This person takes specific claims from the book and tries to dispute them, while ignoring that the book’s number one big-picture idea of “trauma is unprocessed emotions and memories physically stored in the body” remains the conceptual grounding for all modern non-cognitive trauma processing methods like EMDR (which are clearly effective, even as we do not fully understand e.g. the neurological mechanism by which the adaptive information processing network functions). He then points you to an older article of his that is behind a paywall.

I have my issues with van der Kolk’s work (I would personally not recommend The Body Keeps The Score to most people), but this is sloppy embarrassing clickbait.

I wouldn't say that EMDR is "clearly effective". The studies on it are all over the place so at best it's contentious.

I have criticisms of both tools like Claude Code and how applicable the 'pair programming' metaphor is here, but strong disagree that the person driving during pairing is the one who learns the most (or perhaps the implied "and the non-driver doesn't learn enough"). A good dynamic pairing session is equally valuable for both participants, even if there's a skill gap, and even if you're not alternating drivers as often as you should.

For folks who are interested in the UX design of chorded layouts, Artsey and Ardux (https://ardux.io) might be of interest. Artsey is a specific 2x4 one-handed chorded layout (of which Ardux is now a more robust implementation, with optional variations for slightly larger numbers of keys) that borrows a lot from colemak. I'm a big fan.

I particularly appreciate the simplicity of a 2x4 layout — OP's device rocks, but I worry about the ergonomics of thumb movement.

This project is or will be a worker-owned co-op, as evidenced by the strict requirements placed on anyone who registers a .coop domain name. I imagine at least equal ownership (if not risk and power) is a given in this specific instance, and profits will explicitly not flow upwards to shareholders who are not also workers.

This likely won't last long, because it is at odds with human nature.

Just basing things off of Android won't get you the "measured in days to weeks" battery life people appreciated about the Pebble, and building your own watch OS from scratch optimized for battery life but still supporting BLE connection to a phone sounds like a great way to spend several years.

For most people, using e-ink for general-purpose computing tasks is going to be so jarring and unpleasant that it's extremely difficult to recommend to anyone who doesn't have severe eyestrain issues and has tried and failed more typical accommodations. I adore e-ink for reading, and own several e-ink readers in various form factors, but the tradeoffs just don't make sense for a desktop computer for most people unless staring at your monitor for eight hours a day is causing you physical harm.

This looks great! I’d love to see some of the fantastic context in your lovely Twitter thread included on the website.

As someone who’s currently in industry rather than academia, I interpreted “virtual conference” as “a Twitch or YouTube stream, and likely some sort of chat space like a Discord”. That landing page does a great job of explaining the technical underpinnings of your tool, but doesn’t actually explain what sort of site/services the web server actually serves!

Even just including the GIF from the beginning of your Twitter thread would be super helpful.

Thanks for the comment! Updated the readme. During the conference we ran we did integrate chat and video tools (Rocket.chat, slido, slideslive). This is really just the glue to pull those parts together.

It's really not fair to describe the current situation as a "forced WFH experiment". We're trying to work and be even remotely productive during an unprecedented global pandemic, and also happen to be working from home.

I agree, Anki on iOS is significantly underpriced relative to the value it provides ;)

You can't copyright a game mechanic, but you can copyright content. This is why Words With Friends has a different board layout, tile distribution, and tile point values from Scrabble.

In that Set C&D, the infringing implementation is using art assets from the copyrighted Set game. Presumably, a version with different colors/shapes/etc (and a different name, so as to also avoid trademark infringement) would be totally fine.