Knowledge Was Collected 7

The Opposite of Documentation is Superstition

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/the-opposite-of-documentation-is-superstition/

This is a fun story about how the lack of documentation leads people to try out different options to make the tool work, even though it has nothing to do with how the tool is actually working.

The story features an experiment done on some birds to “trigger the feeder”, where the birds where fed at random but developed random superstitions they thought were the triggers for food (they weren’t) wiki

An Open Source App We Can All Learn From

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIoYUQhKJUo

A video by Theo about bluesky, how they leverage code sharing/reuse in their mobile and web applications. An interesting approach to React Native and React Native for Web.

I wan’t a fan of cross-platform mobile development, but it is definitely growing, and even becoming the first-party, with the web support just being a side-effect. Did not expect that happen.