Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@qoto.org

S3 heisst dann S6 und sonst ändert sich auch alles

Die AG Digitale Geschichtswissenschaft, der Verband der Historikerinnen und Historiker Deutschlands und das Deutsche Historische Institut Paris schreiben zum 2. Mal den Peter Haber Preis für Digitale Geschichtswissenschaft aus. Deadline: 16.1.2023. Alle Infos hie: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/digital-history-tagung-2023/digital-history-tagung-2023-call-for-posters @histodons @historikerinnen @digitalhistory #histodons #PeterHaberPreis2023

Babbage Patch Finds--a daily deep dive into CBI's vast computing/software archives

One of my favs of CBI photos '74 CDC Cyber 70 office. (bright colors, motion, wide angle & services). I used it for the cover of my MIT Press 2017 book Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry.

My book is on the tech, labor, gender, automation, environment, and maintenance of programming & sociotechnical systems.

#histodons #history #science #technology #sts #hci #work #IT #tech #sociology

Die Keynote am DH-Tag wird von Frederike van Oorschot von der Universität Bonn gehalten. Mit dem Thema „Neue Technik(en) – neue Wissenschaft?!“ wirft der Vortrag dabei hermeneutische und epistemologische Fragen der #DigitalHumanities auf.
Über Zoom ist er auch von fern verfolgbar!

#unboxingDH

"Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year"

Good.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/amazon-alexa-is-a-colossal-failure-on-pace-to-lose-10-billion-this-year/

Seven years ago, a fellow named "MIDI_MAN" compiled 130,000 unique MIDI files by browsing a ton of sites, placing them into directories, and generally assembling years of MIDI music.

Now that collection (1gb compressed, 3.5gb uncompressed, 130,000 files for real!) is at the Internet Archive at this URL:

https://archive.org/details/midiman_melody_kit_1.0_2015-06

Updated post: Automatically updating a publications page with API calls to @ORCID_Org and now doi.org to grab authors information as well! ✨

https://chrisholdgraf.com/blog/2022/orcid-auto-update/

Thanks to https://hachyderm.io/@skepteis@skepteis.social for giving the inspiration to give this another shot and grab the extra author information

Babbage Patch Finds--a daily deep dive into CBI's vast computing/software archivces

PLATO

In 1982 at the World's Fair, two boys are enthralled with the onscreen graphics of PLATO.

PLATO was an educational computing and software system developed in the early 1960s at Univ. of Illinois and purchased and expanded by Minneapolis-HQ'd Control Data Corp

#PLATO #Children #Computing #Games #Education #Graphics #HCI #CompSci #HIstory #Histodons #Sociology #Anthropology #AI #STS #videogames #Commodon

Hello, Mastodon! We are the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation! (http://www.iftechfoundation.org)

We help with maintaining, improving, and preserving tools & services for interactive fiction, and foster the growth of the art form. Projets under our umbrella include Twine, IFComp, Narrascope, IFDB, the Intfiction.org forums, and more!

We just have this account for now but are exploring how else we could use Mastodon. More news later, stay tuned! 🙂

#gamedev #interactivefiction #twine

1/ "What programming language should I teach?" is the least productive question to ask in computing. There's a good reason: it's the wrong question to ask. The reason language wars feel pointless is that they're a symptom of this problem. Here's why:

2/ Curricula are never designed in isolation. All curricula, for anything, have to consider at least two things. First: goals. These include learning objectives, but often go farther (like "students must eventually get jobs"). ↵

Twitter might be dying, but at least garbage metaverse takes are alive & well...
https://venturebeat.com/virtual/no-the-metaverse-is-not-dead-its-inevitable/

Please boost: I'm looking for literature on legal requirements for instances (moderation, data protection, liability etc.).

Especially for larger organizations/companies that want to run their own instance.

Focus on EU/Germany. Please help.

#mastodon #legal #GDPR

1/ Many will tell you why Python is great for teaching coding, so I'll tell you ways it's not.

State is a bad default. It should be legal but safe & rare. The arc of programming is long and bends towards immutability. Its early use creates messes (eg, "a variable is a box".)

2/ Rich and robust programming requires a strong understanding of data models and invariants. Python is weak at expressing either of those. You don't notice it until you miss it. ↵

This is such an amazing list, I don’t care what happens to the other place, it’s worth being here just for this list!

Political Scientists on Mastodon
https://brentonpeterson.github.io/Mastodon-PoliScientists/

Wer weiss?

Hello everyone! #Zettlr now has a Mastodon account, and I'll try to slowly migrate over from Twitter over the coming months!

If you do not yet know what Zettlr is:

Zettlr is a free and open source Markdown editor that is especially suited for people who write longer texts. It supports citations out of the box, has an import/export system powered by @pandoc and many more things!

Looking forward to meeting y'all! :)

If you want to know more, head over to our website: https://www.zettlr.com/

I’m building up my collection of Mastodon apps. So far, I haven’t found one that implements a Twitterrific-style “unified timeline” that shows (in Twitter parlance) tweets and retweets from people I follow *and* all my @-mentions in a single, reverse-chronological timeline. Does anyone know if this exists anywhere?