Post #1850132
2026-04-26 23:19 UTC
RE: https://cupoftea.social/@moof/116470265434408001
Ahh… remember the days of “Big Visible Charts” and “ambient awareness” (or whatever Alistair Cockburn called it)?
https://ronjeffries.com/xprog/articles/bigvisiblecharts/
So many clever tricks-of-the-trade from that era seem to have been forgotten, perhaps because they didn’t fit in with top-down managerial regulation and resisted being metric-ized. And maybe assumed colocation?
Example: build-status lava lamps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Build_light_indicator
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@jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io 2026-04-27 00:08
@marick@mstdn.social "information radiators" is the term I recall for Big Visible Charts etc. in shared spaces, easy to point at to answer some questions.
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@noplasticshower@infosec.exchange 2026-04-27 01:30
@marick@mstdn.social read this https://eagleman.com/books/livewired/ And look into the work from los alamos in 1994