Tantek’s Thoughts 2016-2

https://scontent-sea1-1.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/e35/13092412_992200517501486_1369350198_n.jpg https://www.instagram.com/p/BEoa2nCA9TUWhhwrdStOen229s5NClNypdOiUo0/ I seriously woke-up feeling like crap. The nice thing about morning routines is being able to ignore feelings and just go through the motions on auto-pilot. You’re not quite awake, nor really want to be, but each step reminds you of the next, and in about 10-15 minutes you can be ready to get outside to workout. At that point you’re more awake from all the moving around, and with fewer things in your way (excuses), you can really check-in with yourself to see if you’re actually not well, or just having a tough morning. This morning I wasn’t sure which it was. Didn’t sleep well, and I distinctly remember thinking, I’m glad no one else has to wake up to me being like this (perhaps the contrary is a good indicator, when you wake up like that, and know you’re not burdening the other person, because you yourself would feel supportive, not burdened at all, if it was reversed). I’d already “verballed” to several @Nov_Project_SF friends that I would be at Monday’s workout, and that was enough to get me out the door, telling myself that if I still felt bad when I got to Fort Mason I could just stretch or do my own workout. Plus today was a shirt tagging day. I arrived at the Great Meadow a little late, catching the tail end of the workout description. We were told to partner up and I just paused a bit while people paired up around me. I saw Mitch, one of the most positive and encouraging people in NP (not to mention fast, and a great hugger), holding his hand up so I walked up to him, tapped him on the shoulder, and asked him what the workout was. We were doing the Huffman (the second workout I ever did @Nov_Project_SF, ttk.me/b/4Yy2#huffman) and the running part consisted mostly of stairs, down to the Fort Mason parking lot, back up to the bike path, then up a flight of stairs from the Great Meadow to a wooded clearing, then back to the bike path. Ironically I find stairs to be easier, because it seems like nearly nobody likes stairs, so I can keep up with people if I just push myself a bit. I took stairs first, the first set of which were downhill, easy, leaving Mitch to start with box jumps. By the time I finished the first running/stairs loop, I had forgotten what it was or why I felt bad. It was a beautiful day outside, the temperature was perfect, and the morning sun was giving everything (and everyone) a warm orange glow. Mitch & I knocked out our 10 hoistees, yelling out “Hoistee!” in unison each time. Box jumps are not my favorite, so I modified and mechanically did alternating step-ups until we hoisteed and swapped-off again. Next iteration was dips, which are one of my favorites, except it’s pretty tough doing them continuously for 2-3 minutes so I ended up doing 25, then four sets of 10. Next leg lifts, which I’ve practiced ever since the first @Nov_Project_NYC destination deck to Union Square back in July of 2014 had us do 100 total which gave me sore abs for days. Knocked out 60 while Mitch ran his loop. The stairs were getting harder and I was succumbing to using my hands to push down on my thighs while climbing (not sure why that seems to help but it does). Finally sergeant lunges, which were wobbly at best until our leaders called time. I realized that after a 25 minute workout I felt totally fine. Whatever I had felt earlier was gone, shaken out by all those reps & steps. The sun was shining brightly, and everyone was smiling. Thanks @Nov_Project. Photo tags: #NPSF #grassrootsgear #wakeupthesun #novemberproject #fromwhereirun #heysweatdaily #nofilter

Based on #Indieweb #Micropub experience, #CRUD is an anachronism. Need undelete+incrementalism: #CDURU See: Wikipedia’s CRUD article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRUD says: "Without at least these four operations, the software cannot be considered complete." This has been empirically disproven, at least by any practical meaning of "complete" (AKA useful & used) for several subsets: 1. Create only 2. Create + Delete 3. Create + Delete + Undelete 4. Create Delete Undelete Read Update (CDURU) Create only: Numerous Micropub http://micropub.net/draft/ implementations have demonstrated that create-only is both useful and just fine on its own without ever implementing anything else. SMS, specifically the act of texting, is another popular create-only interface that has wide adoption. Once you have sent a text, there is no deleting it (a local delete has no effect on the copy the recipient has received). Create + Delete only: Twitter proved that create + delete as the only operations you can do with tweets was sufficiently useful (complete) for mass adoption. No need for updates for something to be “complete” from the perspective of useful, actually used, used frequently, and repeatedly over time. People keep asking for editing tweets, but keep using Twitter anyway — a good example of the far greater importance of observing and paying more attention to what users do, than what they say (want/demand/ask/etc.). Add Undelete: The next logical operation is not read nor update, but rather, undelete. This is true both from a user perspective (oops, I didn’t mean to delete that! Undelete!), and from an implementation perspective (implementing undelete and ensuring that all user-state / content has been restored is a good way of double-checking your delete implementation as well). Undelete and the broader notion of Undo have been in user interfaces since the 1980s (at least, widespread multiple undo since 1990s). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undelete https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undo Various social media sites (silos, e.g. Facebook) implemented undelete (like of status posts, perhaps as Undo Delete, or Restore) long before they implemented "Edit" (update). Being able to even just undelete something that you deleted was useful all on its own, without any comprehensive editing/updating capabilities. Reads and Updates Read as an operation refers specifically to reading previously created content from a service, which, while potentially useful for an API, is often either unnecessary or implicit in being able to view, load, parse someones recent posts, or stream of updates (e.g. the h-entry and possibly h-feed @microformats markup on an indieweb site home page). http://microformats.org/wiki/h-entry http://microformats.org/wiki/h-feed Read becomes necessary when you want to implement Update, in particular if you only want to implement updating of specific aspects of a post. For example if your client was implementing tagging a post, your client must implement first reading the existing tags on the post to show them to the user (so they don't errantly waste time re-adding existing tags). Once your implementation can read existing tags, then it can implementing updating those tags by either just adding to them, or removing some (if the user deleted a few), or replacing the full set of tags (if the user added and deleted some). It’s worth distinguishing these add/remove/replace use-cases even for simple strings for the same reasons it is useful to distinguish create/delete/update of entire posts, e.g. you might grant different add vs remove/replace permissions to different clients. Thus if you’re implementing a client-server interaction (e.g. Micropub), it makes sense, is possible, and incrementally useful to you and your users to implement in this order: Create Delete Undelete Read Update CDURU - pronounced kuh-doo-roo. (Feedback from Micropub implementers welcome to confirm/dispute/improve any of the above!)

Embrace Joy In The Present

Friday night someone asked me if I had any particular insights to share from my previous solar revolution.

I told them that the one thought that kept coming to mind is: don’t postpone joy. I have also found that positive (re)framing often requires deliberate questioning, reflection, rethinking, even when regularly practiced.

This past year was full of inspiring perspective-shifting heights and yet not without a few lows, crushing or lingering.

From both I have learned that gratitude is a conscious choice, practicing it brings joy, calmly and sometimes surprisingly, no matter the day, especially when paired with practicing daily self-care: from ritual essentials, to growth through iteration, to the hardwork of unburdening yourself of past timedebts, to make more room for that joy to flow.

Fortune favors the prepared and the bold, yet joy is more visible to the grateful. Seeing is just an open door to the present; listen, feel, speak, do, and make to be present. Embrace that joy in the present, letting it illuminate the possible, rather than hesitating from fear of the uncertain or the unknown.

Looking forward to more adventures, joy, and growth with all of you on this next solar revolution.

Thank you for being.