Two universal facts about user documentation: Documentation is really important. We are really bad at writing it. We don’t have good theories on what makes for useful documentation. That is except for the four document model, or Diátaxis. I’m glad … Read more
What is it? The XY problem is asking about your attempted solution rather than your actual problem. This leads to enormous amounts of wasted time and energy, both on the part of people asking for help, and on the part … Read more
Stop Using Hamburger Menus Home | Sitemap ↓ 2023-05-04 I recently tooted about my hatred of website hamburger menus which was met with a surprising amount of support from other users. It seems like most people don’t actually like hamburger … Read more
In 1969, Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert published Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry. In it, they showed that a single-layer perceptron cannot compute the XOR function. The main argument relies on linear separability: Perceptrons are linear classifiers, which essentially … Read more
Whenever I talk to a band who are about to sign with a major label, I always end up thinking of them in a particular context. I imagine a trench, about four feet wide and five feet deep, maybe sixty … Read more
RFC 7807: Problem Details for HTTP APIs [RFC Home] [TEXT|PDF|HTML] [Tracker] [IPR] [Errata] [Info page] PROPOSED STANDARD Errata Exist Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) M. Nottingham Request for Comments: 7807 Akamai Category: Standards Track E. Wilde ISSN: 2070-1721 March 2016 … Read more
Welcome to the first article in a series on Demographics. Over the course of this series, we want to give you the most thought-provoking and actionable demographics charts and insights – straight to your inbox. We will start off by … Read more
A dimension is a physical quantity that can be measured, while a unit is a specific amount of a physical quantity. For example, time is a dimension, which can be measured in temporal units such as hours or seconds. Dimensional … Read more
Jump to navigation Jump to search A table with ten place settings. There are 3120 different ways in which five male-female couples can sit at this table such that men and women alternate and nobody sits next to their partner. … Read more
Wi-Fi networking provides us with 2 bands for the operation of wireless LAN networks: the 2.4Ghz band and the 5GHz band. The 2.4GHz band has a reputation of being something of a “sewer” of a band, due to its limited … Read more