jhilden

jhilden, 7 months ago to cyberpunk

Someone using the wreck of a MacBook Pro with a tether as a bike lock #cyberpunk

jhilden, 1 year ago to random

This webstore has a great Stock of ”Sorry, as an AI” products.

https://www.proshop.fi/?s=sorry+as+an+AI

jhilden, 4 months ago to cycling

Interesting!
Blog post discussing key results of a study on professional cargo bike adoption in Finland:
–A lack of awareness of the utility and benefits of cargo bikes
–The prevailing perception of parcel logistics as automobile-based
–Lack of financial incentives
–Infrastructural limitations in terms of the inadequate path widths suitable for cargo bikes, and winter maintenance
–Cost constraints: inadequate funding for bicycle planning in cities
#cycling #cargobike
https://pyoraliitto.fi/blogi/what-truly-hinders-cargo-bike-adoption

jhilden, 4 months ago to random

A friend shared this … diagram with me. I think this is a very good example of forcing a poorly chosen metaphor onto your data until maximum confusion ensues. The featured chart types and chosen examples also feel pretty random.

https://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html

jhilden, 10 months ago to transit

Neat! A cargo bike guide website with search function and classification by use cases. Some bikes are missing a bit of details, but a nice project.
#micromobility #cargobikes
https://cargobike.guide/en/modell/

jhilden, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to climate

Have the winters in Helsinki become more difficult for pedestrians, or are people these days just whiny snowflakes that want ”summer conditions in the midst of winter” (except, no-one is actually asking for that)?

Tried a quick experiment with FMI data for 31 years. There is a lot of variation but it seems at a glance that ”stripy” years with much snow and alternating warm and cold periods, causing slippery conditions, are becoming more common, and long cold periods rarer.

#climateChange

jhilden, 11 months ago to random

@moritz closing the morning session with a relevant Vonnegut quote. #vk23 #visualizingKnowledge
Sustainable design practices need more maintenance work and less creative one-offs.

jhilden, 6 months ago to random

Curious how your computer creates and preserves this digital microhistory of past visited wifis. Like these here, a bunch of networks used on a trip to Iceland back in 2016. This was even with a different computer.

jhilden, 6 months ago to cycling

This is a lovely non-fiction comic book about how cycling was a dominant form of travel in Finland until car-oriented urban planning marginalized it from the 1960s onwards. It has wider relevance, so hoping it gets translated. #cycling

https://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/art-2000009921526.html

jhilden, 11 months ago to random

Frank Elavsky @frankelavsky is doing a workshop on #accessible #dataviz as a part of the #VisualizingKnowledge conference program
on the 15th of June, 17:00–20:00.
Highly recommended!

https://vizknowledge.aalto.fi/workshops.html

jhilden, 7 months ago to random

Today’s random thought:
If German uses KI (Künstliche Intelligenz) for AI and Spanish uses IA (Inteligencia Artifical), et cetera, then why can’t we use TÄ in Finnish, for TekoÄly?

jhilden, 4 months ago to random

TIL, Fascinating structure

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_decoy_(structure)

Also:
”The word decoy is derived from the Dutch word eendenkooi, which means "duck-cage";[2] Chambers Dictionary suggests Dutch de kooi = "the cage".”

jhilden, 3 months ago to random

Lurb Hebalin

jhilden, 4 months ago to Typography

Typographical detail time:
The book ”Elolliset” (eng. ~ ”living beings”) by Iida Turpeinen features geographical coordinates with minutes and seconds of arc. Instead of the correct prime symbols, quotation marks have been used. This is a common mistake and can happen e.g. if straight quotation marks are used and then replaced. Also, surprisingly many fonts miss these symbols, but as they are simple in form they can usually be borrowed.
60°10′16″N 24°55′52″E

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_(symbol)

#typography

jhilden, 3 months ago to random

The Aalto infodesign showcases are pretty neat (Full disclosure: I advised some of the creators) #infodesign

https://infodesign.aalto.fi/projects/

jhilden, 2 months ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Concerns in 1994. “The computer may ask too much of its user”.
Image caption:
”These small symbols or icons have come to stay, but how many truly understands and can use this overflowing abundance?
Page from Helsingin Sanomat #interfaces

jhilden, 1 month ago to random

Wow I feel old, finding out that ”Parked Domain Girl” was retired in 2012

https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/parked-domain-girl

jhilden, 3 months ago to cycling

Seeing the number of cars in predicaments due to the snow in #Helsinki today is a good reminder that cars in themselves are perhaps more sensitive than bikes to winter conditions.

We’re just accustomed to such high levels of winter road maintenance for motor vehicles here that it isn’t noticed.

If you slip into a snow wall with your bike, you don’t need a showel to free it.

#cycling

jhilden, 7 days ago to random

#AuroraBorealis in #Loviisa on the Finnish Southern coast. To the naked eye this was like ”is there something there?” but the IPhone camera picked it up surprisingly well.

jhilden, 23 days ago to random

Interesting technique I hadn't thought of: Applying jitter to color. Article by @TylerSloan
https://nightingaledvs.com/color-jitter/ #visualization

jhilden, 1 month ago to random

I thought I had figured out a clever way to automatically add alt texts to images for InDesign using #PythonPillow and the 'ImageDescription' field, but then I learned that said field is ASCII only.

The XMP data could support unicode, but working with that is apparently a total pain.

jhilden, 1 month ago to cycling

The Gates belt drive is a fantastic invention, but I sure wish someone would make at least a partial enclosure for it.

Literally the only thing that breaks these is gravel, so would make a lot of sense to at least have the option of, like, just maybe… stopping gravel getting in the drive?
#cycling

jhilden, 4 months ago to random

Is this character familiar?
The helmeted, shouting big-handed ”no entry for unauthorized persons” figure, a regular at workplace fences in Finland.

Variations seem to exist at least in Europe, but where did it originate?

#signs #pictograms

Auringon_sikio, 4 months ago to random Finnish

Rajavyöhykekyltin punaisen käden tarina mietityttää.

Millaisen virkamiestyön tuloksena saatiin kylttiin tällainen ”veistossa tehty” käsi, jossa peukalo on melkein pikkusormen mittainen ja sormet tiukasti yhdessä niin, että kokonaisuus näyttää hahmona enemmänkin pehmispikarilta tai huonolta liekiltä kuin kohti ojennetulta kämmeneltä?

jhilden, 1 month ago to random

Summer tires on the cargo bike ✅