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 wild, messy, and non-linear space in

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 their own time. You can find

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 just doesn't make much sense. Not

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 grained level. They probably have a

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 set of tools enabling very nice