Just realized I never posted an #introduction, so here we go:
Hi 👋 my name is Hagen and currently I'm pursuing my PhD in computer science. My research interests include Information Visualization, Scientific Visualization techniques, and Computer Graphics.
Please check my personal website for more details on my work and publications and feel free to say hi!
Do you work in #webdev? I want you to order an old phone from ebay right now. Like a Samsung Galaxy S4 or something. Go visit your website with it. Did you have a good experience? Well, 1 in every 10 visitors has that experience. Fix your shit.
Last week @terjefjelde asked me about my #composing techniques, use of #musicTechnology, and thoughts about #musicProduction, and I promised to reply when I had more time. Here’s a too-long thread about this and other things that came to mind…
Everything I’ve said so far is about composing for live #performance, and specifically about preparing music (on paper) to be brought to life by #performers who are trained to interpret it. That’s most of what I do in music. But I would love to work more with #improvising players and explore that side of my musicianship again. Either way though, I’ve always depended on performers, and #liveMusic has always been my focus.
8/18
Many times I’ve had the experience of being really pleased with a #performance when I heard it live, and then a little disappointed when I heard the #recording of the same performance. And I think that’s because there’s a kind of magic to a committed performance that evaporates from the recording, leaving me bugged by minor flaws that didn’t bother me at the concert.
15/18
A thought about form validation in JavaScript. If your form is well designed only a small minority of users will hit form validation. So why give everyone the performance hit of downloading and running the JavaScript when that minority of users could hit server-side validation (which you need anyway)? #frontend#performance#javaScript
“Mass #propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in #cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”
― Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism" #quotes#mediaStudies#commOdon#truth#agnotology#history
As a place that both presents and develops work, The Arts Center is a vibrant laboratory for performance that fosters a dynamic relationship between the #arts, #scholarship, and #community
I've written a bunch of books about software. However, this account is much more likely to talk about random stuff, society, #queer and #leftist politics, #antifascism, #cats, #green issues & food more than tech specifically.