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I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong @ tonsky.me

#code #colour #perception #reading #syntax | Applying human ergonomics and design principles to syntax highlighting

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ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

#blogs #reading | A collection of 2,301 blogs about every topic

8 months ago | View Shared by victor

OCR4all | Setup guide, user guide, developer documentation and more.

#ocr #optical_character_recognition #reading #tool | Guides, documentation and more

9 months ago | View Shared by victor

Cognitive load

#architecture #code #cognition #complexity #reading | When reading code, you put things like values of variables, control flow logic and call sequences into your head. The average person can hold roughly four such chunks in working memory. Once the cognitive load reaches this threshold, it becomes much harder to understand things. Let's say we have been asked to make some fixes to a completely unfamiliar project. We were told that a really smart developer had contributed to it. Lots of cool architectures, fancy libraries and trendy technologies were used. In other words, the author had created a high cognitive load for us.

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Life Is Too Short to RTFM: How Users Relate to Documentation and Excess Features in Consumer Products | Interacting with Computers | Oxford Academic

#behaviour #documentation #ignobel_prize #manual #reading #ux #ux_writing

1 year ago | View Shared by victor

The Joy of Reading Books You Don't Entirely Understand

#books #learning #literature #psychology #reading | It really should be acceptable and normal to say “I don’t entirely understand what I just read, but I loved it.”

1 year ago | View Shared by victor

Omnivore

#app #bookmarks #opensource #reading #tools

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BOOX Palma

#device #ebook #eink #reading

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The Un-Brie-Lievable History of Tyromancy

#food #fortune #future #reading | This fortune-telling practice uses cheese to predict everything from your future spouse to your next career move.

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Handbook for Writers - Table of Contents

#argumentation #drafts #handbook #reading #resource #thinking #tool #writing

3 years ago | View Shared by victor

optimal-codestyle

#code_style #nerdery #programming #reading #via:popular

4 years ago | View Shared by victor

How to read more books | Psyche Guides

#book #habit #reading

4 years ago | View Shared by victor

How I read books: a guide on how to learn | by Denys Zhadanov | Dec, 2020 | denzhadanov

#books #learning #productivity #reading | <blockquote>Disclaimer: I’ve spend hours researching this topic and simplifying things for you.It gets a bit nerdy, but if you apply these techniques -> your life can change. Instead of reading 100 books, it’s…</blockquote>

4 years ago | View Shared by victor

PDF: Still Unfit for Human Consumption, 20 Years Later

#browser #file #pdf #reading #usability #use #ux | <blockquote>Research spanning 20 years proves PDFs are problematic for online reading. Yet they’re still prevalent and users continue to get lost in them. They’re unpleasant to read and navigate and remain unfit for digital-content display.</blockquote>

5 years ago | View Shared by victor

Why books don’t work | Andy Matuschak

#books #cognition #education #learning #memory #reading

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How People Read Online: New and Old Findings

#content_strategy #information_design #legibility #reading #scanning

5 years ago | View Shared by victor