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- Expanded journal entry for 2025-11-02 with notes on Git submodules and insights from Maggie Appleton's work. - Added new sections on good design and personal knowledge management, referencing Appleton's "Antilibrary." - Updated definitions in the Barefoot and Situated software pages based on discussions from Appleton and Clay Shirky. - Created a new person page for Clay Shirky, detailing his contributions to situated software.
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‎journals/2025_11_01.md‎

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- Thinking about [[Person/Maggie Appleton/Talk/24/05/Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers]]
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- ## On [[iOS/App/Development]] and Walled Gardens
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- Learned about distributing iOS apps to family devices - three main options:
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- Free sideloading (impractical - expires after 7 days)
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- TestFlight via Apple Developer Program ($99/year) - recommended, easy for family, but builds expire after 90 days
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- Ad Hoc distribution (complex setup, requires UDIDs, but lasts 1 year)
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- Also learned about making web pages act like apps on iOS using Progressive Web Apps (PWAs):
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- Requires `apple-mobile-web-app-capable` meta tag for full-screen mode
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- Web App Manifest for app metadata and icons
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- Service Worker for offline capability and caching
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- Supports push notifications and Web Share API on iOS

‎journals/2025_11_02.md‎

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- [[git/submodule]]
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- [[YouTube/@philomatics/25/05/Why everyone hates git submodules]]
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## Technical Techniques
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- [[git/submodule]]
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- took a few good notes in [[YouTube/@philomatics/25/05/Why everyone hates git submodules]]
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- [[YouTube/@philomatics]] runs git #Training classes for teams; he has quite a few videos on #git
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- ## On #[[Good Design]] and #PKM
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- Took another look at [[Person/Maggie Appleton/Garden]] and appreciated the little details (yet again)
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- came across [[Person/Maggie Appleton/Essay/25/ai-enlightenment]]; love the "Assumed Audience" callout at the top
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- She has an "Antilibrary" for books she hasn't read yet. Neat framing. I could use this!
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- {{embed [[Person/Maggie Appleton/Garden/Antilibrary]]}}
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- Some really cool books in here.
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- Updated [[Dev/Barefoot]] with comprehensive definition based on [[Person/Maggie Appleton]]'s talk on home-cooked software and barefoot developers
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- Updated [[Software/Situated]] with definition based on [[Person/Clay Shirky]]'s 2004 concept and [[Person/Maggie Appleton]]'s discussion in her home-cooked software talk
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- Created person page for [[Person/Clay Shirky]] - writer, technologist, and educator who first proposed the concept of situated software in 2004

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alias:: [[Good Design]]

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alias:: [[Barefoot Developer]]
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tags:: [[Term]]
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- # Barefoot Developer
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- A term coined by [[Person/Maggie Appleton]] to describe a new kind of developer who creates [[Dev/Home-Cooked Software]] for local communities rather than building software for the masses at industrial scale
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- ## Definition
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- Barefoot developers build software for themselves, their family and friends, their neighborhood, and their community
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- They solve local problems for local people
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- They don't need the complexity of professional industrial software - most local community software needs can be solved with simple CRUD apps, basic user authentication, and a few API calls
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- They don't need to scale to millions of people, juggle conflicting user needs, or ship features quickly for venture capitalists
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- ## Characteristics
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- Build software with care and love for people they know
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- Solve specific, local problems rather than generic ones
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- Create tools that are private and secure by default (no selling data)
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- Maintain control over their software and data
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- Don't have financial pressure to monetize or make profit
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- Work at small scale (dozens or hundreds of users, not thousands or millions)
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- ## Growth and Tools
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- Expected to grow exponentially more than professional developers
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- Need language model agents that act as central orchestrators to guide them through building software
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- Require tools accessible via plain English prompts rather than technical knowledge
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- Need "glue" between language model capabilities to build working applications
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- ## Related Concepts
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- [[Dev/Home-Cooked Software]]
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- [[Dev/Local-First]]
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- [[Software/Situated]]
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- [[Dev/End-User Programming]]
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- ## Source
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- [Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers](https://maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-software) - Talk by [[Person/Maggie Appleton]] at Local-first Conference, May 2024

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alias:: [[Progressive Web Apps]]

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- # Clay Shirky
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- ## Bio
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- American writer, consultant, and educator known for insights into social and economic effects of Internet technologies
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- Born 1964 in Columbia, Missouri
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- Bachelor of Arts in fine art from Yale University (1986)
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- Vice Provost for Educational Technologies at New York University (NYU)
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- Associate Professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, NYU
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- Associate Arts Professor at Tisch School of the Arts' Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYU
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- ## Notable Work
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- ### Situated Software (2004)
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- Proposed the concept of "situated software" - software "designed in and for a particular social situation or context"
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- Vision of applications for dozens of users rather than thousands or millions
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- Communities getting form-fit tools for their particular needs
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- ### Books
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- *Here Comes Everybody* (2008) - Examines how digital platforms enable collective action without traditional organizational structures
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- *Cognitive Surplus* (2010) - Discusses how technology enables collaborative creativity and generosity
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- ### Writings
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- Published in *The New York Times*, *The Wall Street Journal*, *Harvard Business Review*, and *Wired*
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- ## Consulting
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- Has consulted for Nokia, the BBC, and the Library of Congress
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- Expertise in decentralized technologies like peer-to-peer networks, web services, and wireless systems
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- ## External Links
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- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_Shirky)
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- ## Related Concepts
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- [[Software/Situated]] - Concept he first proposed in 2004
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- [[Dev/Home-Cooked Software]] - Related concept that built on his situated software ideas
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- > Designer, anthropologist
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- [[Person/Maggie Appleton/Garden]]
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- [[Person/Maggie Appleton/Garden]] is her [[Knowledge Garden]]
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- I first discovered her through [[Person/Maggie Appleton/Talk/24/05/Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers]]

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readwise-link:: https://read.readwise.io/new/read/01k91yrns2frqx1qh9t8nbtab0
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- # [A Treatise on AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment](https://maggieappleton.com/ai-enlightenment)
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‎pages/Person___Maggie Appleton___Garden___Antilibrary.md‎

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- [Antilibrary of Maggie Appleton](https://maggieappleton.com/antilibrary)
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- > "Books I like the idea of having read"

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