🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@qoto.org

It's funny. If someone had asked me, seven years ago, "what is the key principle of teaching Physics," I would never have said "mystery." Now it would be at least a top-3 idea.

The only way I know how to teach is this:
1) Students summarize their understanding.
2) We poke the universe with some experiment or activity.
3) Students admit that this makes no sense.
4) We name the mystery.
5) We use logic, more experiments, graphs, etc. to solve the mystery.
6) Students summarize their (new) understanding four ways, naming this their "current model."
7) We poke the universe again, and the cycle of confusion-->named mystery-->model begins again.

look at this fucking thing

Principles of UI, A Thread:
1. natural mapping
2. visibility of system state
3. discoverability
4. constraints and affordances
5. habits and spatial memory
6. locus of attention
7. no modes
8. fast feedback
9. do not cause harm to a user's data or through inaction allow user data to come to harm
10. prefer undo to confirmation boxes. For actions that can't be undone, force a "cooling off" period of at least 30 seconds.
11. measure using Fitt's, Hick's, GOMS, etc. but always test with real users.

65.

IF YOU PROGRAM A "NO" BUTTON TO SAY "MAYBE LATER" YOU HAVE FAILED AT BOTH INTERFACE DESIGN AND BASIC CONSENT

via @HTHR

Working on an extra-chromatic version of NGC 3132 that utilizes all of the available filters from the near-infrared of NIRCam to the mid-infrared of MIRI. Needs much work, but I can see a worthy composite underneath all the bad.

#Mario

Examples in the link.

"Andy Saunders has an obsession. It's Project Apollo, one of the defining events in our species' history.

But he's also got a deep frustration. And that's the pictures that record those remarkable space missions in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
[...]
The result is a gloriously sumptuous new book called Apollo Remastered. Four hundred pictures that detail humanity's first foray to another world."

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62662685

#Moon #Apollo #Space

@readsteven @tsturm

There are two types of people in the world

You gotta love the OG open source guys

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/unix-legend-who-owes-us-nothing-keeps-fixing-foundational-awk-code/

Just seems easier for new users if everything seems to happen seamlessly within their server, without any more logins required?

I actually would agree with your statement, replacing "server" with "client". I don't see any benefit in a server loading a lot of content from another one. On the other hand, I would be nice if frontends were able to completely load a profile from its own instance.

It also makes sense, privacy-wise, to not have your instance know about which content you browse, and to instead only use it when you need to interact.

Looks like a lot ofpeople are confused/annoyed by Mastodon and many other Fediverse platforms not backfilling old posts when an account is followed.

This complete lack of backfilling means that many new accounts or those with few followers may appear completely blank, even if they've posted lots of interesting stuff.

If you agree and think Mastodon should backfill at least some posts when people follow an account, please give this issue a thumbs up:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/34

If you're not comfortable using github, let me know and I can try to post on your behalf.

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Backfilling

#Scottish people: what do you think of Julie Nolke's #accent in this sketch?

(Conversely, I find Karen Gillan's American accent totally convincing.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxb-s58-ntE

JavaScript in Space: James Webb Telescope (Rational Rose)

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/167-javascript/15673-javascript-in-space-james-webb-telescope.html