Blog: #learning-in-public

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• David Moldawer on getting your setup right — agreed, getting rid of friction is usually worth it (just make sure to avoid the trap of spending all your time working on your setup and not ever getting to the actual thing you wanted to make) (been there)
• Tania Rascia’s history of what she’s learned as a software developer — stellar example of both learning in public and blogging (and her React tutorial is well done, too)
• Jim Nielsen on Sass color functions in CSS — more verbose, sure, but I think worth it
• Tanya Basu on digital gardens — I think it’s a given at this point that I’ll link to anything that talks about digital gardens
• Matt Webb on Machine English — some fascinating history here, and it’s an interesting idea

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• Robin Sloan on stock and flow — a little old but still good, on creativity
• Niklaus Wirth on lean software (PDF) — even older but also a bounty of wisdom
• Salman Ansari on his digital garden — good points, particularly (for me) the bit about being interested in lots of different things
• Anne Laure Le-Cunff’s digital garden — also good, and I’m reminded I still need to build my own public notes system
• Tiffany Matthé on being okay with not being extraordinary — hear, hear (and what a relief it is)

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I recently came across Maggie Appleton’s article on digital gardens. Oh my goodness, this is delightful. I’m sure some small part of it is just nostalgia for the old days of the web, but the idea seems good and solid nonetheless. I love digital gardens. (See Mike Caulfield’s The Garden and the Stream and Swyx’s Digital Garden Terms of Service for more in this vein.)

Exploring some of these gardens led me to the idea of learning in public (also see Gift Egwuenu’s Learning in Public talk). Very closely related to digital gardens, of course, but a different angle to look at it from. It also nicely parallels the working in public idea I posted about recently.

I’m looking forward to adopting more of these practices myself. Not sure yet exactly what form that will take, but at the moment I’m thinking it’ll probably be the notes system I mentioned. While that would be doable with the website engine I have now, it wouldn’t be very ergonomic, so I’m probably going to retool. (And by probably I mean almost certainly, because I am an inveterate toolmaker at heart. I’ve written out plans for a new version of Slash, my blog engine, that will easily support notes as well as blog posts and web pages. More on that soon.)

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