hci - Fastidious Elegance

Un-directed programming

Various forms of "directed" programming have become very popular these days. However, I find that many of these are too restrictive and not conducive to what I consider a "human" creative approach to programming. Sometimes, it's nice to have a

apl

APL Style: Patterns and Anti-patterns in APL

I gave the following talk at Dyalog '17 this year. I think it was a lot of fun, but I had to go through the slides pretty fast. I encourage anyone interested in the topic to go through the Sway presentation more carefully in

browser

Reading List vs. Tabs: A Better Workflow

I have long held that having many tabs open in your browser was a poor way to work. A bunch of tiny icons filling up the top of your screen with stuff to read in whatever order you happened to get them put there

windows

Windows 10 Workflow Tip: Multiple Desktops and Tiling

Windows 10 has the concept of multiple desktops. This is an extremely useful feature, but I suspect that most people use multiple desktops in only one of a few ways. For most people, multiple desktops serve as an organizing method at a relatively coarse

rhel

RHEL 7.2 Desktop Win

RHEL 7.2 includes a new Gnome 3.14 and incorporates some improvements from Gnome 3.16. This makes me very happy. The classic problem I have with RHEL is that it is a great development platform, with a stable interface and a good