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They're releasing macOS a whole month earlier than usual, with fewer beta releases than usual. I believe this is the first time they will have released macOS and iOS on the same date.

When I got a job in academia and was faced with creating my first conference poster, I was amazed to discover PowerPoint is the customary software for creating them. It does a pretty good job, too.

This happens a lot in PDX and it makes me furious. It's like putting a hit out on the pedestrian crossing the street. I would like to see how the people honking their horns would like it if someone called for their death.

More than one. Here's two sources indicating at least four more lawyers out there using fake ChatGPT case citations.

https://reason.com/volokh/2023/05/27/a-partner-at-a-big-firm...

https://twitter.com/narrowlytaylord/status/16620971840770129...

This is a good basic overview, goes beyond tagging/indexing, was the textbook in LIS501 Information Organization and Access at UIUC-GSLIS (now the iSchool at Illinois) in 2006:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262512619/the-intellectual-foun...

Controlled vocab standards:

https://www.niso.org/publications/ansiniso-z3919-2005-r2010

(this one is deprecated in favor the one that follows)

https://www.niso.org/schemas/iso25964

https://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/

The book we used in my thesaurus construction class at UIUC:

https://www.alastore.ala.org/content/essential-thesaurus-con...

My favorite intro to semantic modeling with RDF/OWL/SPARQL:

http://workingontologist.org/

Topic Maps are dead but i still have a soft spot for them:

https://www.isotopicmaps.org/

I also recommend Heather Hedden, linked in jrockhind's post.

No, it's old, and an outdated mindset. Since 2004 Wikipedia has greatly matured and most educators have relaxed their stance on it. I'm a librarian and my take on Wikipedia is that it's a great starting point but you'd never want to cite it directly.

I miss Topic Maps.

Lots of criticism collated at the article's PubPeer page:

https://pubpeer.com/publications/693A0D3B374ACED0103ADDEA0D9...

The PubPeer browser extension is worthwhile: https://pubpeer.com/static/extensions

Evolution doesn't necessarily imply "new species" (species is actually a pretty vague term) and dictionary definitions are limited.

Try this resource instead: https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_01

There's a bunch of Electronic Lab Notebook platforms out there, someone already replied to you mentioning OSF. Others include Benchling and LabArchives. This Nature article is a good starting point, it has links to several universities' ELN guides. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05895-3

Most todo apps don't really cater to the idea of a reusable list. Items effectively disappear once checked off, unless they're repeatable, in which case a new task is generated at the frequency you specify. There are lists of things that need doing repeatedly but not necessarily on a strict repeating schedule. Packing for travel and/or camping is a typical use case, as is a grocery list. You want a reusable prepopulated list of things you might need for any given trip.

This is excellent work! I've currently got all my reusable checklists in Remember the Milk, but they get lost in there among all my other hundreds of todos.

I'm always surprised how few todo apps seem to target reusable lists, it's definitely an overlooked niche. Back in the Palm Pilot and early iOS days, SplashData's SplashShopper app was fantastic at this, but they don't seem to be able to keep up with modern application development update/release cycles and it's slowly become unusable over time.

Anyway- you asked for feature requests.

1. Consider making lists organizable in some way -- make them nestable or categorizeable. Like, my travel checklist in RTM consists of multiple sub-lists: clothing, electronics, toiletries, medical, etc. Splash Shopper does this with a sortable category on each item.

2. Consider adding prepopulated lists, particularly for things like groceries where the list can have lots of common items, will likely be long, and building it from scratch may feel daunting.

3. Consider having separate views for all the items on the list vs. everything that currently needs checking off. Like, when I travel or go grocery shopping, I may not need everything on the whole list. Let me build a list from a bank of all the items in the list rather than forcing me to uncheck everything in order to reuse the list and then prune the stuff that I don't need on the list for this particular trip.

Interesting. I've never been a patron of a public library in the United States that charged patrons fees for ILL, and neither of the universities I've attended charged for it, either.

My own academic library where I work used to have a per-semester limit and charged for requests over it but we eliminated it for a number of reasons, one of which was that it was skewing our acquisition decisions. When we did charge, the cost was less than what you'd pay at a publisher's website.

It is true that some vendor content doesn't allow ILL, but it's in the minority. In 2009 the Information Delivery Services Project found around 15% of publishers do not permit ILL at all while 46% permit it with no restrictions. The rest are in-between, applying restrictions like no lending outside of the US or to commercial entities. https://idsproject.org/documents/IDS%20Project%20licensing.p...

I think there was less awareness around ASD at the time and people didn’t really talk about it the way they do now. That said, it links to the classic “Fanspeak” at the bottom, which does mention Aspergers.

I read it before the stuff about the replicability issues surfaced and got around 75% through it. There’s useful stuff in it but it’s too long and I quit because it started to feel like he was repeating himself. He needed a better editor. As I read it I wondered if his editor was too intimidated by his Nobel Prize to do their job well.

Does your institution's library not offer interlibrary loan?

Given that her research is heavily focused on how people learn how to program, I can't imagine that any recommendations she might have regarding speed reading code would not be informed by her research.

A cursory look at what I suspect is your GitHub profile reveals you could stand to learn something about good variable naming.

Her research focuses on the cognitive processes involved in learning programming and teaching it effectively, which means her audience is likely new/novice programmers. And it's not like one of the oldest jokes about programming doesn't point out how difficult naming things is, which is a side effect of how difficult abstraction can be.

I self-diagnosed Aspergers in the mid 2000s. The primarily inattentive subtype of ADHD is a better match for my symptoms, particularly the social ones, but both my psychiatrist and neuropsychologist agreed that my self-diagnosis made sense and I have traits of both disorders. They are very often comorbid. I just wasn't familiar enough with the diagnostic criteria of ADHD to realize I had it. (A roommate with ADHD that I had at the time suggested it, though.)

Also, ADHD is in fact under-diagnosed, particularly in adults and especially in women.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4195639/

Some children are overmedicated, but there's evidence it's also underdiagnosed in children.

Since ADHD is a neurobiological disorder that people are born with, and because undiagnosed ADHD can cause depression, it should be ruled out before diagnosing depression. Same with anxiety.

There's a growing group of psychologists who say laziness is a myth. It doesn't exist. When someone is being what we would call lazy, there is almost always something else going on.

https://humanparts.medium.com/laziness-does-not-exist-3af27e...

I'm really glad to see that this is the top comment. This was my first reaction too, sounds a lot like ADHD.

It's ADHD when it seriously negatively affects your quality of life.

Yes yes yes to all of this!

I was fortunate to have a local medical school with a psychiatry department that has an Adult ADHD clinic where I could seek a diagnosis at the age of 42. Unlike many adults who suspect they have ADHD, I was taken seriously and did not encounter any skepticism on the part of my healthcare providers. I even expressed concern that my problem could be anxiety or depression instead, and my psychiatrist said "If you have undiagnosed ADHD, of course you're going to be anxious and depressed." Find the most expert ADHD person you can for diagnosis and prescribing medication, I really think this is key.

I also agree on not giving up on medication, I had to try three before I found one that worked without also having negative side effects. There's at least one other one I'd like to try, mostly out of curiosity.

I've worked with both a therapist with ADHD expertise and an ADHD coach. My therapist helps me accept my ADHD brain, my coach helps me figure out how to work with it instead of against it. I agree coaching is more helpful but it works best if you can accept the way your brain works instead of trying to fight or change it, so seeing a therapist first to work through that might be a good idea.

I've been listening to a lot of ADHD audiobooks lately. The one I've liked best so far is Nancy Ratey's _The Disorganized Mind_ -- she has ADHD herself and she's the wife of John Ratey, co-author of Driven to Distraction. She kind of invented ADHD coaching and the book is about how to coach yourself.

When I started my career in software testing 20 years ago, the Socratic method was my best friend. It's a great way to lead a developer to a bug. Instead of getting defensive, they're extremely motivated to fix it.

You're making some rather uncharitable assumptions here. Simon is a very skilled and accomplished developer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Willison

Skylight for iOS https://apps.apple.com/us/app/skylight-sun-clock/id110775991...

I installed it out of spite a couple months ago and it's one of the best decisions I've made during the pandemic. It has brought me so much cheer. I expected it to be dumb, instead it's been delightful. I'm not sure it's possible to understand the appeal of TikTok without trying it yourself and seeing what the algorithm does.

This approach is really common in academic libraries, but there candidates typically only get one topic so they can be more easily compared with each other.

I got to use Ada for eight months in 1997, on a co-op at Rockwell-Collins in their General Aviation department. I learned and wrote a lot of Ada and I loved it. When I had to go back to school in the fall, I was no longer interested in writing C++ and it kind of bummed me out to have to use it again.