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“Just” don’t

June 26, 2020

When explaining your favorite tool, ya wanna say “just install this!” “Simply change the configuration.” “Customizing it is easy.” Don’t! Steps that feel easy, simple, trivial to you are that way because of the experience you have in the tool. You understand how it works, you know what it’s like to install it, you understand …

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Tags context, documentation, Generativity, learning

Design by implementation

May 26, 2019May 20, 2019

We can develop things faster than we can define them. @jryanday I’ve remarked before that @cdupuis can implement new features way faster than I can document them. This is not ridiculous; creating something is often faster than connecting it to existing people who can use it. Ryan took this farther: we can’t even define what …

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