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• Post #4160456

  “Leisure is also 1) freedom to enter, even to generate new symbolic worlds of entertainment, sports, games, diversions of all kinds. It is, furthermore, 2) freedom to transcend social structural limitations, freedom to play - with ideas, with fantasies, with words ... with paint... and with social relationships-in friendship, sensitivity training, psychodramas, and in other ways" ... Turner, V., 1974. Liminal to Liminoid, in Play, Flow, and Ritual: An Essay in Comparative Symbology.

• Post #4012265

  »Useful Work versus Useless Toil« by William Morris »This: one [kind of work] has hope in it, the other has not... hope of rest, hope of product, hope of pleasure in the work itself« https://www.marxists.org/archive/morris/works/1884/useful.htm #work #hope #philosophy #craft

• Post #3499393

  "AI contributions have the added pain of being demoralizing. Reviewing PRs is already tedious work, but it is rewarding because reviewers generally feel that their efforts are contributing to educating a new contributor (who may become a future maintainer/reviewer). If your feedback on PRs is ... not going towards mentoring a potential future maintainer, it becomes much harder to justify spending your free time on PR review." https://godotengine.org/article/contribution-policy-2026/...

• Post #3151405

  »Blender Studio is a team of artists and developers working within the Blender project, focused on creating cutting-edge content, sharing production knowledge, testing and contributing improvements to the latest in-development version of Blender. This process is called content-driven development, and has been a core part of the Blender projects since 2006.« https://studio.blender.org/projects/singularity/ #blender #programming #UX

• Post #3151404

  Rick Roderick "Self under Siege" lectures on (postmodern) philosophy in the 20th century: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wetwETy4u0&list=PLA34681B9BE88F5AA #philosophy #lectures #postmodernism

• Post #1975009

  Review of the "synthetic users" in UX research. https://measuringu.com/review-of-experiments-with-synthetic-users I think "synthetic users" is a terrible idea, but have a look at the research, which often leans towards that it is not good even aside of professional, ethical and political considerations. #AI #usability

• Post #1867886

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@opensourcedesign/116368106527325894 Also curious about replies here (but you can also get an account for the @opensourcedesign discourse!)

• Post #1867884

  »I've owned a copy of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations for years, but I read it the way Everett Hughes told me to read the sociological writings of Georg Simmel: not to get a full understanding of what the author might have meant, but rather as a way of generating ideas I could use in my own research and thinking.« (Howard Becker, »Tricks of the Trade«) #sociology #symbolicInteractionism #heuristic

• Post #1867883

  1,­– statt 2,– DM

• Post #1867882

  For designing desktop apps, the old Windows Interface Guidlines are still very useful for answering boring but important questions like: "How to apply changes made in a tabbed dialog" (it has a detailed section on that. #usability #windows

• Post #1867880

  »By betting on extreme ultraviolet lithography long before it worked, ASML became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chips.« https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-worlds-most-complex-machine/ #chips #manufacturing #infrastructure #politics

• Post #1282728

  pixels on html5 canvas, 2006

• Post #1165151

  "Experiencing Womanhood in A Year of Springs" https://share.transistor.fm/s/eb8369c9 #visualnovels #games #gender

• Post #1165150

  RE: https://flipboard.com/@futurism/futurism-1lupih3cz/-/a-hWRkyR9zQFuooBpWKGziAw%3Aa%3A1737388686-%2F0 Like "Tested with synthetic users"

• Post #1165149

  “Symbols are often defined as things ‘standing for’ other things. But they do not represent these ‘other things’ unambiguously: indeed, as argued above, if they did so they would be superfluous and redundant. … they ‘express’ other things in ways which allow their common form to be retained and shared among the members of a group, whilst not imposing upon these people the constraints of uniform meaning.” Cohen, "The Symbolic Construction of Community"

• Post #1165147

  Apple Human Interface Guidelines, 1992 #usability #UX

• Post #1165145

  "AI finally empowers normal people to be programmers" uhm, Spreadsheets? Hypercard?

• Post #1165144

  I really like »Tracer Bullet Development«: It is a simple method, focussed on practices rather than attitudes. Sadly, I can't find any good summary on the web. It is totally worth getting "The Pragmatic Programmer" and "Ship it" to read up on it, but it would still help to just send peers a link. #programming

• Post #1165142

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@PragmaticAndy/116403713241625546 How-To for Tracer Bullet Development:

• Post #1165140

  "Guidelines for the Development of Icon Metaphors" https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2013/04/10/semiotics-in-usability-guidelines-for-the-development-of-icon-metaphors/ #UX #Design #icons

• Post #1165139

  Keine Ahnung wie, aber es sollte ein Seminar werden. #medienwissenschaften #uni

• Post #1038482

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@opensourcedesign/116368106527325894 "What are patterns of rejection of design input/contributions?" - Aesthetics framed as being opposed to efficiency - Rejection of defaults - Keeping ideosyncracies - disagreements lead to demand for settings - no feedback/rejection that allows improvement

• Post #1038481

  My talk on "Best practices and (very) small projects" @FOSSBackstage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sod3VWQ9vEA

• Post #1031167

  Making users go through configuration steps because providing working defaults is "limiting user freedom" is a rather particular idea of freedom. #UX #opensource

• Post #1027740

  Trying to read the microGPT sourcecode. (https://karpathy.github.io/2026/02/12/microgpt/) I love the idea of the project, but imho its readability suffers from: - putting stuff on one line that would be better readable on multiple lines (probably to stay under 200 lines) - using 2 or 3 character variable names. i.e. wo being weightsOutput, x being any vector etc. (mathematical conventions? Copied from the original GPT2 code?) #microGPT #programming #style

• Post #1014253

  RE: https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116352522288234148 This post sparked a lot of discussion and some of the more thoughtful responses pointed out that social media is often used get engagement without entering a dialog and that mastodon does not foster that. I wonder if there is any data analysis of this, e.g. calculating a gini score of follower counts of a bluesky sample vs. a mastodon.social sample? #fediverse #statistics #UX

• Post #990363

  Usability issue discussions in open source projects "…were mostly focused on visual design and user interaction mechanisms". A possible explaination: "efficiency issues […] and aesthetic issues […] tend to be system characteristics that can be readily discovered and addressed by developers once a version of the system is implemented, while other usability aspects may require deeper, upfront analysis and UI/UX design." https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3637307...

• Post #831762

  "You can mock a man for expressing moral concern; you cannot express genuine moral concern yourself. To do so would be to embody the figure of the nag or the scold, who is ineluctably feminine." https://katemanne.substack.com/p/one-weird-trick-for-being-a-better Via @bojerlanski #feminism #ethics #gender

• Post #830941

  Seems English Wikipedia uses scaled capital letters for its birthday logo and German Wikipedia proper small caps. #typography #wikipedia25

• Post #424636

  »…the Luddites themselves “were totally fine with machines,” says Kevin Binfield […] They confined their attacks to manufacturers who used machines in what they called “a fraudulent and deceitful manner” to get around standard labor practices. “They just wanted machines that made high-quality goods,” says Binfield, “and they wanted these machines to be run by workers who had gone through an apprenticeship and got paid decent wages”« https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-reall...