Metamuse 34 // Bring your own client with Geoffrey Litt
Jul 8, 2021
58:33
In today’s world, apps and their data are tightly coupled—but what if each person could pick and choose their own tool for use in a collaborative project? Geoffrey Litt is a researcher working on this problem at MIT. He joins Mark and Adam to talk about email as the original BYOC case study; how shared protocols enable niche software; whether it’s possible to design software for someone other than yourself; and how to accidentally become an expert.
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Show notes
- Geoffrey Litt / @geoffreylitt
- “teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea”
- Project Cambria
- MIT Software Design Group
- Ink & Switch
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Doug Engelbart
- Superorganizers profile of Geoffrey including Muse screenshots
- Bring Your Own Client
- email as one of the first internet protocols
- Pine, Mutt
- Superhuman, Front, Tempo
- not many clients support video in HTML emails
- tractor attachments and the three-point hitch
- HTML meta tags for Google and Twitter
- progress enhancement
- reverse engineering
- ad blockers
- end-user programming
- aspiring programmer progressing from Livejournal to HTML coding
- PHP
- Hubspot, Mailchimp
- “toolmaker humility” from Balint @ Craft
- Solid
- accessibility in collaborative writing
- VS Code won the text editor wars
- “ed is the standard text editor”
- episode on video games
- Flash, Java servlet
- Changing Minds
- Bonnie Nardi
- ethnographic study of distributed problem-solving in spreadsheets
- Wildcard