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recent bookmarks from amaahPost-colonial party pads! The architects who got Ghana back in the groove | Architecture | The Guardian2024-03-19T14:02:48+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/feb/26/post-colonial-party-pads-the-architects-who-got-ghana-back-in-the-groove
amaahArchitecture Design Ghana Africahttps://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:5b4bc2bb4102/‘Tropical Modernism’ at the Victoria and Albert Museum - The New York Times2024-03-19T13:57:03+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/arts/design/tropical-modernism-victoria-and-albert-museum.html?smid=tw-share
amaahArchitecture Design BestPractices Ghana adaptation Africahttps://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:ae7c0d3e4723/The Absurd Problem of New York City Trash - The New York Times2024-03-02T20:42:44+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/02/upshot/nyc-trash-rules.html
amaahgarbage environment city street strategy NewYork history design BestPracticeshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:a14abbf6290b/Scientists Find Optimal Balance of Data Storage and Time | Quanta Magazine2024-02-14T14:08:01+00:00
https://www.quantamagazine.org/scientists-find-optimal-balance-of-data-storage-and-time-20240208/
amaahSoftware programming Design algorithms BestPractices performance mathematicshttps://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:c5dabe264e01/Stuckeman architecture professor awarded United States Artists Fellowship | Penn State University2024-02-05T22:23:13+00:00
https://www.psu.edu/news/arts-and-architecture/story/stuckeman-architecture-professor-awarded-united-states-artists/?fbclid=IwAR3FS5YOyal8wf_-FfnA0cjOjXtV_2Hyq-Yx8uSH1phtW1hBoQj9zjS5V58
amaahfamily Architecture Design dkhttps://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:c4c491f90f84/Together Again - Texas Architect Magazine2024-01-26T00:53:24+00:00
https://magazine.texasarchitects.org/2024/01/05/together-again/
amaahAustin city design Texas Architecture urban street Development history culturehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:3271a21e6ef4/Can we have homes fit for Ghana? - Graphic Online2023-12-21T05:03:41+00:00
https://www.graphic.com.gh/features/elizabeth-ohene/ghana-news-can-we-have-homes-fit-for-ghana.html
amaahArchitecture ghana adaptation BestPractices culture observation perception mum designhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:bc2bc0ce7d1e/On Craft2023-11-18T17:50:09+00:00
https://www.drcathicks.com/post/on-craft
amaahcraft creativeprocess strategy BestPractices Design experiencehttps://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:6b110808ddad/GhanaMustGo | Chioma2023-11-15T02:12:30+00:00
https://www.chiioma.com/ghanamustgo
amaahGhanaMustGo ghana Nigeria fashion culture Africa designhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:239c6d05f54e/Full article: Crypt, Cornucopia and the Surface of Pattern2023-08-26T21:48:29+00:00
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09528822.2023.2229168?fbclid=IwAR0M6vV1ECcbiQgSJ5AH8HmZgAtbXuPRkc4WMm8ASTwBnIgcSyghiyhCQIY
amaahfabric textiles DutchWax history research design fashionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:ac8a31c93bb8/Graceful behavior at capacity - Made of Bugs2023-08-08T22:00:05+00:00
https://blog.nelhage.com/post/systems-at-capacity/
amaahTechnology performance scaling BestPractices strategy Software Optimization design Architecturehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:03e676822995/Train! - The Boston Globe2023-06-26T17:16:11+00:00
http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/05/08/train/
amaahhumanfactors friction design Architecture safety india technology strategyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:1b722a36d8f0/Efficiency trades off against resiliency - Made of Bugs2023-04-23T03:14:10+00:00
https://blog.nelhage.com/post/efficiency-vs-resiliency/
amaahresilience Optimization BestPractices design Architecture software systems engineering adaptability performancehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:9bf9cec30185/The age of average — Alex Murrell2023-04-06T03:17:52+00:00
https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average
amaahculture aesthetic modernity observation perception style fashion design Architecture standardshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:c9c6ff7ddae2/How Duolingo’s AI Learns What You Need to Learn - IEEE Spectrum2023-02-21T01:46:31+00:00
https://spectrum.ieee.org/duolingo#toggle-gdpr
amaahrecommendations design machinelearning algorithms strategy Technology language education learning Software datahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:4c21bb390f1e/The Next Century of Computing - by Charles Rosenbauer2023-01-10T03:36:56+00:00
https://www.bzogramming.com/p/the-next-century-of-computing
amaahprogramming computing Technology observation prediction future science software hardware design BestPracticeshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:34e235a31f9c/Kofi Ansah: Ghana mourns fashion guru - BBC News2022-12-21T01:34:19+00:00
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27413464
amaahobituary culture appreciation fashion mum ghana africa design arthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:360d59d4bd2f/Unearthing the truth | The Economist2022-10-30T21:16:49+00:00
https://www.economist.com/interactive/christmas-specials/2021/12/18/great-zimbabwe-archaeology
amaaharchaeology history Zimbabwe Africa Architecture designhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:c9efe813edc9/Why QUIC is not a replacement for TCP • The Register2022-10-07T10:38:59+00:00
https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/07/quic_tcp_replacement/
amaahTechnology Networks abstraction design Architecture modeling systems internet HTTP performancehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:7cbc74e7adee/The Tao of Programming2022-10-06T13:33:39+00:00
https://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html
amaahSoftware programming Design BestPractices Architecture experience Humour satire philosophy funhttps://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:d80a75dfb76d/Maintenance Is Sorely Needed In The Fight Against Global Warming2022-09-29T02:19:24+00:00
https://www.noemamag.com/the-disappearing-art-of-maintenance/
amaahtechnology culture maintenance infrastructure Design BestPractices craft hardware Development strategy transportation Economicshttps://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:9e26c578ebaf/Arm Is The New RISC/Unix, RISC-V Is The New Arm2022-09-23T03:14:52+00:00
https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/09/22/arm-is-the-new-risc-unix-risc-v-is-the-new-arm/?td=rt-3a
amaahTechnology hardware design LowEndTheory Economics Architecture BestPractices adoption historyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:e58f6726e6fe/Knowledge structures - by Gordon Brander - Subconscious2022-08-10T17:50:51+00:00
https://subconscious.substack.com/p/knowledge-structures
amaahdata Technology modeling Design Architecture Software BestPracticeshttps://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:f0b588898046/Jurassic Cloud | USENIX2022-07-22T23:59:06+00:00
https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/jurassic-cloud
amaahTechnology cloud Software design BestPractices Architecture patternshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:f1acf10b1a03/RFC 9205 - Building Protocols with HTTP2022-06-09T02:17:54+00:00
https://httpwg.org/specs/rfc9205.html
amaahrest http web Software Development Technology BestPractices standards design architecturehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:174a15cc889d/When the engineering fails2022-05-15T16:44:04+00:00
https://www.graphic.com.gh/features/opinion/when-the-engineering-fails.html
amaahengineering failure design BestPractices technology construction disaster Africa Ghana observation mumhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:12215a3a1ac3/Pritzker Prize Goes to Architect From West Africa - The New York Times2022-03-15T17:00:16+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/15/arts/design/pritzker-prize-francis-kere.html
amaahArchitecture Africa design BurkinaFasohttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:fb1f2256b736/When Architects Made Worlds2022-02-23T02:45:36+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/19/arts/design/project-of-independence-moma-review.html
amaahArchitecture design India Pakistan Nepal history independence culture urbanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:431375dfda53/Why skyscrapers are so short2022-01-27T05:56:29+00:00
https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/why-skyscrapers-are-so-short/
amaahconstruction design Architecture BestPractices history engineeringhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:56ed68746d61/J for Jim Crow - Believer Magazine2022-01-22T17:16:24+00:00
https://believermag.com/logger/written-in-jim-crow/
amaahdesign race stereotypes USA culture observation perception typeface aesthetic Africa black typography graphic history publishing literature identityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:baf5998972ff/Book Forum on Marina Peterson's Atmospheric Noise: The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles | Society for Cultural Anthropology2022-01-12T03:45:50+00:00
https://culanth.org/fieldsights/series/book-forum-on-marina-petersons-atmospheric-noise-the-indefinite-urbanism-of-los-angeles?fbclid=IwAR3BmCBvfOHZi4XRFruufuaLOvZlDfDNQvvBx3rNY-qiaFq6qWYbYRAgQEM
amaahculture observation perception review research pollution sound city urban Architecture Designhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:9df8d1c9b669/Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?2021-12-10T00:28:35+00:00
https://rootsofprogress.org/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-bicycle
amaahtechnology adoption transportation bicycle designhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:60c45a17d1af/The Dining Philosophers Problem2021-12-08T03:56:06+00:00
https://koranteng.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-dining-philosophers-problem.html
amaahhumour folktale software algorithms philosophy competition design BestPractices culture observation perception social technology Observersareworried poetry tolihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:83ccb51b8dcb/The Laws of Identity2021-12-07T01:37:45+00:00
https://www.identityblog.com/stories/2005/05/13/TheLawsOfIdentity.pdf
amaahidentity Technology BestPractices Software design systems distributed Architecturehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:1a050f0071e9/Yesterday Once More2021-11-23T01:09:45+00:00
https://reallifemag.com/yesterday-once-more/
amaahTechnology recommendations systems design algorithms BestPractices humanfactors software machinelearninghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:2366fa2ebc31/Our world is a black box, predictable but not understandable | Aeon Essays2021-11-16T14:55:59+00:00
https://aeon.co/essays/our-world-is-a-black-box-predictable-but-not-understandable
amaahTechnology learning machinelearning comprehension BestPractices algorithms computing Software designhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:168d425be9bd/Pollinator Pathmaker2021-11-13T02:54:29+00:00
https://pollinator.art/pathmaker
amaahnature garden biology design visualization BestPracticeshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:61d5f9f00f28/Why Tokyo Works | Culture | Metropolis Japan2021-11-07T22:16:18+00:00
https://metropolisjapan.com/why-tokyo-works/
amaahArchitecture tokyo city design BestPractices urban culture transportationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:031cc8d91366/Hexing the technical interview2021-10-09T02:07:56+00:00
https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview
amaahinterview programming Software language whimsy design Technology Humourhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:49d4631b144b/Reversing the technical interview2021-10-09T02:07:37+00:00
https://aphyr.com/posts/340-reversing-the-technical-interview
amaahinterview programming Software language whimsy design Technology Humourhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:c0b9242b4c23/Bantu Wax2021-10-02T00:34:30+00:00
https://timbuktuchronicles.blogspot.com/2014/12/bantu-wax.html
amaahGhanaMustGo fashion design textiles Africa culture IvoryCoast Senegalhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:eff8c6cafd87/State aesthetics and state meanings: Political architecture in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire | African Affairs | Oxford Academic2021-08-02T20:52:59+00:00
https://academic.oup.com/afraf/article/120/480/333/6323300
amaahArchitecture ghana design history Africa IvoryCoast Coted'Ivoirehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:f62b394ebcf6/Least Resistance: How Desire Paths Can Lead to Better Design - 99% Invisible2021-06-23T18:03:54+00:00
https://99percentinvisible.org/article/least-resistance-desire-paths-can-lead-better-design/
amaahDesign Architecture BestPractices adoption transportation humanfactorshttps://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:74e24fc14473/Rethinking Search: Making Experts out of Dilettante2021-06-19T23:24:28+00:00
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.02274.pdf
amaahsearch Software design algorithms research information visualization Technology web humanfactors recommendationshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:7de18b28fc7a/Urban spatial order: street network orientation, configuration, and entropy | Applied Network Science | Full Text2021-06-06T16:23:23+00:00
https://appliednetsci.springeropen.com/articles/10.1007/s41109-019-0189-1
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https://www.siteenvirodesign.com/content/high-rise-homes
amaahDesign Architecturehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:7170771bde43/The Filing Cabinet2021-05-24T19:56:05+00:00
https://placesjournal.org/article/the-filing-cabinet-and-20th-century-information-infrastructure/?cn-reloaded=1&cn-reloaded=1
amaahTechnology organization design appreciation adoption informationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:70f05a507954/The Design History of Ghana’s Compound Houses - Bloomberg2021-05-11T14:18:09+00:00
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-05-06/the-design-history-of-ghana-s-compound-houses
amaahDesign Architecture city Accra History Ghana Housing social communities SocialLivinghttps://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:f73b920166bf/Internal Combustion Engine – Bartosz Ciechanowski2021-05-02T00:22:44+00:00
https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/
amaahvisualization engineering design cars physics Technology BestPractices hardwarehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:68904ffe463e/We were promised Strong AI, but instead we got metadata analysis2021-05-01T01:22:21+00:00
https://calpaterson.com/metadata.html
amaahmetadata data machinelearning Software algorithms recommendations Design BestPractices humanfactors adoption searchhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:0b72232ba979/Moving beyond “algorithmic bias is a data problem”: Patterns2021-04-13T03:17:45+00:00
https://www.cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S2666-3899(21)00061-1
amaahalgorithms design BestPractices Technology Software machinelearning neutrality data sensitivityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:da0edf361be6/Koranteng's Toli: Empire State of Mind2021-04-04T01:37:36+00:00
https://koranteng.blogspot.com/2021/04/empire-state-of-mind.html
amaahculture technology algorithms software race sensitivity toli life BestPractices design datahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:2ee6d2843242/Data Mesh: The Answer to the Data Warehouse Hypocrisy2021-03-25T20:58:05+00:00
https://blog.starburstdata.com/data-mesh-the-answer-to-the-data-warehouse-hypocrisy
amaahTechnology data database Design BestPractices organization scale scalability Software humanfactors performance coordinationhttps://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:587b2983e4a6/10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design2021-03-25T04:02:13+00:00
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/
amaahusability design heuristics Technology Software BestPractices UIhttps://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:f2c56b47588f/jwz: They Live and the secret history of the Mozilla logo2021-03-11T00:14:10+00:00
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/10/they-live-and-the-secret-history-of-the-mozilla-logo/
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http://www.ercot.com/content/wcm/key_documents_lists/225373/Urgent_Board_of_Directors_Meeting_2-24-2021.pdf
amaahInfrastructure disaster electricity texas power Technology BestPractices design Architecture failure resilience planninghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:524672d2118a/American Idle2021-02-24T00:25:42+00:00
https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2021/2/15/american-idle
amaahNetworks Software BestPractices design Architecture communities social adoption web videohttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:5d1752ffd22b/Deep in the heart of Texas’ collapsing power grid | Ars Technica2021-02-19T23:13:01+00:00
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/even-power-disasters-are-bigger-in-texas-heres-why/
amaahelectricity power resilience Design BestPractices weather disasterhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:65b9c90bc008/Dolat Abad Windcatcher – Yazd, Iran - Atlas Obscura2021-02-15T05:23:55+00:00
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/dolat-abad-windcatcher
amaahdesign Architecture environmenthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:570ca1b7c02e/How we made Typerighter, the Guardian’s style guide checker | Info | The Guardian2021-01-28T05:16:01+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/info/2021/jan/26/how-we-made-typerighter-the-guardians-style-guide-checker
amaahSoftware Technology standards writing design BestPracticeshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:fba51fa8bb3f/Impossible nostalgia: green affect in the landscapes of the Swedish Million Programme2021-01-21T03:11:41+00:00
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01426397.2020.1858248?fbclid=IwAR389w34lXmIePZRW0_v-YVKU7tXWFRq62kvdXfuqa6vEbUVVtYIlvmKg0w&
amaahArchitecture Sweden Culture appreciation Modernity observation research communities nostalgia perception environment city Designhttps://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:1924716a9002/Solving the Rubik’s Cube and other hard-to-recognise problems (Interconnected)2021-01-04T23:57:00+00:00
http://interconnected.org/home/2021/01/04/rubiks_cube
amaahfuture mathematics algorithms Software programming Design Technology Architecture scaling scalability patternshttps://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:b7db263efaa8/How the Escalator Forever Changed Our Sense of Space | Innovation | Smithsonian Magazine2021-01-03T18:46:03+00:00
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-escalator-forever-changed-our-sense-space-180972468/
amaahTechnology design Economics adoption Architecturehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:3010afa5203f/Systems design explains the world: volume 12020-12-28T00:49:28+00:00
https://apenwarr.ca/log/20201227
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https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9116068
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https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2020/12/21/google-bundling-and-kill-zones
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https://coda.io/@shishir/four-myths-of-bundling
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https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-04/bh-us-04-simmonds.pdf
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https://voxeu.org/article/political-economy-africa-s-interior-coast-roads
amaahroads transportation economics development Infrastructure integration Africa history research design BestPractices investment colonialism Politics policyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:amaah/b:847d21177e45/Koranteng's Toli: Mixed Metaphors2020-12-01T14:25:37+00:00
https://koranteng.blogspot.com/2020/09/mixed-metaphors.html
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