peter

peter, 7 months ago to design German

This is a beautiful interaction design masterclass on mobile text editing by @scottjenson.

https://jenson.org/text/

1. Follow your hunch that, even though no one complains too loudly, something could be improved
2. Observe people to validate your hunch
3. Describe the problem in detail to understand its nature
4. Explore alternative solutions through experimentation and simplification using your detailed problem statement as guidance
5. Create a prototype, test it, iterate, and share

#design

peter, 5 months ago to random

Re: measurements shape behaviour.

Kid‘s class have to read books in school now and track pages per day. My kid started with a text-only book set in small letters. A classmate read many more pages in the same time, in a book with lots of images and set in large letters.

Obviously my kid now switched to those books as well – she liked the other stories, but it‘s really disheartening to fall behind in page count for her.

Why not just check in with each kid to see how they‘re doing?

peter, 5 months ago to random

Car bumped into me on my bike today, luckily only my fender was damaged.

Iwas wearing hi-vis vest and bright lights. Nothing more I could do except not bike or get proper infrastructure 🤷‍♂️

peter, 5 months ago to random

Tried out Kagi just now and … oh no 😢

peter, 4 months ago to tv

Finished #ScavengersReign – a strange and magical journey of subtle horrors and marvellous discoveries!

#tv

peter, 10 months ago to random

What I love about this video is how all the composers’ styles and musical concepts are named and understood. It's also a great example of the musical art behind it all: each variation brings out the artistic thinking of the respective composers, providing insight into how deliberately they crafted their styles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRfsibwR5x4

peter, 6 months ago to music

50 years ago today one of my all time favourite albums was released: Head Hunters.

I listened to this for hours as a child when I discovered it in my dad’s LP collection. And when I recently put it on for the 9yo to hear, we both danced as if there was no tomorrow.

Here’s to a visionary band and a time when it was a-ok when a song lasted for 10 or 15 minutes even. 🧡

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_Hunters

#music #50YearsAgo

peter, 11 months ago to random

So we played a round of “Alice is Missing” yesterday AND OMG IS IT COOL 😍😍😍 Find a couple of friends and play it – it even works remotely!

https://www.huntersentertainment.com/alice-is-missing

peter, 3 months ago to random

The kid saw 🖕in my recent emojis and had questions. Always remember: metadata is telling stories!

peter, 3 months ago to random

Interesting: Reading QR codes without a computer!

https://qr.blinry.org/

#37C3

peter, 2 months ago to music

When I looked at my Hancock collection the other day it occurred to me how these albums are not just music history, but also spectacles frames history!

1962, 1978, 1996, 2007

#music #fashion

Album cover of «Herbie Hancock, Sunlight». Photo of a man with huge, thick ’70s glasses.
Album cover of «Herbie Hancock, The New Standard». Photo of a man looking downwards with all-glass-no-frame spectacles.
Album cover of «Herbie Hancock, River». Photo of a man looking down with shaded glasses with a slick 2000s shape.

peter, 11 months ago to random

To succeed at capitalism, you have to sabotage. Great thread!

https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/110559922043793089

peter, 5 months ago to random

Preparations in progress 😋

peter, 4 months ago to random

Spent a wonderful day in the snow today ❤️ Going to bed early, so exhausted from skiing 😅

peter, 3 months ago to LEGO

Are there any good #LEGO Technics sets that are not cars? The kid is not amused at this car obsession and neither am I …

peter, 5 months ago to random

Switzerland is ridiculous: our Council of States suggests to prosecute individual journalists who publish data that has been illegally collected, e.g. through a whistleblower or the darknet.

This would mean that the only data they could report on would be data that has been published by an organisation. As if anyone would publish their own wrongdoings 🤦

peter, 5 months ago to devops

✨ Open position ✨ We need to scale our online platform for teaching computer science to more schools and are looking for someone in #SystemsEngineering / #DevOps who can help us with this.

It’s a super family-friendly environment and a lovely team. Come join us? I’m happy to answer questions!

https://jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_ethz_JV5eRhrSjEaR4VsM6O

(It says it’s temporary, but so far we managed to extend every position to unlimited, because it’s really needed.)

#Job #EduTech

peter, 5 months ago to random

Zürich wants to remove bike lanes and make roads more narrow, thereby slowing down cars so they can‘t overtake cyclists anymore.

How utterly stupid!

Just last week a car hit me from behind when I was standing at an intersection.

Days before a car overtook me so closely that my clothes were pulled towards it. I then rode in the middle of the road to prevent further close encounters, only to be overtaken by the next car who almost ran headways into an oncoming car. Etc.

https://www.velojournal.ch/aktuell/nachrichten/detail/rueckschrittliche-planung-bei-der-velovorzugsroute/

peter, 6 months ago to fediverse

Today’s the day: Happy first #fediversary to me! 🥳

It was a real effort to build up this cozy new corner over here and I had to leave so many incredible people behind on good old Twitter, but it was so obvious already then that I could not be part of Musk’s vision. And oh my am I glad I left!

In this year I got to know a whole lot of new people and feel settled here: I love what you all put on my feed every day and I find the idea of #ActivityPub super exciting. Good times ahead!

peter, 9 months ago to VideoGames

I like reading other people’s introductions through #VideoGames, so here’s mine. I’m following @mustamakkara’s lead and am making this a chronological PC nostalgia edition from my early years 👾

1. Space Invaders
2. Lemmings
3. Prince of Persia
4. Sim City
5. Monkey Island
6. Stars!
7. Total Annihilation

I still remember dad’s computer in the attic where I played 1, 2, and 3. And then later my own always underspecced machine for 4, 5, 6, and 7.

#SevenGamesToKnowMe #7GamesToKnowMe

sarajw, 25 days ago to random

I'm so happyyyyyyyyy!!!

A profile photo of the cargo e-bike taken in front of a wide part of Hamburg's canals or maybe the north of the Außenalster. It's a long tail, big wheel at the front, chunky basket, two seats on the back behind the saddle with a foot rest, padding and guard rails.

CerstinMahlow, 5 days ago to random German

Mein Feedback: „Beschriften Sie Abbildungen und Tabellen. Zusätzlich: Dinge, die Sie als Screenshot einfügen, aber eine Tabelle zeigen, sind Tabellen, keine Abbildungen“

Reaktion: „Ich habe mich wirklich bemüht und mein Bestes getan, so gut es geht, zu verbessern, was Ihnen nicht gefällt“

„Abbildung 7: Tabelle xyz aus [komplette Quellenangabe]“

Und jetzt weiss ich auch nicht