Thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.
Thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.
Classes stolen from MasterClass, republished as wikiHow articles.
[Run AI LLMs locally on your computer]
ChatGPT interface without signup.
[Instead of voting yes or no, rate all options on a scale of 0 through 5 and calculate multiple rounds in one session.]
A visual overview of useful skills to learn as a web developer.
Reminds me of the trees from DuoLingo.
[Friendly explainer and guide to getting started with RSS feeds.]
Find people to talk to or collaborate with by searching across the /about, /ideas and /now pages of 6692 personal websites.
You've just made a website, but now you're unsure where to go from here. Here are some ideas for things to add and techniques to learn.
Nice way to discover RSS feeds from your fediverse friends and neighbours.
Wikipedia places nearby you on a map.
Tagged: digital.
[DRAFT] FAST Accessibility Checklist
[Look for these cues to ensure accessibility: visual content (like images, video); changeable color; input controls; interaction features; audio content; time limits; text-only input.]
Tagged: inclusive.
[Look for these cues to handle underlying localization: natural language text for humans (in error messages, UI text, JSON strings, etc…); interactions with text through a keyboard or cursor; searching, matching, sorting text; capturing user input; represents time; deals with names, addresses, time formats, etc…; references any cultural norms.]
Tagged: inclusive.
Each branch of Joe's hugo-testing git repository is a scratchpad where he has over 750 attempted 'solutions' to help different people on the Hugo forum. Seems like discovery requires starting at a specific topic (as opposed to searching for the problem or solution), but it's quite organized the way it is. How might being this prolific in helping others impact one's own skills?
Tagged: idea, contribute.
I've been to the Hackerspace Wiki before to find local places while travelling. I didn't know they had hackerspace apps listing, software wishlists.
Their design patterns library includes The Community Pattern:
set up a mailing list, a wiki, and an IRC channel. You will need all three. Think about a platform for discussion, storage for documentation and real-time communication.
[You need at least two people to start an idea and two more to get work done. It's easy to recruit once you have four people, and best to get started with ten.]
[Infrastructure first or projects first? By making everything infrastructure-driven, people will come up with contributions you would have never thought about.]
World map of 24x365 average temperature fingerprints
The temperature fingerprints cover every day of the year horizontally, and every hour of the day vertically
The "cheap" web is a solarpunk philosophy of web design.
cheap ≠ free
cheap ≠ sleek
cheap ≠ creep
cheap ≠ deep
cheap ≠ dark
cheap = cheap
[cheap to maintain: should work indefinitely without falling over].
[cheap to access: should be compatible with screen readers and various devices.]
[cheap to explore: should be pleasant on low power devices.]
[cheap to contribute: creating and hosting websites should be easier than scrapbooking.]
Visualize a life compressed into blocks of one week and grouped be decade. The simple data file is written in YAML. This could be useful to help write one's autobiography.
Tagged: idea.
Most items appear in the timeline at the time they were created.
If an item attribute can be updated, such as by completing a to-do, a small update line appears at that time in the timeline.
If an item is scheduled for a future date or time, it appears there instead, and a simple update line appears at the time it was created and / or scheduled.
I see updates appear in my timeline when she schedules something. This is a very helpful transaction or record; I now know she set up an appointment for something I’m going to with her, or that she set up a meeting in the future, without any kind of extra “notification” feature, and without having to check future dates regularly for updates.
The more you hit “review later”, the longer it takes for the item to return, allowing items you’re less interested in to “float away” from you without requiring more destructive or detailed actions.
you can’t edit an existing note. Instead, you build on past notes using replies: you can reply to any past note with a new one that goes into your timeline now, forming a thread.
Much easier to compile buckets for ideas when you don't need to label them—this is why people can write so much on micro-blogging platforms.
Monitor for the room volume level made by the CDC.
Tagged: wellness.