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☞ Open-Ended Software as Human Beings
☞ the Linnaean Instinct and List-Making - Samuel Arbesman
1. SQLite Is Serverless - sqlite.org
1. SQLite Is Serverless
208. Ultimate Guide to Platforms
216. United States v. Apple - Steven Sinofsky
219. On AI Requiring a New OS - Steven Sinofsky
A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration
A Map of Sync - convex.dev
A Smart Bear » The roadmap to ProductMarket Fit… maybe - Jason Cohen
A Taxonomy of Approaches to Capability Amplification - ought.org
A Wild Christianity
Adding to the Corpus of Ideas, Some Observations on Process - alexanderobenauer.com
AI and the Big Five - Stratechery by Ben Thompson
AI Is About to Completely Change How You Use Computers - Bill Gates
AI’s $600B Question - David Cahn
Aim, Fire, Scan The 8020 of Executing on Big Projects - Indie Hackers
Almost Everyone I’ve Met Would Be Well-Served Thinking More About What to Focus On - Henrik Karlsson
Ambient Co-Presence - Maggie Appleton
America Against America
An App Can Be a Home-Cooked Meal - Robin Sloan
An Itemized Personal Computing Timeline - alexanderobenauer.com
An Open Letter to Parents, Teachers and Others From Parents of an Exceptionally Gifted Child
Announcing AI Camp Native Applications - John Borthwick
App as Potluck - Henry's Zoo
Apple Intelligence is Right On Time - Ben Thompson
AppleScript History of the Project - William R. Cook
As We May Think by Vannevar Bush
Atjson
Atomic Attributes in Local-First Sync - adamwulf.me
Balancing Makers and Takers to Scale and Sustain Open Source
Bitcoin A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Building Digital Humans - Altera
Cargo Cult Science
Cleaned-Up Transcript of Rich Hickey's Talk Deconstructing the Database · GitHub
Coase's Theory of the Firm
Coding Is Not the New Literacy
Collective Intelligence, Multi-Agent Debate, & AGI - Michael Dempsey
Compositional Components, Emergent Protocols - Gordon Brander
Decent Imaginaries
Defining the Dimensions of the Space of Computing
Devine Lu Linvega
Embark-Dynamic Documents for Making Plans
Epistemic Calibration and Searching the Space of Truth - thesephist.com
Evangelicalism, Protestantism, and John Damascene on the Devil
Eve Blog - incidentalcomplexity.com
Exorcising Myself of the Primer - Andy Matuschak
Feedback Is All You Need
Framing the Future of the Internet - Packy McCormick
Friday Note Vocational Training for the Soul
From Bing to Sydney
From Tools to Environments - Stefan Lesser
Fully Typed Web Apps - Kent C. Dodds
Gardens Need Walls On Boundaries, Ritual, and Beauty
Get Ahead of the Future An Interview With Amjad Masad
Going Home With Wendell Berry - Amanda Petrusich
Harmony in Architecture
High, Exceptional & Profound Giftedness
Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers - Maggie Appleton
How can we develop transformative tools for thought? by Matuschak and Nielsen
How I Wrote Looking for Alice
How Might We Learn - Andy Matuschak
How SQLite Works
How to Do Great Work
How to Use AI to Create Role-Play Scenarios for Your Students - Ethan Mollick
HOW TO USE CONSCIOUS PURPOSE WITHOUT WRECKING EVERYTHING
HyperCard What Could Have Been - Leander Kahney
HyperCard@25 - Joho the Blog
I. From GPT-4 to AGI Counting the OOMs - SITUATIONAL AWARENESS - The Decade Ahead
In Praise of the Particular, and Other Lessons From 2023 - Andy Matuschak
Interoperable Serendipity - Noel De Martin
Interview Kevin Kelly, Editor, Author, and Futurist
Is It a Cheetah
Kid Pix - The Early Years - Craig Hickman
Lessons From History’s Greatest R&D Labs - Eric Gilliam
Leverage Points Places to Intervene in a System
Living Documents as a UX Pattern in AI - Adam Wiggins
Local-first Software by Peter van Hardenberg et al
Lost Tools of Learning by Dorothy Sayers
Magic, Mundanity and Deep Protocolization
Making the Garden - Christopher Alexander
Making the Garden
Malleable Software in the Age of LLMs
Manifesto Rules for Standards-Makers - Dave Winer
Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel - Internal Tech Emails
Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday An Open Letter - Tim Berners-Lee
Mathematical Theory of Communication
Memex Is Already Here, It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed - Memex is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed
Memorandum for Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network - J.C.R. Licklider
Metaverse Primer
No Revival for the Industrial Research Lab
Notes on Craigmod's Running a Successful Membership Subscription Program
Notes on How To Raise Money
Notes on Memberships Work
Opinion the Canary - Washington Post - Michael Lewis
Paradigm Shifts for the Decentralized Web
Parse, Don’t Validate - lexi-lambda.github.io
Peer to Peer Databases - mauve.moe
Place value as soulcraft
Pond Brains and GPT-4
Potluck - Dynamic documents as personal software
Principles for Innovation Orgs
Protocol Fiction, Desire, and Belief
Ratcheting progress in tools for thought
Reflections and Updates After the First Year of a Membership Program, and How the Core Work Is Evolving in Its Next Year. - alexanderobenauer.com
Remembering Apple’s Newton, 30 Years On
Revenge of the Humanities - Steven Johnson
Seymour Papert - What's the big idea? Toward a pedagogy of idea power
Solving a Work Problem
Specifications for an organic and human building system
Spring '83 protocol
SQLite as an Application File Format
Squaring Zooko's Triangle
Startup = Growth - Paul Graham
Stop Writing Dead Programs by Jack Rusher
Supervise Process, not Outcomes - ought.org
Systems design explains the world volume 1
Technical Dimensions of Programming Systems
The Art of Training Young People - Benjamin Parry
The Best AIs Will Be Constructed, Not Emergent - samaya.ai
The Canonical and Charismatic Forms of Ministry and Revelation – The Case of Paul - Jackson Shepard
The Cross and the Machine
The Death of Church and Pub - Carl R. Trueman
The future needs files - Scott Jenson
The Humane Dozen Mel Conway
The Neon God
The Politics of N.I.C.E.
The Potential Merits of an Itemized OS - Alexander Obenauer
The Rise of Worse Is Better
The Shifting Dynamics & Meta-Moats of AI - Michael Dempsey
The slab and the permacomputer
The State Management Library Front-Ends Are Looking for Is a Database
The Triumph and Terror of Wang Huning
The Universal
The Visual Basic Team Leads at Microsoft Right After Visual Basic 1.0 Shipped - retool.com
Theological Discourse and the Recovery of Sacred Form
Thoughts on Recruiting - markmcgranaghan.com
Tools and Platforms - Jack Cheng
Trust at Scale Auto-Evaluation for High-Stakes LLM Accuracy - The Elicit Blog
Trygve - .PDF
Upwelling
Webstrates Shareable Dynamic Media
What Is the Cognitive Engineering Lab - Brown University
What to Learn by Dan Luu
What We Learned Doing Fast Grants
What We Learned From a Year of Building With LLMs - Bryan Bischof
What’s Your 20 Mile March - Brett & Kate McKay
When should an idea that smells like research be a startup
Where Did Software Go Wrong
Why Not RDF in the AT Protocol - Paul Frazee
Why the Fuss About Conversational Programming-2
Why the Fuss About Conversational Programming
Why Work? by Dorothy Sayers
Working From Orbit
Writing as Communion - Henrik Karlsson
You Could Extinguish a Star - Robin Sloan
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Specifications for an organic and human building system

by Christopher Alexander

Key Attributes:

  1. A common pattern language
  2. User design
  3. Repair and piecemeal growth
  4. A human-scale building system

User Design
Users must once again design their own environment.

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