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hrefna, 4 months ago to random

Thinking out loud: part of my thinking in how I am approaching #FeatherPub is what I started thinking of as the "boids model" of federated software development.

"But Hrefna, I sure as hell didn't hear about the 'boids model' in my SE classes"

Yes, this is just kind of my own colloquial thinking about it.

For those who are unaware, boids is an artificial life simulator based around the flocking behavior of birds. The idea is that we can simulate general flocking with a few basic rules.

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hrefna, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

Very tired of seeing takes like:

"The reason you are struggling is because you aren't familiar with social media applications."

or

"You are struggling because the problem space is complicated."

Like, just give people a glimmer of credit, please.

I'm not saying that I'm all that, but this isn't always to me, it is to a lot of people who have genuine concerns and at a minimum are being mislead by the documentation in the space.

impactology, 4 months ago to random

interaction design syllabus idea :

ask people to think of all the things they do via apps, computers, add a -ing to it & think how an interface is contributing to them doing those activities in a certain way.

organized around daily mundane social practices and needs and common life events

Like a bottom approach to teaching redesigning social practices

Supplementing it with deconstructing UI metaphors

https://issuu.com/instituteofnetworkcultures/docs/tod14-binnenwerk-def-pdf

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impactology, 4 months ago to random

Perfectly captures standard pedagogy followed in Indian education system : Plug and Chug, Cram and Flush

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-46951-1_13#Sec3

Plug and Chug, Cram and Flush by David A. Bella
https://ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/%28ASCE%291052-3928%282003%29129%3A1%2832%29

Characterisation of an engineering paradigm as ‘plug and chug’ and ‘cram and flush’

maaretp, 4 months ago to random

There's a generational change story unfolding with testers. Those who don't program are being replaced by those who do. Those who program only with "Robot Framework keywords" are next generation to replace. Skip languages specifically done for testing and learn programming with general purpose languages.

dahukanna, 4 months ago to random

When someone says, “make it easy to do …”, what they mean is, “make it match/align with my current mental model/perspective/expectation” I.e. their “map”, regardless of the existing, actual territory.

Bias is “misapplication” of individual & collective socio-cultural maps & refusing to update them.

The worst map, often used in key decision making is the “assumption” - A statement (map) taken as true (territory), without proof. Think about that, “map” accepted as “territory”, without proof!

jonny, 4 months ago to random

LLM-generated bug bounty manipulation, yet another demonstration of the fact that the space of "good" uses of LLMs for programming is very small compared to the vast ocean of adversarial uses. The tab is being called on all the technical debt we've accumulated in our systems of trust, and the high cost of "openness" without trust gets clearer every day.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/01/02/the-i-in-llm-stands-for-intelligence/

grimalkina, 4 months ago to random

You can't talk about gender when studying a field with massively enormous gender effects! You can't ask for constructs to be empirically validated! You must accept 20 person qualitative samples as speaking to a population of literally millions! You can't cite theory from psychology when talking about human beings and their psychology! So much software research is so deeply and unbelievably unserious.

dahukanna, 4 months ago to random

@impactology - related to your question of alternative pedagogy. How to world build by gathering - https://www.chasejarvis.com/blog/how-to-transform-your-meetings-with-priya-parkers-the-art-of-gathering/

being, 4 months ago to random

I'm realizing now that one of the biggest, and most underestimated, cultural differences is how much each culture appreciates context. I find that Ghanaian culture, like Burkinabè, uses a lot of context. E.g., if you are saying a restaurant will be closed because you saw it on Google maps, you might go "is Google maps accurate on opening times? (Pause for response). I just checked the restaurant we're going to. (Pause for question). It says it closes at 5. (Pause for realization). Yes, it's 6."

dahukanna, 4 months ago to random

I keep seeing people state they switched their browser from “implementation A” to “implementation B” - not naming names as that’s not required..

I use, on the daily:

1. Firefox for developers, Firefox nightly and Firefox.
2. Safari - MacOS 12,14 and IOS 11,15,17
3. Chrome/Edge/Vivaldi, etc.

Curious question: What’s the reason for only limiting use to one specific browser implementation?

impactology, 4 months ago to random

Limits of Reductionism from the book

Introduction to Psychoneuroimmunology by Jorge H. Daruna, 2nd Edition https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780123820495/introduction-to-psychoneuroimmunology#book-description

"Recognition that complexity cannot be avoided by progressively narrowing focus, a notion that has been dubbed ‘‘self-similarity’’ by chaos theorists"

"along with the observation that a specific influence can act to inhibit or excite a given process depending on the mix of other concurrent influences, have profound implications for research"

impactology, 4 months ago to random

What is one causal determinant that you think can make a person somewhat immune to bigotry?

It certainly isn't education, wealth, class or advanced degrees because I constantly see the most bigoted vile takes by folks with ivy league credentials

Is there perhaps any dehuminization study that examines how sometimes the processes of formal education and meeting its benchmarks for excellence and expertise don't include practices to develop morally

https://mastodon.social/@impactology/111436492042641388

grimalkina, 4 months ago to random

Just to continue on my beat of troubling narratives of achievement & cognition... mind-blowing to consider recent points made about social cognition and the flip of our deficit narratives

Let me try to put this in non-jargon terms. For years, it's been claimed on "classic" cognition tasks that lower social class (broadly speaking) predicts worse performance.

But what happens when you look at social cognition tasks that are thought to rely on the same core factors (like working memory)?

impactology, 4 months ago to random

I was reflecting on why do I have this need of seeking folks with unconventional, non-traditional life trajectories, folks who are rebellious, inquisitive and carved out a niche for themselves, by themselves. Folks who not only stood their ground and rebelled but also made something for themselves and I think it’s about courage.

I’ve realized I get along really well with folks who experienced lot of friction in life & after experiencing had to make out something original, independently.

tdpauw, 4 months ago to random

One more time 😉

Feature Branching is Evil 💪

Where: online at the Agile Alliance Tech Talks
When: next week, Wednesday, Jan 10th at 10 am ET (that should be 4 pm CET according to my calendar 🤷‍♂️ )

https://www.agilealliance.org/event/feature-branching-is-evil/

impactology, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

A Creative Technology Taxonomy – Blair Neal

https://ablairneal.com/a-creative-technology-taxonomy

https://laserpilot.github.io/Creative_Tech_Taxonomy/

vaurora, 5 months ago to random

This website is extremely funny but also a good lesson in web surveillance. Visit it from a desktop browser, sound on, trust me

https://clickclickclick.click/