The Town Square
Let's have a village pump to show what we're working on? (Kind of using the homepage for that at the moment.) Well, I'm not sure that's a village pump though—that was intended for meta-thoughts about the site
This is Globspace’s place for banter, barter, and keeping score.
What are you thinking about?
The seeds of Globspace pages are page ideas, and the gametes the seeds come from are thoughts. This section records what we’re thinking about, which might become a page idea and eventually a page.
dpk
- Eric Gill, An Essay on Typography. The difference between industry and handicraft. What Gill would make of digital typography and the automation of things (like word wrapping) which were once uniquely human; and perhaps applying his lessons to the crude typography and design medium that is the web.
- Related: work in an ‘industrial’ job is ‘sub-human’; work in ‘handicraft’ is ‘human’ — what a strange mix of the two we have created with modern work lives.
- Big numbers and success are disjoint.
- The bespoke web; reviving the best of Peak Web.
- Deep ends, in the metaphorical sense; why it’s painful to be thrown into them, and why I do it anyway.
- “The bits must get through” — a more rational alternative to “Information wants to be free”
- The creative manifesto (1. Make) — the generalization of many
- Finding the core of my ethos — what drives me to do the particular set of things I do, and why that might be harmful. I’m fairly sure at the core of all the things I’ve spent the last 19 years having fun with (programming, music, writing, typography, a little graphic design) there's some core which will guide me to some greater thing. I don't know. Perhaps this is just quarter-life bullshit.
- High expectations of oneself, and why they might be harmful. Cf. conversation with Kragen.
cajg
- Dreaming and daydreaming, also the concious creation of (miniature) visual fantasies
- The use of software as a black box rather than a monolithic interface structure (for job work more than creative work), specifically for accountancy software, see ledger and reckon
- The cliché of enjoying the journey, pottering about with camera equipment versus actually getting the great photo
- Making a living by making work, from which, according to Hacker News, I should fire myself, so better not start
- The probability effects on state of mind of prior actions, régimes, habits
- Nash equilibria and the binary value of confidence in fiat money vs. stuffs
- Ooh, look! Budget!
sbp
- My brain is full of pony. Well at the moment I'm listening to Downside Up on Sixteen Men of Tain, and thinking about how Holdsworth uses his MIDI guitar to achieve stringed instrument effects in a woodwind style instrument. It's pretty fascinating
- As usual I'm also thinking about imagination and creativity. I think these are mostly filler words, but who can ever tell these days?
- Oh and programming. ADTs float around my head, some of them lurk under mysterious tree trunks blown over in the mists. Lots of ideas of things that I want to program. Feels like the vital elements of programming are changing in our minds, changing the landscape beneath us
- I'm thinking a lot about some of the things that Lauren said, but I can't talk about any of those here. I told dpk I'd NOSPOIL, and when I NOSPOIL I do the usual pro job that you expect from sbp
- I dunno, I feel a bit like Dylan after he'd done the Albert Hall Concert, the one in Don't Look Back. Lots of stuff going on right now, and I'm doing so many things
- Also, don't put punctuation at the end of your list items
- I'd like to work on a symbolic language I think, still. But it doesn't seem very exciting to me. I want to get into mountaineering or something, I think. There's something about mountains
patbam
- As usual, I am thinking about how to do language documentation better.
- The thought that I (like many others) am pondering lately is the strangely beautiful realization that EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE is JSON (or at least, arrays and objects).
- So specifically, what I have been thinking about is what the “right” (simplest, most extensible) way to put documentation into JSON.
- Concomitantly, there need to be editing tools that are ergonomic. Linguists (like programmers) have too much pain inputting data. Right now I'm thinking about trying to use backbone.js to build a glossing interface…
- I want to draw up a description of what the thing should look like on paper, instaed of continuing to expand my collection of Small Pieces, Not Joined in Any Way Whatsoever.
- As a sideline of this project, I've become interested in the History of Interlinear Glossing
What are you working on that’s not a Globspace page?
dpk