JOODALOOP

In the last two months, I have made a total of 256 commits to the this site’s Git repo.

If you feel like commenting on this post, send me an e-mail at judah@joodaloop.com.

This project is in-development and has a public repository.

There have been a handful of times in my career (now 3 years long) where I have made something and known it was the most perfect version possible.

Internet community architecture can be seen as a bi-level optimization design, similar to evolution or economics or war or reinforcement learning.

How to make one The fact is, that we have written this book as a first step in the society-wide process by which people will gradually become conscious of their own pattern languages, and work to improve them.

I often talk to people about how getting better at self-driven work requires accumulating many small tricks and stratagems to keep from falling off — like body doubling, app blocking, and stopping in the middle.

I’ve an app with this name once before, and it wasn’t good enough for me to use, even though I put a lot of work into the design (conceptual and visual) and performance.

When syncing data to a client, you can express what the client needs by either: Live queries (arbitrary, requires a running server) A pre-calculated subset of data (user’s working set) Live queries are in most ways the superior way to do things.

When working on any long-running software project, I like to maintain one large note tracking my goals, design ideas, influences and references, dead ends, etc.

Design decisions thumbs up/down as a rating scale I want to avoid just having a long list of items of everything I’ve ever consumed.

A few people with great media lists: Gavin Leech’s Reading page Justin Duke’s Media section Huh, that’s way less people than I’d expected.

(time and the future) — Kent de Bruin Exploring the future of the calendar designing time — Aaron Lewis Timekeeping is politics by other means engineering write-ups / blogs / vids — Yihui H. interesting write-ups / videos about engineering challenges, bre…

Design decisions what happens in real life stays in real life Everything on the microsite would only deal with activities that happened on a screen.

I hand-made a microsite of things I think are universally good purchases.

design things i wouldn’t do as a designer thread of dishonest design interfaces that make text a first class citizen ai work data thread of types of reactions from programmers to LLM progress misc. tradeoffs thread “indicators of continued childhood” inst…

Around a year ago, I wrote about how the current design of my site had proved undislodgable.

For the longest time, I lived in a terrific awe at the magic of the build step.

I’ve added a new top-level page to this site.

In the before times (pre-enslopification of Twitter, and pre-LLMs (some would say they’re the same thing)), I had an exchange with Imp that produced the list you see below.

If I had stats and figures to back this up, I’d turn it into a proper post.

Talks “Transactions: myths, surprises and opportunities”: The best explanation of the various consistency and isolation levels in database I’ve ever seen.

From an information design standpoint, the analog 3-handed clock is pretty terrible, needing a glance at three disparate points and multiple spatial calculations to arrive at a few numbers.

Obviously, many of these opinions are more personal than objective.

If you haven’t heard of calibration cases, you should read Commoncog’s introduction to them.

A sense of chronic unease or acute worry experienced while interacting with a user interface.

It’s been over two decades since Wordpress first launched.

This is not an uncommon sentiment – you may have seen this graphic floating around the internet as a dunk on the Apple design team.

The easiest way to write this post is to re-trace the steps I took myself to get here.

We all have our own suboptimal behaviours, which are usually as revealing as they are load-bearing.

I spent a couple hours yesterday cleaning up my Github repos for all the versions of this site I’ve created over time.

I make at least 2 sites a month, most of them are static and written in plain HTML and CSS as much as possible.

The majority of these come from my dabbling in the local-first ecosystem for the past 2–3 years.

I’m trying out a new format on this site: conversations.

I don’t have much to say here yet, the point of this post is to link you to Innovation depends on Gift Culture.

It will only go live in June , July , August September (!!!)