Morning, friends! Last week I posted about Spidergram, the web analysis tool @autogram_is just released on GitHub. Over the holidays, we’ll be doing a lazy, weekdays-only advent calendar — showing interesting tricks and explaining the ideas behind it. github.com/autogram-is/spide…
A Quine is a computer program which takes no input and produces a copy of its own source code as its only output. Here is a quine in Python:
_='_=%r;print _%%_';print _%_
Do you know any? Share them below 👇
Fantastic discussions about structured content, design systems, film theory and Tim Tams, with @eaton at the combine @MelContentStrat and @CBRContentStrat meetups! Please come back again Jeff!
Always a pleasure to talk shop with @brownorama, and this ep. of A Lens A Day was particularly fun. We chat about the complexity of remote facilitation, the difference between content "topics" and "containers", and how planning a workshop is a lot like prepping a D&D session.
If you thought A Lens A Day - Conversations about Information Architecture couldn't get any more esoteric, behold episode 30!
@brownorama and @eaton talk the Lens of Topic vs. Container
"If you're using it like a category, it's a category." -- Jeff
youtu.be/k-KAlXgL-jM
So, last week @beep and I had a fascinating conversation with @petermcreaper and @mkeftz about the work they're doing on @interplayapp; among other things we circled around the ideas Peter mentioned in his post about design artifacts… it's worth a read. pete.studio/notes/design-fil…
“We’re looking for people who want to solve hard problems,” say half the job listings, oblivious to the fact that their hard problems are mostly organizational and not at all interesting or unique.
Evolution of a software engineer’s perspective:
1. It’s about the code!
2. It’s about the design!
3. It’s about the requirements!
4. It’s about the human coordination!
In Spanish, attention is something you lend, in German, something you gift. You “do” attention in Italian and French. Does our relationship with attention change depending on whether we do attention, or gift it, or lend it?
Read more @aredotnaare.na/blog/tenderness-share…
If you or your team need a crash-course in design system fundamentals, @beep has just rolled out four new video training courses on the subject. They're available for free at the @AquentGymnasium! ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/aque…
A tremendous thread full of excellent advice for teams and individuals tackling increasingly interconnected product, service, and business challenges. If you're doing it well, you might be doing Systems work. Welcome to 2021!