Facets as a Formatting Engine
Formatting is an important tool for emphasizing your point. We use it to highlight key parts of our work every day, including when developing services. One interesting example is Facets - a formatting approach in atproto.
Spoiler: Sind "Die Geister von La Spezia" SF?
Es kam immer wieder die Frage auf, ob "Die Geister von La Spezia" ein Fantasy- oder ein Science-Fiction-Roman ist. Benutzt Pat Magie oder Technik, um in die Erinnerung von Mary Shelley zu reisen? Macht es einen Unterschied? Ich persönlich bezeichne das Buch als schwarze Kriminalkomödie mit phantastischen Elementen – vor einem historischen Hintergrund.
Changelog for Oregontennis.org
This is the first year of actual tennis rankings results, we've never had them in the past. tennisreporting -- the official site of the OSAA for tennis recordkeeping -- does track wins and stats, but it's rankings are not very good and are ignored. A coaches poll in tennis like in other sports presupposes you've seen the other teams around the state, but tennis is pretty regional in a large state like ours, so it wouldn't work quite as well.
The Future of Science Depends on Open Source Engineers
The processes of modern science, from how research gets funded and conducted to how it gets published, evaluated, and preserved, were never engineered. They emerged over hundreds of years, built by researchers and institutions one workaround at a time. What we call "the scientific system" is really a patchwork of customs, formats, and platforms that were never designed to work together, never stress-tested at scale, and never designed to evolve.
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Getting My First Swimming Diploma
My updates about swimming keep aging fast, and that's a good sign. Last month, I mentioned I was finally having lessons at the deep end of the pool, and how it was being a blast. So much happened the past three weeks though!
The trait 'jacquard::types::collection::Collection' is not implemented for CreateRecord<'_>
In the code above, the agent.create_record() method requires a type that implements the trait jacquard::types::collection::Collection. The problem is that bookmark_record's type, CreateRecord, does not implement that trait. The types listed here are the only ones that implement that trait.
What we learned from RSL's 4-2 win over San Diego
RSL still can't defend, but who needs to defend when you can score four goals?
On User
User experience, as tool designers imagine themselves to become the user, asks how one might be assisted in expressing inner ideas with the external tool in hand. Experience excites the body to release dopamine, to stir the sensation of purposeful control with which the user can summon satisfying artefacts (satisfying in its aesthetics, expressiveness, and quality). Therefore the process, to some degree universal, can be well defined and then commercialised. Corporations would like to propagate the term, user.
Testing!
This is a test post of something longer form. Starting this Sunday, you'll hear about a few liturgies to formally begin Pope Leo XIV's ministry. Leo XIV is the Pope, with full authority, when he accepts his election without needing any additional liturgy or ritual. Similarly, the King of England became the king immediately upon...
We all make mistakes
We all make mistakes - at any level - but how we deal with them is how we grow.
How do you even start?
Originally posted on Feb 6, 2025
My Developer Advocacy
Originally posted Nov 25, 2024
“Close to Zero”
On May 29, 2024, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek tweeted something that sent shockwaves through the music community: “Today, with the cost of creating content being close to zero, people can share an incredible amount of content”. He later attempted to walk back the statement, calling his definition of “content” (yes, he called music “content”) “clumsy” and “very reductive”. But the damage was done, revealing just how disconnected the billionaire architect of modern music streaming is from the actual econ...