Geoffrey Litt

@geoffreylitt

researching programming tools for all • PhD student at • ex eng 🇯🇵🇺🇸

Cambridge, MA
Vrijeme pridruživanja: prosinac 2010.

Medijski sadržaj

  1. 6. velj

    Learning a program as learning a new instrument

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  2. 6. velj

    When do programs die? A great answer:

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  3. 5. velj

    For example, take that heatmap and make two little tweaks: * paint rects -> paint circles * encode count as color -> encode as size and you get this new design. I have no idea if this thing has an official name or how I'd make it in Excel

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  4. 5. velj

    Started learning Vega-Lite... fascinating how my design process is changed by using a well-designed "grammar of graphics" with powerful primitives and composition, instead of customizing Excel's prefab charts »

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  5. 4. velj

    Who wants to bet the crappy vendor they overpaid for this shiny new election app told them to say “user error”?

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  6. 2. velj
    Odgovor korisnicima

    Do you have any experience playing with the BeOS filesystem? This description sounds so intriguing to me but I'm curious how it works in practice

  7. 2. velj
    Odgovor korisnicima

    I've found Michel Beaudouin-Lafon's work in this area super exciting.. (12:00 in this talk: why can't I use one colorpicker in every app?)

  8. 2. velj
    Odgovor korisnicima

    It's amazing how many common "idioms" there are in software, particularly for organizing stuff -- and yet how hard it is to actually reuse these idioms across apps. My advisor Daniel Jackson has been thinking about this for a while:

  9. 2. velj
    Odgovor korisniku/ci

    yep, exactly... this article () has a harsh take but doesn't seem totally wrong I don't think it's as simple as "Ted dreamed, Tim shipped" but there's something there

  10. 2. velj

    This fact always blows my mind: the Web “browser” didn’t start out a browser. Creation and editing cane first!!! (IIRC, Netscape later took it in the browsing-only direction)

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  11. 2. velj

    I’m increasingly convinced demos and prototypes are the only really effective way to communicate a software vision. TBL got it. So did Jobs, Bret Victor, Engelbart

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  12. 2. velj

    Ted Nelson had the hypertext vision, but Tim Berners Lee had the savviness to sell it

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  13. 30. sij
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  14. 24. sij
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  15. 24. sij

    The Entropy of Counsel

  16. 22. sij
    Odgovor korisnicima

    Apparently I need to learn what a bidirectional type system is...

  17. 22. sij

    TIL you can write custom Excel formulas in Javascript that stream live updating data into the sheet 🤯

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  18. 19. sij

    Interesting hypothesis: the history of ignoring interaction in computing stems from the outdated model of human cognition as deliberate reasoning

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  19. 15. sij

    Either Siri is surprisingly incompetent or it’s been hacked by the Russians

  20. 13. sij

    On "tools" vs "machines": "the power loom is a machine, and its significance as a destroyer of culture lies in the fact that it does the essentially human part of the work"

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