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App Development Pattern Language (Book)
I listened to a talk the other day, lamenting how Design Patterns never evolved past a few mid-level patterns. The original A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander is much more ... hypertextual. And granular. (It's a great book, by the way.) That was when I found that I know a lot of stuff about app development that… -
Re: Choosing software
Choosing software 202110010514 Welcome. What are your fields of study? That can often help you focus on which software stack to employ. I'm curious, what time zone are you in? I'm in Pacific Daylight Time. There is no need to abandon any of the software you listed, but none of them contain the fundamentals needed in the… -
Re: Choosing software
20210930124708 Reply to @tamarwilner on Zettelkasten software If you are using MacOS, I recommend The Archive--others here have experience with this. If you are using Windows, I use Zettlr+Pandoc+MikTeX+Zotero+BetterBibTeX.* This works almost out-of-the-box, with one minor change to Zettlr.† The setup is a little more… -
Re: Why do you not use monospace fonts?
I am preparing a blogpost on monospace fonts and the benefits of them. But I think I should share a short version upfront because I don't know when we will publish it (some work should be done before hand): Allows for clear design of structure notes Monospace allows for a very clear design for structure notes. This is due… -
Re: Techniques for tag heirarchies?
Then again, Flickr used key--value-combo tags like #country:USA for a while in the beginning. Camel-cased tags are not a good fit if you want to use stuff like this for technical processing -- which, frankly, is the only useful application of these kind of tags. I used tag hierarchies for my earliest del.icio.us bookmarks.…