too much focus on the ‘indie’ (building complicated self-hosted everything-machines) and not enough on the ‘web’

A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox.

another way to put this is um that if you think about using a telescope an example that alan offered us a little while ago to examine celestial objects as indeed did 00:20:37 galileo you can only interpret the output of that telescope the things you see in the telescope correctly if we actually know how it works that's really obviously true about 00:20:48 things like radio telescopes and infrared telescopes but it's true of optical telescopes as well as paul fire opened emphasized if you don't have a theory of optics then when you aim your telescope at jupiter and look at the 00:21:00 moons all you see are bits of light on a piece of glass you need to believe to know how the telescope works in order to understand those as moons orbiting a planet 00:21:12 so to put it crudely if we don't know how the instrument that we're using uh if we don't know how the instrument that we're using to mediate our access to the world works if we don't understand it we don't know whether we're looking through 00:21:24 a great telescope or a kaleidoscope and we don't know whether we're using a pre a properly constructed radio telescope or just playing a fantasy video game

“harm-to-help”

Instrument is the general term that researchers use for a measurement device (survey, test, questionnaire, etc.). To help distinguish between instrument and instrumentation, consider that the instrument is the device and instrumentation is the course of action (the process of developing, testing, and using the device).

light microscopes

Personally, I think class is too blunt an instrument — it breaks encapsulation, allowing component consumers to change styles that they probably shouldn't, while also denying them a predictable interface for targeting individual styles, or setting theme properties globally

We also believe that this explicit API should be relatively granular and work at the selector or value level, not at the element level. This is why we think classes are "a blunt instrument", as Rich put it. Exposing even a single class gives you a clear entry point to the entire component's markup allowing complete control over every aspect. We need a more granular way for a component to define an explicit style interface.

Drum Synth Kit/Assembled

Yale Collection of Musical Instruments

Cold calling, no product to see, contract sent in the post as soon as they said 'Yes' at the appropriate moment.

There was nothing. I was nobody. I resolved myself to make the box a job.

Some or the new instruments or science arc, ./ """\ \ themselves, sciences; others arc arts; still others, c\v,W{' . producL'i of either art or nature

easily supported by Slack

Given my background as linux sysadmin and tutor, it only makes sense if the revolution looks to me like an open source software stack for schools.

Intellectual property is far more egalitarian. Of limited duration and obtainable by anyone, intellectual property can be seen as a reward, an empowering instrument, for the talented upstarts Burke sought to restrain. Intellectual property is often the propertization of what we call "talent." It tends to shift the balance toward the talented newcomers whom Burke mistrusted