Learning classes at RPI |
05 Jun 2021 |
Mentorship |
Experiences mentoring and being mentored |
04 Sep 2019 |
Test early, test often, and keep your master branch stable |
Talk on software testing |
See the Paradicms blog.