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Jan 17

Multiple Undo (the first time around)

Design patterns and principles when stuff is “new” Tldr reflecting on an early 1990s discussion about how to present “multiple undo” to users in Microsoft Word Why am I writing this Earlier this morning, I was part of a design class conversation about the convention of “which direction do scrollbars and trackpad panning work, and…

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Multiple Undo (the first time around)
Multiple Undo (the first time around)

Jan 1

Books, 2021

tl;dr some book recommendations since the last time I did this. I’m downstream of and benefit from a lot of good book recommendations. Passing some of them along here. (As always, I welcome book suggestions and recommendations!) There has to be something better than Medium. Recommendations welcome in comments. Just flat out good, clean, well-written joy I’m…

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Jun 9, 2021

Attending a city council meeting

So about local government… — After all the US-wide, uh, excitement over the last four years, I started paying more attention to local government in the city where I live. I’ve been attending public meetings, reading the briefing packets… I even sat in on the budget process. A couple of observations from attending a bunch…

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Attending a city council meeting
Attending a city council meeting

May 18, 2020

Talking past each other at scale

Tl;dr Reminders from a volunteer effort to build an app for the World Health Organization (WHO) about the basics of working with large organizations There’s a volunteer effort helping the World Health Organization deliver an app for people, beyond the governments and health and policy professionals that WHO technology typically…

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Talking past each other at scale
Talking past each other at scale

May 12, 2020

A better camera for your video meetings

tl;dr using a DSLR as a webcam Who doesn’t want to look better? Turns out that the front facing cameras on most devices… aren’t that great. Nicer webcams are backordered and/or jacked up in price. Q uestion: Can you use your nice relatively newish digital camera? Answer: Maybe. I am…

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A better camera for your video meetings
A better camera for your video meetings

Aug 31, 2019

Books, 2019.1

tl;dr some book recommendations since the last one I’m downstream of and benefit from a lot of good book recommendations. Passing some of them along here. (As always, I welcome book suggestions and recommendations!) There has to be something better than Medium. Recommendations welcome in comments. Strongly Recommended Fiction The First Fifteen Lives…

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Dec 21, 2018

List: links related to personal security/data practices

tl;dr will updated this write-up based on feedback :) Framing (not sure who to attribute to): 1. Make it harder for a bad person to get into the accounts you care about the most. 2. Make it easier for you to recover if something bad (account compromise, lost/stolen device, etc.)…

Java Script

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Nov 2, 2018

Books, 2018

tl;dr book recommendations since the last one — Getting a jump on writing up the end of year book list. (I guess I missed last year’s, oops, so this one is long). My intent is to add a little extra signal on top of the abundant lists that are out this time year for readers. I’ll start with…

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Oct 31, 2018

Test Post

Subhead — In Safari on the iPad it looks great. In the app on iPad, not as much… :( This is a list Aligned. Still aligned. The baseline here works. The baseline continues to work. Yep, it’s pretty But wait. As the list approaches the 10th item… Something a bit off… Happens. …

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Test Post
Test Post

Sep 5, 2017

Stop Accidentally Deleting Conversations in Messages on the Mac

tl;dr how to protect against accidentally deleting an entire conversation in Messages on your Mac The second time this week on my Mac that I accidentally blew away the entire conversation history with someone in Messages, I decided to make it much harder to mess up this way again. For…

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Stop Accidentally Deleting Conversations in Messages on the Mac
Stop Accidentally Deleting Conversations in Messages on the Mac
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