2015-05-11-18-39-16

Writing

• AI summaries and AI healthcare (links & notes) 20 March 2023
• Keeping up with and assessing AI research (links & notes) 13 March 2023
• Waiting for the AI Godot (Links & Notes) 6 March 2023
• Copyright, Situating Search, and other links & notes 27 February 2023
• Deno, Shakespeare's Emoticon, Return to Office, and other links and notes 20 February 2023
• Book production, AI, Single-Page-Apps, and other links and notes 13 February 2023
• Some thoughts on how to make a book, three months after I made one 10 February 2023
• AI is a Hail Mary pass and other links & notes 6 February 2023
• EU and copyright protections for AI-generated works and other notes 30 January 2023
• On the Layoffs, Narcissists, and Other Links & Notes 23 January 2023
• Madeline, Existential Terror and other links & notes 16 January 2023
• Out of the Software Crisis Available on Kindle 28 December 2022
• A lot can happen in a month: on AI art and the fediverse 16 December 2022
• The response to Out of the Software Crisis has been amazing 5 December 2022
• Programming is a Pop Culture 21 November 2022
• WTF is a Framework? 18 November 2022
• Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to software companies 16 November 2022
• Great apps are rare 15 November 2022
• (Released!) Out of the Software Crisis: Systems-Thinking for Software Projects 14 November 2022
• Out of the Software Crisis: the ebook is imminent! 11 November 2022
• I wrote a book – now you must suffer with me 26 October 2022
• I’m offering research, writing, and notetaking coaching for techies and programmers 17 October 2022
• Playacting genius: the performative logic of reasoning from first principles 18 September 2022
• I don't care how you web dev; I just need more better web apps 4 July 2022
• Essay Archive 2 June 2022
• On online collaboration and our obligations as makers of software 2 June 2022
• The different kinds of notes 6 May 2022
• What I learned about markdown from interviewing a bunch of people 6 May 2022
• The Colophon Cards User Survey 2 February 2022
• How to keep up with web development without falling into despair 31 January 2022
• Let's just not talk about 2021 and look forward instead 5 January 2022
• Making Colophon Cards 29 November 2021
• What do I need to read to be a great at CSS? 19 October 2021
• The event listening toolkit: five ways to get out of an event handling mess 11 October 2021
• FormData and fetch, why is serialising a form such a pain? 29 September 2021
• The Single-Page-App Morality Play 6 September 2021
• Software Crisis 2.0 25 August 2021
• Lessons in Interactivity, 2021 redux 13 August 2021
• Nobody gives a hoot about groupthink 29 July 2021
• Spontant: in praise of grey 26 July 2021
• Ways of reading without the influence of community 6 July 2021
• The Open-Source Software bubble that is and the blogging bubble that was 11 May 2021
• You are what you do, not what you say or write 4 May 2021
• The Curious Case Of The Crashing Conic Gradient And How I Used A Technique I Learned In The 90s To Fix It 28 April 2021
• 136 facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to landscape painting or nude modelling 21 April 2021
• I’m available for projects and other work 20 April 2021
• Which type of novelty-seeking web developer are you? 31 March 2021
• Every Day; a Fair Warning (You Should Read These Articles) 3 March 2020
• Weeknote 3 - Resistance and the dull blade 10 February 2020
• Weeknote 2 (2020) - News, Bad News, and Star Wars 2 February 2020
• Weeknote 1 (2020) - Ending the hiatus 26 January 2020
• The Ed Tech Conundrum 2 January 2020
• Thinking about the past, present, and future of web development 1 January 2020
• The Web Falls Apart 3 November 2019
• Weeknote 19 ─ blog redesign and changes at work 27 October 2019
• When life hands you lemonades, sit down and contemplate the meaning of life 10 September 2019
• Weeknote 18 - Uncertainty and Discomfort 11 August 2019
• Web Dev: The Red Queen Wire Mommy of Modern Tech 6 August 2019
• Weeknote 16 – Vacation 29 July 2019
• Weeknote 15 - Counting Down the Days 1 July 2019
• Weeknote 14 - Shadows and DOMs 25 June 2019
• Weeknote 13 - The weight of deadlines 16 June 2019
• That Web Dev Thing Where Everybody Says Something Clever Involving Toast 15 June 2019
• SwiftUI, Privacy, macOS, and the Web 9 June 2019
• Weeknote 12 - The genres of web media 5 June 2019
• The Aesthetics of Concentration 3 June 2019
• Weeknote 11 - do I have focus? 29 May 2019
• Weeknote 10 - A clear view and more reading 20 May 2019
• Weeknote 9 - Being contemplative, finishing a photo project 12 May 2019
• Weeknote 8 – Moving, Endgame, and more musings on colour 5 May 2019
• Weeknote 7 - Story length and that thing about colour 29 April 2019
• Weeknote 6 – Star Trek, rest and spring finally arrives 22 April 2019
• Weeknote 5 – Stuff, comics, superheroes, and other nonsense 14 April 2019
• Weeknote 4 – TV week with The Expanse 7 April 2019
• Weeknote 3 — MVPs, fatigue, and emotional crutches 31 March 2019
• Web Development: with great power comes the ability to make great mistakes 24 March 2019
• Weeknote 2 - Web Development Mistakes, Mary Sues, and Icy Spring 24 March 2019
• Weeknote 1 18 March 2019
• Hitchcock and the author construct 12 February 2019
• Seams, Stitches, And The Decline Of The Mac 3 November 2018
• Neither Paper Nor Digital Does Active Reading Well 3 September 2018
• Focusing on market share blinds you to growth 7 January 2018
• The future of Software Development: Just Business Logic 7 January 2018
• Remote work is a completely different beast 7 January 2018
• Hypertext is still the fundamental model of the web 7 January 2018
• Leftover Thoughts From 2017 7 January 2018
• Over-engineering is under-engineering 25 November 2017
• The process is the thing 23 March 2017
• Von Be Don: A few notes on a recent digital publishing project in Iceland 19 February 2017
• W3C and EME: it isn't about preventing DRM but saving the W3C 14 February 2017
• Unpopular opinion: dismissing indirect pointers is a mistake 4 February 2017
• Anger feels like poison 24 January 2017
• Is JavaScript more fragile? 7 December 2016
• Debating Progressive Enhancement 5 December 2016
• The downside of believing in Apple 1 November 2016
• A short primer on Icelandic politics on the day of the 2016 election 29 October 2016
• The Tragedy/Farce of the Open Web according to journalists 18 October 2016
• Notes on debating for the web development community 17 October 2016
• Addendum on loose coupling and the iOS App Store 11 October 2016
• Idle thoughts on modularity and loose coupling in digital media 9 October 2016
• When fear is rational 24 June 2016
• Once upon a time, I couldn't imagine a better word processor than Word 7 June 2016
• A thought to consider 24 May 2016
• A few thoughts on standardisation, W3C, and the IDPF 16 May 2016
• Filling in the gaps – the dynamics of zero marginal cost 21 April 2016
• Which CMS/blog system would you choose? 12 April 2016
• A few simplified points on web and document security 30 March 2016
• Judge the work 21 January 2016
• Why did Paul Graham argue against equality? 13 January 2016
• Purpose, Joy, Capability 4 January 2016
• You can't fix the App Store, so here's how you fix it 20 November 2015
• Why I am worried about Twitter and why you should be too 4 November 2015
• The crossroads or the wilderness 23 October 2015
• You can't solve people problems with software 28 September 2015
• The discussion about ad blocking is very dumb (but not in the way you think) 18 September 2015
• This is not a book, but it is a podcast 10 September 2015
• A week of 'This is not a book' 7 September 2015
• Launching "This is not a book" – what it is and why you should be interested 1 September 2015
• My kingdom for a new bookstore 28 August 2015
• Modern software sucks 26 August 2015
• The cost versus benefits of disorganised programming power 25 August 2015
• Who benefits the most from Open Source Software? 25 August 2015
• Sex Apocalypse Later 24 August 2015
• Random thoughts on work and that Amazon thing 23 August 2015
• Bookmarks – UI flaws and other great capers 14 August 2015
• Bookmarks – learnable programming 13 August 2015
• Bookmarks – More money for open-source 12 August 2015
• Bookmarks – Leaving bosses 11 August 2015
• Bookmarks – Promoting other people's work 10 August 2015
• Bookmarks – What Would Kamala Khan Do? 7 August 2015
• Bookmarks – Trickle down golden geese 6 August 2015
• Bookmarks – Hateviews are us 5 August 2015
• Bookmarks – Milk it 4 August 2015
• Iterating the web away:
  losing the next generation 4 August 2015
• Bookmarks – You haven't been paying attention 3 August 2015
• Bookmarks – It's a note card world, we just live in it 31 July 2015
• Bookmarks – Just call it Smylfeste 30 July 2015
• Bookmarks – That one is shaped like an idiot 29 July 2015
• Blogger nostalgia 28 July 2015
• Bookmarks – Make it simpler 28 July 2015
• Wet streets cause rain and criminal responsibility 27 July 2015
• Tweet bookmarks galore 26 July 2015
• Random links that catch my fancy, part four of ∞ 23 July 2015
• Random links that catch my fancy, part three of ∞ 22 July 2015
• Mythic visions of sexuality 21 July 2015
• Random links that catch my fancy, part two of ∞ 21 July 2015
• Random links that catch my fancy, part one of ∞ 20 July 2015
• An exercise for the reader in integration and modularity 17 July 2015
• How to read my nonsense 17 July 2015
• Is it distributed or just a disorganised hierarchy? 10 July 2015
• On the vaunted robustness of the web 10 July 2015
• The rules of the game have changed for RSS 10 July 2015
• The web app developer's lament 6 July 2015
• Other people write about digital media 25 June 2015
• The plural of 'Medium' is clearly 'clusterfuck' 25 June 2015
• Burnout 24 June 2015
• The files Steven Pressfield works with 24 June 2015
• iOS 9 content blocking extensions are not a mobile advertising armageddon 14 June 2015
• Writing the Other:
  a book that's useful to all writers 3 June 2015
• Should I make a WWDC prediction?
  Yes, let's 3 June 2015
• Grim Meathook Present #2 2 June 2015
• Other people discuss software quality (spoiler: it sucks) 2 June 2015
• Other people talk about startups and entrepreneurship 2 June 2015
• A few quick links and thoughts on big web problems 29 May 2015
• I really want the Supergirl TV show to be fun 25 May 2015
• Our Grim Meathook Present 25 May 2015
• The new age of HTML:
  the web is being torn apart 20 May 2015
• Her movie, his name;
  Mad Max: Fury Road 19 May 2015
• We are a violent species 19 May 2015
• Toxic environments:
  inequality in tech is a symptom of something worse 18 May 2015
• Where I write about Facebook's Instant Articles 16 May 2015
• Facebook and the media:
  united, they attack the web 15 May 2015
• Speeding up decision cycles with rules and heuristics 14 May 2015
• You are here #5:
  UX, design, and CSS as a parasite 14 May 2015
• You are here #4:
  an epic journey through app dev and male bodies 13 May 2015
• You are here #3:
  the glorious wonders of online reading await you 12 May 2015
• 2015-05-11-18-39-16 11 May 2015
• You are here #2:
  an artisanal curation of reading material 11 May 2015
• You are here #1:
  a selection of fine links and tweets for your pleasure 10 May 2015
• 2015-05-07-00-59-18 7 May 2015
• Five publishing-related thoughts on a Friday afternoon 4 May 2015
• Why should people read more books? 4 May 2015
• How is taxing ebooks as print books supposed to work? 4 May 2015
• Kathy Sierra's Badass: Making Users Awesome – the book you all should read 4 March 2015
• Idle Sunday thoughts about web trends 1 March 2015
• Repetition only works in fiction 1 March 2015
• The web has covered the basics — that’s why it’ll get harder from now 1 March 2015
• A draft of a chapter of some thoughts on things. 9 January 2015
• Taking stock of 2013 and 2014 31 December 2014
• The weather, of course 17 December 2014
• Publishing business ideas are a dime a dozen 3 December 2014
• EU VAT changes shift the digital landscape 25 November 2014
• Money is a poor measure of value 25 November 2014
• On conferences 13 November 2014
• Crushed by multinationals 12 November 2014
• Software as a strategy: prefabricated publishers 7 November 2014
• Software as strategy in the ebook world 6 November 2014
• The five types of unpublished books 5 November 2014
• Four hundred words from Anita Elberse's book "Blockbusters" 4 November 2014
• The splintered author 4 November 2014
• There is no war between Amazon and Traditional Publishing 3 November 2014
• Ebooks suck for learning 10 October 2014
• The Poisoning of Social Media: A Reading List 9 September 2014
• Wobbly Amazon 10 August 2014
• This week's must-read post 24 July 2014
• Friends don’t let their friends become authors 10 July 2014
• Both at the same time 4 July 2014
• So I had to make an ebook cover... 15 April 2014
• So long, Readmill, and thanks for all the fish 31 March 2014
• What ebook production problems are self-publishers facing? 24 March 2014
• Many stories, many truths 13 March 2014
• Problem statements for digital publishing research 28 February 2014
• To do, to do 21 February 2014
• iBooks Author tempts you with bling 20 February 2014
• Microsoft Word is a liability 19 February 2014
• The print design mentality 18 February 2014
• Book contracts 12 February 2014
• Intermission: sorting through the banal 5 February 2014
• How to create value with a new thing 30 January 2014
• HTML is too complex 29 January 2014
• The ebook as an API 28 January 2014
• My last word on DRM 27 January 2014
• Except, except, except 23 January 2014
• A thought exercise 22 January 2014
• Losing faith in yourself 21 January 2014
• Changing your readership mix 20 January 2014
• Sex, education, readers, and futures: what works, what doesn't 18 January 2014
• The various types of readers 17 January 2014
• The unevenly distributed ebook future 16 January 2014
• Sex, violence, and stílbrot 15 January 2014
• Recipe for pundit response to Hugh Howey’s suggestions 14 January 2014
• Bling it up for education 13 January 2014
• Blogging has trained me to assume you’re stupid 9 January 2014
• Ergodic literature 8 January 2014
• What I thought I wanted versus what I really wanted 7 January 2014
• The mistake of 'enhancing' novels 6 January 2014
• Pessimistic ramblings and other fun links (week overview + further reading) 4 January 2014
• Stumbling into publishing 3 January 2014
• The publishing industry's new product categories 2 January 2014
• The last two Knights and Necromancers stories 1 January 2014
• Random, loosely connected, thoughts on the future 31 December 2013
• Old photos posted without context: Reykjavík Cats 29 December 2013
• Old photos posted without context: Sweep After Use 22 December 2013
• The Checklist: fix iBooks image handling 20 December 2013
• Great text transcends nothing 17 December 2013
• Quarantine all ebooks 17 October 2013
• The self-publisher's perspective of the ebook market 17 October 2013
• Light evening trauma 10 October 2013
• Just say no to ebook CSS and JS 2 October 2013
• The Google Wave Heuristic 17 September 2013
• Amazon's biggest ally is Apple 12 September 2013
• Readmill versus Kindle – Readmill is worth the hassle 26 August 2013
• Proprietary ebook formats versus DRM 19 August 2013
• Publishing has catered to dumb for a long while 16 August 2013
• Computers are too difficult and people are computer illiterate 14 August 2013
• Why disruption goes unchecked 12 August 2013
• Make ebooks worth it 9 August 2013
• Ebooks and cognitive mapping 8 August 2013
• Ebook silos, update 7 August 2013
• Ebook silos and missed opportunities 6 August 2013
• Technology is not inherently good 5 August 2013
• Administrative note on baldurbjarnason.com and feeds 29 July 2013
• Posted without comment 29 July 2013
• The inefficiencies of joy 24 July 2013
• Winner takes all versus the Matthew effect 23 July 2013
• What you people read (on my websites) 22 July 2013
• Tolerating the heat, noticing the water 19 July 2013
• If the Kindle fails so will ebooks 18 July 2013
• Followup to 'this ebook is a lemon' 16 July 2013
• This ebook is a lemon 12 July 2013
• Caught between madmen and mercenaries 10 July 2013
• Major update to Studio Tendra's Oz project 3 July 2013
• What are self-publishing's biggest pain points? 1 July 2013
• Intellectual terrain 1 July 2013
• Good books don't win 26 June 2013
• Why does it matter? 10 May 2013
• The OZ Reading Club: Books three and four 7 May 2013
• Which kind of innovation? 3 May 2013
• Books and Print Showcase 2 May 2013
• Peasants 30 April 2013
• For the love 14 April 2013
• The idiocies of young men 5 April 2013
• Studio Tendra's grand and marvellous Oz Reading Club 2 April 2013
• Iceland’s ‘crowd-sourced’ constitution is dead 29 March 2013
• The B&N fallacy 27 February 2013
• Hire me! 19 February 2013
• A question only you can answer 15 February 2013
• Respect the reader 6 February 2013
• 33 observations on the year 2012 5 February 2013
• Knights and Necromancers: new books and megapacks! 4 February 2013
• The falcon's shriek 2 January 2013
• What is actually going on in Iceland 29 December 2012
• Merry Christmas! 25 December 2012
• Tag soup is history 21 December 2012
• Schlock 15 December 2012
• Strange definitions of 'nice' 5 December 2012
• Books of Christmas Past 4 December 2012
• Using IDs in CSS 26 November 2012
• Design highlights from the Icelandic book season 22 November 2012
• News, updates, and the Icelandic book market 19 November 2012
• A response, of sorts 15 November 2012
• High tide and a room of your own 8 November 2012
• Knights and Necromancers 2 has been released 6 November 2012
• The comment-fiction challenge post-mortem 30 October 2012
• Fantasy, Collapse, and a sense of history 29 October 2012
• Two questions on putting books on the web 26 October 2012
• iBooks 3.0 25 October 2012
• Perceptions of society 22 October 2012
• What I've been up to 19 October 2012
• The Readmill comment fiction challenge 1 October 2012
• Is it safe? 27 September 2012
• The time work takes 24 September 2012
• I need your help 21 September 2012
• Designing the covers 19 September 2012
• Free Kindle version 19 September 2012
• What is this? 17 September 2012
• The stillborn creature 1 August 2012
• EPUB javascript security 27 July 2012
• I be writing 21 July 2012
• Farce 16 July 2012
• Bad writing 19 June 2012
• A few random points on DRM 7 June 2012
• The web and ebooks have little in common 7 May 2012
• The end of ebook development 26 April 2012
• Aftermath – notes on the Amazon post 20 April 2012
• Today is not tomorrow (or, how to beat Amazon) 15 April 2012
• Bits, bobs, and anecdata 3 April 2012
• Lessons in interactivity 29 March 2012
• Hierarchies of ebook design 20 March 2012
• It's time to treat ebook developers as developers 12 March 2012
• Code doesn't change minds 7 March 2012
• Game over, Amazon wins 3 March 2012
• On CSS Page Templates 2 March 2012
• Javascript in ebooks 29 February 2012
• Explanatory windows 20 February 2012
• Readium and other good intentions 13 February 2012
• ePub windows and widgets – a proposal 10 February 2012
• The semantics of ebook widgets 4 February 2012
• iBooks widgets – to javascript or not to javascript 1 February 2012
• What do we want from the Kindle platform? 1 February 2012
• Disruptive crap 27 January 2012
• Me, elsewhere 26 January 2012
• The pros and cons of the iBooks 2.0 textbook format 21 January 2012
• The iBooks 2.0 built-in widgets 20 January 2012
• The iBooks 2.0 textbook format 19 January 2012
• The publishing animal 17 January 2012
• A day of innovation on the future of the book 8 December 2011
• What a publisher does 30 November 2011
• Design pseudoscience 8 November 2011
• A tale of three blog posts 28 October 2011
• CSS and ebook design 24 October 2011
• The loss of ambient intimacy 15 September 2011
• Friday links and reading 26 August 2011
• Convert or engage 4 August 2011
• CSS3 Hyphens 30 July 2011
• Just you & Google 29 July 2011
• Knowledge is not adoption 24 July 2011
• HTML5 history API 23 July 2011
• Your friends, in boxes 17 July 2011
• Localstorage & messaging in ePub 27 January 2011
• Javascript in epub 26 January 2011
• An epub experiment 25 January 2011
• What is an ebook? 21 December 2010
• Hypotheses and testing 25 October 2010
• Identifying publishing innovators 7 October 2010
• On quality in publishing 7 October 2010
• An interesting discussion 28 June 2010