Maggie Appleton

> There is nothing stopping any of us to improve the internet. We surround ourselves with good people and good online experiences. This improves our outlook of the internet and staying away from the bad parts helps us grow our minds. In the end feeling good of the time invested online is wonderful. Most definitions I’ve seen of the dead internet are in areas where generative content can be posted wholesale. Mostly everything you see when you google something. However the main counter to this is as you mention: “We surround ourselves with good people and good online experiences.“ If we’re to assume these are 100% real people, then there has to be some sort of gatekeeper. These closed off communities become what Maggie Appleton calls the Cozy Web.[1] That’s great, but it still makes it look like the internet generally is dead. https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest

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We haven't posted a project page yet on the githubnext site! Maggie's talk (https://maggieappleton.com/zero-alignment) is the best reference right now.

Glad you took it in the stride... I wasn't trying to be harsh. TBH, I think it is worthwhile to build an app for yourself first. For a user base of n=1. You might have heard of the Barefoot Developer by Maggie Appleton[1], and also by Robin Sloan[2]. I subscribe to that point of view. I actually like your app idea.. mainly because of my workouts. Except that for my purposes I would want to build one with my analytics in consideration. I am currently noodling over the idea (among my several side projects) [1] https://maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-software [2] https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/

The typography in Maggie Appleton's blog is unparalleled https://maggieappleton.com/

It seems to rehash a much better article by Maggie Appleton. The original has great writing and gorgeous illustrations. This is actually a good example of how much better the human-written original is to its AI slop copy. https://maggieappleton.com/forest-talk

This reminds me so much of Maggie Appleton blog post on "Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers" [1] We have so many people who are so excellent and fast and developing nowadays that we can even afford the time to build things for our community, friends and even just for ourselves. It has probably always been like this, but I am just personally observing a higher-degree of people doing and talking about it. Even just the small-web/neocities bobble points into this. [1] https://maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-software

These are some ways I’ve been using the web in a way that keeps me free. - Run my own site (not much there yet) - Use RSS Feeds instead of Reddit - If a YouTube creator you like has a newsletter, SIGN UP! - If a short form content creator makes long form content, watch that instead - Post on forums, instead of their subreddit/Discord (lots of Linux distros have all three) - Invest in my cozy web communities[1] Speaking of the last one there, newsletters, RSS feeds and forums are the best way to be in control of the hose of content. Will these ever be as “big” as the monolithic platforms? No. That’s okay. 1: https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest

Are you trying to stick with company blogs primarily, or to expand into general non-affiliated eng blogs? People like Maggie Appleton (https://maggieappleton.com/) and Patrick McKenzie (https://www.kalzumeus.com/) frequently have compelling ideas around technology, but I suppose that's a different "product" from what a company blog is selling.

I always enjoy reading Maggie Appleton's blog posts: https://maggieappleton.com And I always learn from the very deep signal processing fun on Absorptions: https://www.windytan.com

The cursors don’t move on iOS Safari for me, but I love that people are trying things like this! Maggie Appleton has explored some ideas about how to make the presence indicators feel less intrusive: https://maggieappleton.com/ambient-copresence

The ever excellent Maggie Appleton covered Speculative Calendar Events (trying to find a time) recently & Hey got a shout-out for their maybe events. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38940275 https://maggieappleton.com/speculative-events

> dear farmer. Thanks, I've been trying to build a digital garden (or a cemetery) for some time, but with interconnected sites/articles/toys on different domains rather than a single Obsidian Publish style site. Tangent: I recently found a beautiful and extremely well structured digital garden made by Maggie Appleton (https://maggieappleton.com). So, now I'm just jumping between either being inspired by the amount of research she's shared or analysis paralysis since there are so many interesting approaches to the subject matter.

Great to see a Maggie Appleton reference! She also did a talk on Tools for Thought in April 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6uhvFGPUE0 (she's the first half of the video) And she has an unfinished blog post on the topic as well: https://maggieappleton.com/tools-for-thought

Great content, bringing context & view to a long schizm of systems. And talking about ways forwards that start to expose the reapmpower, bridge end users from their low capability zone into something that they can keep elevating themselves with. > Programming portals are small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that give users access to command lines and text-based programmaing. They open a little window into the underlying functionality of an interface. One that lets the user view the underlying properties of their environment, and control a specific set of data, objects, or features of the application. I think of Maggie's excellent excellent overview of digital gardens as their defining post[1], but it's grear to see some less meta excellent works from this garden of ideas. [1] https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history

Always gonna plug Maggie Appleton's seminal work on digital gardening whenever conversations about personal knowledge systems come up. It has some great resources in there https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history

Nostr's very cool tech and I'm excited to see where it ends up. But I'm not sure it'll make for good social networks/apps that I'll care about. ActivityPub and Matrix get flak on the account portability issue and it's a valid one but it (and their design in general) provide a pressure on their communities to be very "cozy-web"[0] despite the few leviathan instances. Nostr's more than flexible (almost under-specified) that you can build your cozy spaces on top of it but I'm convinced its design allows it to be a real decentralized contender for the big social and I fear that's where its custodians are headed. It won't be long before we see Nostr service providers that replace all the core functionalities of Twitter like a good algorithm and moderation[1]. Personally, I don't want Twitter with pki. I don't want Twitter at all. I really hope Nostr keeps it cozy but hey, at least you'll get to personally choose your algorithm. [0]: https://maggieappleton.com/cozy-web [1]: https://primal.net has a great start

If you mean databases as in a "Personal Information System" (notes, tasks, catalogs, etc.), I use Grist and Tana. Grist [1] is an "augmented" but still "classic" relational DB builder. It is (kind of) open-source, backed by SQLite, and you can self-host it. I like it because it is user-friendly while also being highly programmable (Python formulas, widget grid) and "data-friendly" (nice filters, Merge imports...) Tana [2] is a less classic kind of DB. The main view is an "advanced" outliner (like Roam). But every line of text could also act as an "universal Form" and a "node" in a semantic graph DB. Wherever and whenever you type, you can turn your unstructured, freeform blocks of text into "as you go" structured data. This works well for Evergreen-Notes [3], Tasks, Contacts... A bonus : for any kind of references (and not just citations), Zotero is very flexible. As local/opensource personal DBs go, it is a solid bookmark manager and pdfs-annotations store. [1] https://www.getgrist.com/ [2] https://tana.inc/ [3] https://maggieappleton.com/evergreens

Something I've been thinking about is what happens once the market for software developers becomes saturated. I think the answer is something along the lines of blending traditionally off-line skills (illustration, etc), domain knowledge, and software together. The ability to leverage the scale of the internet is still a form of tech-thinking, even if the software engineering part is not the main focus. I think software alone has relatively fewer problems left to solve compared to solutions that require multi-domain thinking. So for the situation you've outlined, I think there is tremendous value in blending healthcare and software, or art and software. There are people who have found a niche in blending these ideas together [0], and I think the trend will continue. So you shouldn't despair that your kids are not interested in "tech" now. It could be that once they are comfortable with their first domain choice, they will recognize the value in tech-enabled growth. You can then be there to help them realize that value by introducing system and algorithmic thinking, as well as tooling like vi or emacs. [0] https://maggieappleton.com/

Lesswrong for both sidebars: the heading based TOC on the left, and the margin notes on the right: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bJ2haLkcGeLtTWaD5/welcome-to-lesswrong For interactive / code snippets Maxime Heckel: https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/the-study-of-shaders-with-react-th… Honorable mentions Maggie Applebaum https://maggieappleton.com/ai-enlightenment Marek Chotoborski https://zanlib.dev/blog/number-inputs-in-react/ Line width, sane fonts, avoiding clever shit unless very polished, gets you a long way.

That looks pretty close in shape to the early Ace project Maggie Appleton demonstrated last month. Edit: This short talk – https://maggieappleton.com/zero-alignment

Reminds me of this blog post and conference presentation on home cooked software by Maggie Appleton. https://maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-software

One term for these is "home-cooked" software. https://maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-software

> I know I work at GitHub so that might sound heretical, but I promise it’s not controversial for me to say it. Very few people internally believe that PRs and issues are ideal primitives for the future of engineering. And there are a lots of us inside the machine exploring what comes next. From GitHub's Staff Research Engineer https://maggieappleton.com/zero-alignment/

GitHub is going to go after this too (unsurprisingly). Working "Ace" prototype from Github "lab." https://maggieappleton.com/zero-alignment/

Interesting. How does this book stack up to Maggie Appleton‘s Dark Forest hypothesis? It’s been some time already since she made it. https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest

I think Maggie uses home-cooked here and it works for me because of the extended analogy https://maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-software

> I wonder what went wrong with our society. Predators. https://maggieappleton.com/cozy-web

Reminds me of an article from last year https://maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-software

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