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xamdeon The beginner's guide to overcomplicating coffee

The ROK is a nice way to make Espresso. Manual pressure. Try it .

xamdeon I wish Asciidoc was more popular

Edit in sublime Text, save, See the browser window on the other monitor (portrait orientation) update, tweak, repeat... That is my workflow for long and short Docs. AsciidoctorJs Chrome Extension is the glue.

xamdeon Nushell: Introduction to a new kind of shell

Should have been called nutshell

xamdeon Graphviz 7

The next step are tools like featdoc which let you define systems and interaction rules which then generate a (mermaid) sequence diagram.

Example at https://dev.azure.com/itmv/Coffee%20Shop/_wiki/wikis/Coffee-...

Project at https://github.com/Calpano/featdoc

Disclosure: I maintain this project

xamdeon Technology Choices for My SaaS in Retrospect

Good link. So cross platform UI as an idea is dead.

xamdeon How can we develop transformative tools for thought? (2019) [pdf]

Infinitymaps.io has network structure and very, very deep zooming abilities

xamdeon Music for Programming

I set my self timers on my smart phone or Google Assistant device. Just like you do in JavaScript.

xamdeon Mermaid: Create diagrams and visualizations using text and code

What is a topological chart?

xamdeon Excel 2.0 – Is there a better visual data model than a grid of cells?

Better than a grid of cells? a tree/graph of rows/grids...

xamdeon Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-East-1) Region

There is this really nice website which explains how complex systems fail: https://how.complexsystems.fail/

xamdeon The universe has already made almost all the stars it will ever make

CATS ARE NICE (Death in Discworld)

xamdeon Agile at 20: The Failed Rebellion

Nice explanation. Amusingly, it explains why NO kind of informed change can happen in a hierarchical organisation.

xamdeon Comic Mono

Hmm, your andecdata is not backed by studies, it seems https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5934461/ - the paper concludes, any more or less normal font works for dislexic readers, too. Interletter spacing (but not too mich) and font size help, though.

xamdeon Show HN: GradientMagic

Off-topic, but please tell us more about the diagramming app.

xamdeon Stopping phishing campaigns with Bash

Is it a protected computer?

xamdeon Create diagrams with code using Graphviz

PlantUML is a good syntax. Under the hood... it renders via GraphViz

xamdeon Knowledge Graphs

The paper reads like an index into a number of related research fields. One running example, very concise explanations, maaaany references.

xamdeon How to brainstorm great business ideas

I loved the mom test so much, I created a summary slide deck. I used the content in every seminar and talk on Entrepreneurship.

https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/xamde/summary-of-the-mom-t...

xamdeon Requirements volatility is the core problem of software engineering

Requirements are hard, but the core problem of software engineering is complexity.

xamdeon Markdeep – plain text documents with diagrams, equations, and Markdown syntax

Diagrams with PlantUML in AsciiDoc are quite efficient. Faster than powerpoint.

xamdeon Why we need a book about naming

There is a book with at least a chapter on it: https://wiki.c2.com/?DataAndReality

xamdeon Polymath: A Markup Language for Everything

Nice, also look into AsciiDoc, which is a surprisingly well designed markup language for similar purposes.

xamdeon Worms fail to thrive in soil containing microplastics: study

I stopped to believe the individuals can vote with their wallets to stop the pollution. We are not enough people who care and there are too many things to consider. We need to fight the system using the mechanisms of the system. If pollution costs money, capitalism will optimize to minimize pollution. It depends on the price. We need politics to change the rules. I would advocate to use your time to make destroying the earth costly.

xamdeon Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text (2018)

AsciiDoc! As nice as org-mode syntax, but with "=" instead of "*". Also, has code blocks so copy&paste is nicer. Also, has one giant document explaining everything.

xamdeon Things I have learnt as the software engineering lead of a multinational

A great article mostly nailing problem descriptions. This is usually represented too briefly. I believe “The Entropic Organization” (Teo) would be a highly cited book, cited by all kinds of management books emphasizing the solutions. Please, write TEO.

xamdeon Infinitown – A WebGL Experiment

Wow, this town has good cell phone coverage :-)

xamdeon Reusable Software? Just Don't Write Generic Code

Sometimes generic code is clearer than non-generic code. Although this is rare.

xamdeon Ask HN: What's the best way to stay up to date with software dependency updates?

https://www.versioneye.com

xamdeon iOS 7 Parallax Background in JS

Hi, just to round up the thread: http://bit.ly/layersdepth is a version done in GWT, less pretty, but you can also use the arrow keys to simulate an accelerometer if your device doesn't have one. Plus, it works on my old iPhone 3GS with iOS5, while most links in this thread did not.