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UX Design Textbook
by JamesAs part of of the "team UX" at work we're doing a bookclub to make sure we all have good foundations in UX before making it a company offering. We're starting with two books: The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman, and UXใใถใคใณใฎๆ็งๆธ (The UX Design Textbook) by Masaya Andou.
While I work reading and writing Japanese all day (when I'm not slinging code), I haven't read a book in Japanese in ages. This is mostly because what I'm interested in ( technology, the web etc...) is usually written about in English well before Japanese. And since I can read English natively, it's natural for me to pick those books.
Starting to read UXใใถใคใณใฎๆ็งๆธ yesterday and the first thing that hit me is how much my Japanese has improved in the last 4 years. I used to struggle reading texts written for native-speakers as I had large gaps in my kanji recognition abilities. Gaps still exist. But now they're small enough that reading a single page doesn't take 20 minutes as I look up every 5th word. Only taken me...20 years(!) to come the far.
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by JamesWith webmentions working, next up I want to tackle support for check-ins. Currently I'm using OwnYourSwarm to backfeed my checkins to my main site and I'd like to continue doing so with Tanzawa.
Doing so requires that I add support for IndieAuth (so I can login using just my domain) and Micropub. I'm starting on the IndieAuth implementation, which means I need to actually start with a login page for users to authenticate (thus far I've been using the django admin).
This is what it's looking like so far. Something feels off in the design of it, but I can't quite place my finger on what it is.The base login form -
A short list of things cooler than Clubhouse
by JamesInspired by Seth's Chasing the cool kids, I've made a short list of things that are cooler than Clubhouse.
- Not caring what the "cool" kids are doing and doing your own thing.
- Building and learning about the systems that make the world go around.
- Not uploading your entire contact list to some random company so you can eavesdrop on the "cool" kids.
- Fighting for an open web so that you and future generations can access the world without gatekeepers.
- Owning your content.
The urgent advice usually ends with โblogs are dead"If you always have to mention that "blogs are dead", perhaps they aren't actually dead. They never were dead. They're just not "cool" anymore. The people who made blogging cool and fun? They're mostly still blogging.
Publish. Consistently. With patience. Own your assets. Donโt let a middleman be your landlord. Yell at Google for blocking your emails and hope itโll work eventually. Continually push for RSS and an open web. With patience.Yes.
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by JamesYesterday when I shipped sending webmentions I ran into an error that didn't occur in development. Posting the webmention would work, but my response would timeout when trying to save content.
When updating a post you're supposed to send webmentions, update your content, then send webmentions again. As I'm trying to keep server requirements as simple as possible I'm doing all of the sending inline.
Looking at my logs what appeared to be happening was everything would just lock, then once my timeout occurred, I'd see my initial post request to Tanzawa come through, the timeout, and then Wordpress making a request to Tanzawa to retrieve it's mention.
This was happening because gunicorn only has 2 workers by default, which wasn't enough to handle processing a long request simultaneously with an incoming request. Increasing the workers from 2 to 4 solved the issue.
