Some things that bring me joy
Toward the top of my notepad, I wrote I miss personal writing. I realised this in a conversation earlier this […]
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Ideas take time to garden
Sometimes, I have an idea for something to create – an essay, a blog series, a program, a tool –
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Adding direct answers to my website search engine
My website search engine now supports direct answers. Any query starting with what is or what are is processed with
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Share a compliment with a creator you appreciate
One of the joys of making something is that you never know the extent to which it can inspire someone.
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Planting a link garden | James’ Coffee Blog
I have so many links I can share, I said to a friend with excitement. I often feel this way.
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Improving search relevance with word proximity
My website search engine uses text search to identify documents relevant to a given term. Up until recently, the search
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How to find word collocations in a document
My blog search engine used to treat every word independently in evaluating a query. For example, results for “homebrew website
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Let’s replace “user experience” with human experience
I recently asked two friends to give feedback on part of the experience on my website. I invited both to
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Learning from human experience interviews
In Let’s replace “user experience” with human experience, I posit that we should use “human experience” instead of “user experience,”
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Hopes
I love being the person who can make sound from a piano where there was silence. I hope that I