Tootfinder

"Mike gave a legendary talk called “F*ck You, Pay Me,” with a title inspired by a quote from the late Ray Liotta in the 1990 movie “Goodfellas.”
What is interesting about this talk is that, despite being primarily directed to designers, its contents are immediately suitable for freelancing software engineers, a profession whose work is, at least since the return of Steve Jobs to Apple in 1997, inextricably linked to that of designers."

Mike Monteiro
Erika Hall and Mike Monteiro founded Mule Design, a design consultancy in San Francisco, around 20 years ago. Mike was (in)famously known around a decade ago on Twitter, where his profanity-laden rants about design, ethics (or lack thereof), unionization, and open condemnation of fascism, reached peaks of popularity and retweets.

A Domain Ontology for Modeling the Book of Purification in Islam
Hessa Alawwad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18222 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

A Domain Ontology for Modeling the Book of Purification in Islam
This paper aims to address a gap in major Islamic topics by developing an ontology for the Book of Purification in Islam. Many authoritative Islamic texts begin with the Book of Purification, as it is essential for performing prayer (the second pillar of Islam after Shahadah, the profession of faith) and other religious duties such as Umrah and Hajj. The ontology development strategy followed six key steps: (1) domain identification, (2) knowledge acquisition, (3) conceptualization, (4) class…