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Tom Sachs’ 10 Bullets

!?10 Bullets by Tom Sachs on YouTube

1. Work to Code, Creativity Is The Enemy

  • Working to code means, when working at Tom Sachs’ studio, it’s important to remember that there is a system already in place. New ideas will be carefully built on top of those preexisting. Inventions should be conceived out of necessity and not to convenience of the individual.
  • As the video puts it simply, “Work to code.”

2. Sacred Space

How To Work Better

1 DO ONE THING
            AT A TIME
2 KNOW THE PROBLEM
3 LEARN TO LISTEN
4 LEARN TO ASK
         QUESTIONS
5 DISTINGUISH SENSE

Dieter Rams’ Ten Principles to Good Design

  1. Good design is innovative - The possibilities for innovation are not, by any means, exhausted. Technological development is always offering new opportunities for innovative design. But innovative design always develops in tandem with innovative technology, and can never be an end in itself.
  2. Good design makes a product useful - A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.
  3. Good design is aesthetic - The aesthetic quality of a product is integral to its usefulness because products we use every day affect our person and our well-being. But only well-executed objects can be beautiful.
  4. Good design makes a product understandable - It clarifies the product's structure. Better still, it can make the product talk. At best, it is self-explanatory.
  5. Good design is un

Agile Manifesto

We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it.

Through this work we have come to value:

  • Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
  • Working software over comprehensive documentation
  • Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
  • Responding to change over following a plan
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ojas / _index.md
Last active June 30, 2023 12:28
Rules

Rules

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ojas / nginx.txt
Created June 7, 2019 19:44
uwsgi & nginx
server {
listen 80;
server_name tch-activity.apps.sage-iq.com;
root /opt/www/tch-activity;
location / {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}
location /.well-known {
alias /opt/www/tch-activity/.well-known;
}
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ojas / Truncated.md
Created October 23, 2018 16:32
Election 2018

Partisan Races

U.S. Senate, governor, and other statewide offices, U.S. House of Reps., Texas Legislature, Travis Co. offices, judicial races at all levels

Go ahead and vote straight-ticket Democrat. It's OK. This will be your last chance in any event (straight-ticket voting is going away after this election). Just don't forget to scroll through the ballot to get to the rest of these contests.

Austin City Council

  • Mayor: Steve Adler*
  • District 1: Natasha Harper-Madison and Vincent Harding
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ojas / review.md
Last active April 6, 2018 14:24
stanley_meyer_1992_interview_amazing_technology.md

0:00-1:30 look at all those buttons! he stole a tectronix o-scope from the local community college and made it his dashboard? when i was a kid, our next door neighbor had a buggy. American flag, "Jesus Christ is Lord" holy cow, OH plates too! I remember those plates.

2:15 look at the "computer system" look at all those signal capture or processing channels. one channel per slot more or less. that's what it looks like.

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ojas / Chromebook Setup.md
Last active October 14, 2017 16:05
Chromebook Dev Setup

!very rough notes - a work in progress!

Enable Developer Mode:

  • Hold down esc + refresh + power to restart
  • Press ctrl + d to switch to developer mode (warning: this will basically wipe your machine, so save anything you need to save)
  • fix yourself some coffee. it'll take a while and a few reboots
  • login

Install Chromebrew:

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ojas / clfu.md
Created July 19, 2017 15:12
Command Line.md
pbpaste | perl -e 'use URI::Escape; my $url = <STDIN>; chomp $url; my $url = "https://www.pinterest.com/pin/find/?url=" . uri_escape($url); print($url);' | xargs open