This is part one of a series where I document how I’m making this site more interoperable with IndieWeb tools and standards. I’ll update this notice to link to part 2 once I’ve written it

Interoperability is the heart of what makes the digital world work.

In my first job I worked with academic libraries to make research more openly available, sharing data about all forms of research outputs across the globe through the use of open data formats. These community-owned standards ensured that thousands of different systems globally could communicate, making each other aware of new findings in a field, and bringing the gobal academic community into closer contact.¹

In 1623 the German Wilhelm Schickard produced the first known designs for a mechanical calculator. Twenty years later Blaise Pascal produced a machine of an improved design, aiming to help with the large amount of tedious arithmetic required in his role as a tax collector.

The interest in mechanical calculation showed no sign of reducing in the subsequent centuries, as generations of people worldwide followed in Pascal and Wilhelm’s footsteps, subscribing to their view that offloading mental energy to a machine would be a relief.

This series is a place to collect interesting things I’ve seen, read, or heard, along with some brief thoughts (often incomplete and/or inconclusive) that they provoked.

Measuring Cyle Time with Dr. Cat Hicks - The Hanger DX Podcast, Ankit Jain

Cycle time is a measure lots of people use, but has no clear audience - developers, managers, CTOs all care about it. This makes it dangerous. Metrics have to be designed and used with psychological safety in mind. If people don’t trust the intention behind the metrics use, they’ll game it.