User:TCipriani (WMF)/User guide

Basics

• Preferred Name: Tyler
• Nickname: thcipriani (pretty much everywhere)
• Website: tylercipriani.com
• Location/Timezone: Longmont, CO / America/Denver (MST/MDT)
• Pronouns: he/him/his
• Motivations: https://easyretro.io/tools/moving-motivators/?order=6305728941

Availability

• Mon–Fri 9am–5pm Mountain time
  • Daylight savings time (Mar 10–Nov 02): 16:00–midnight UTC
  • Standard time (Nov 03–Mar 09): 15:00–23:00 UTC
• Available ±2hr outside regular availability with advance notice

How to talk to me

IRC ~= Slack > Meeting > Email > Text/Signal/Telegram > Using a phone like a phone > Ham radio

I'm a slow thinker, so I appreciate async communication.

If you present me with something new my first response will be my old thoughts. This works fine if it's something I've thought about before. If I haven't thought about it before, or it's a situation I haven't faced before, my thoughts and opinions are apt to change rapidly as I ponder.

I appreciate time to ponder.

Things I like

• Books
  • Fiction and nonfiction
  • I also read junk sci-fi space operas
  • I track what I've read on my blog
• Blogs (both reading and writing)
• Photography
• Astronomy (this relates to photography for me)
• Birds (this relates to photography for me)
• Computer science
• Note taking
• Git
• Hiking/Trail running/running
• My dog and my cat

Some pictures I've taken:

• 
  Mon, 08 Apr 2024 solar eclipse from Austin, TX
• 
  2021-07-30 ISS solar transit gif
• 
  Lunar Eclipse Composite (47034757982)
• 
  Sagrada Família Vertorama
• 
  Flatirons Sunrise

Things I struggle with

• Overscheduling
• Overthinking
• Leaving work
• Navigating change

Peccadillos

• It takes me time to process. I like to believe that I have a bias for action, but deciding a course of action takes me a long time in novel situations.
• I need to understand that everyone understands. I want to make sure that everyone understands everyone's motivations and mental models. This is time consuming.
• Often times I need to write, but I'm slow to write. Writing is a struggle for me, which is bad because it is also the one way I've found to clarify my thinking.

Hot takes

MediaWiki is the perfect format for an encyclopedia, but a terrible format for documentation.

Reasoning:

1. URLs are hard to memorize
2. The format encourages long-form writing vs digestible chunking of information
3. Navigation between a small subset of pages is ad-hoc
4. Extraneous navigation adds to cognitive load of readers without providing benefit
5. Hierarchies are useful for learning new concepts, but are supported ad-hoc on MediaWiki

You can make good documentation via MediaWiki, but the system works against it.