Curiosity Digest #4
Learning The Value of Inconvenient Design - A very interesting article about how making things easier has unintended consequences. What I found curious was the portion that describes an experiment were 2 groups of people were asked to assign a value to a storage box from Ikea. One group was just given the box, assembled, while the other had to put it together themselves. Turns out the DIYer gave it a higher value because there was a greater sense of ownership. I see a parallel in writing code. Watching videos and cutting and pasting code makes it easier, but you get more value out of following along with that video or retyping the code instead of just pasting it. Something to think about. WASM Blazor 0.9.0 Released - Being a .NET guy, I'm really curious about Blazor, a tool that allows you to write your client-side code using C#. Just wish I had more time to play with it... Exploring Blazor with Visual Studio 2019 - Okay, I just won't sleep this weekend. WASP - ...