Recent changes

I've been thinking about what it takes to learn a system, prompted by some discussions about the ease (or lack of) of being a proficient developer with MediaWiki as deployed in Wikimedia sites. My thinking is that the quality fixed assets of a project (its documentation, tutorials, other posts) are less important than the learnability of such a system–how one can reverse engineer, debug, grep, study examples, and otherwise hack one's way to the right answer.

I think we have the right tools in place for that, in the Wikimedia context, and hope to write more about it soon.

Otherwise:

• Reading: still working my way through The Mirror and the Light and in German, Adrenaline (autobiography). Did he really wait 5 years to take revenge for a foul? Oh dear
• Music: picked up the lyra again