Talking at UX Brighton 2024

I'm incredibly excited to be speaking at UX Brighton 2024 in November! This year's conference theme, "What do UX designers, researchers, and managers need to know about AI?", perfectly aligns with my interests. I'm developing a talk about how the new generation of ML will reshape user interface patterns. UX…
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I'm incredibly excited to be speaking at @UXbri in November. This year's conference theme on AI perfectly aligns with my interests. https://uxbri.org/


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Just read "How we talk" it methodically unveils the hidden and unconscious scaffolding we use as we talk. Review and reading notes: https://bit.ly/4aLWPnE


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How We Talk by N. J. Enfield

This book offers a thought-provoking introduction to the mechanics of conversation. It creates a forceful case for the importance of timing, repair, and the procedural utterances we use to construct successful conversations. Enfield methodically unveils the hidden and unconscious scaffolding we use as we talk to each other. Who knew…
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Its been a long time unloved, but updated https://github.com/glennjones/microformat-node as I start to use my blog again

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Really enjoyed reading “Conversation With Things” – from my ever growing conversation design reading list. Review and read notes: https://bit.ly/48PkO3G


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Conversation With Things by Diana Deibel and Rebecca Evanhoe

Conversation With Things is a fascinating journey into the world of conversational design. Authors Diana Deibel and Rebecca Evanhoe have gone to great lengths to produce the introduction they wish they'd had when they started. Two chapters, 'Talking like a Person' and 'Complex Conversations', truly demonstrate an understanding of the…
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  • design
  • conversational-design

@openai just push me onto pre-purchase credits. Time to start looking into moving fine-tuning over to open models. Seems short sighted when more options are opening up

On my way to @edinburghjs for a talk on Netlify by @philhawksworth Feels new and a blast from the past at the same time. https://www.edinburghjs.org/meetups/2024-02-20

Just finished reading "Conversational Design" by Erika Hall, researching existing works on designing linguistic user interfaces, i.e., AI chat interfaces. Reading Notes https://bit.ly/42HZXOw


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Conversational Design by Erika Hall

Conversational Design could have been a straightforward view on the emergence of voice interfaces such as Alexa or the UI of customer service bots that live in the bottom right-hand corner of many sites. Instead, Erika Hall explores the rich possibilities of conversational language in UX from a more holistic…
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  • design
  • conversational-design

Loving the naive and surreal AI images created entirely within the browser. Utilizing SD-Turbo, WebGPU, Wasm, and ONNX


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Off to Tech Meetup Edinburgh tonight - "Hacking ChatGPT" by Dan Llewellyn - https://lu.ma/8wx857zf

New blog post on "Hosting multiple Node.js sites on Scaleway with Nginx and Lets Encrypt" http://bit.ly/2oDDldb

Hosting multiple node sites on Scaleway with Nginx and Lets Encrypt

Two years ago I wrote a blog post about hosting Node.js servers on Scaleway. I have now started using Nginx to allow me to host multiple sites on one €2.99 a month server. This tutorial will help you build a multi site hosting environment for Node.js servers. We are going…
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  • nginx
  • letsencrypt
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Its that time again, box up my few old web sites and move on to another hosting platform - https://my.xervo.io/shutdown

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Reading a legal paper - directors: "each of whom shall be a natural person" people really are scared the robots are taking over

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Putting devices on VPN passing through Iceland. Protecting my privacy from my own government. Sad day that I feel have to do it. UK Subject

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One reason for not showing other code is we don't have the visual stylistic cues like 'sketch' or 'wireframe' that de-marks experimentation

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Thought kids party metaphor in Dave Snowden #uxbri talk on the use ordered and complex sytems in management http://bit.ly/2fdAtAf was great