<story><title>A Pattern Language</title><url>https://patternlanguage.cc/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>no_identd</author><text>To quote Dorian Taylor[no affiliation, albeit we do follow each other on Twitter &amp;amp; BlueSky] from &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;doriantaylor&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1585008553554677762&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;doriantaylor&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1585008553554677762&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Chances are if you&amp;#x27;re in software or digital design, you&amp;#x27;ve heard of the book A Pattern Language, well, you may not be aware that Christopher Alexander effectively renounced patterns in 1996 (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;98LdFA-_zfA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;98LdFA-_zfA&lt;/a&gt;). He said he had something better…&lt;p&gt;The problem is, that better something happens to be four books and 2500 pages, and weigh 12 pounds. And, it&amp;#x27;s about buildings, not software. So my service to you is interpreting the text for software, and cutting the reading down by an order of magnitude.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;That &amp;quot;something better&amp;quot; being Christopher Alexander&amp;#x27;s Opus Magnum, &amp;quot;The Nature of Order&amp;quot;. Dorian&amp;#x27;s working on this under the name &amp;quot;The Nature of Software&amp;quot; here:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;the.natureof.software&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;the.natureof.software&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And here:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;buttondown.email&amp;#x2F;natureofsoftware&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;buttondown.email&amp;#x2F;natureofsoftware&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>A Pattern Language</title><url>https://patternlanguage.cc/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gumby</author><text>This book (and the timeless way of building) were so important when we designed our house with our architect.&lt;p&gt;Two points that have stuck with me in the decades since:&lt;p&gt;1- find the nicest place in your property and &lt;i&gt;don’t&lt;/i&gt; build there&lt;p&gt;2- corridors are wasted space because you travel through them and don’t linger.  In the end we had only one corridor like space, and it had glass walls on all sides (one side was doors open all summer) so you felt like you were outside, plus it expanded so there was a place to sit.&lt;p&gt;The two page chapter structure works well for this.  The Society of Mind uses the same structure.</text></comment>