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simulo

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About simulo

UX Researcher, Anthropologist (learning, organizations, tech-culture), occasional programmer and data analyst.

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    Comment #46069482

    Penpot took it from CSS.

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    Comment #45720293

    Oh, good to know that it depends on locale, I always wondered about that behavior!

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    Comment #44682082

    If you are interested in TypeScript for the browser, you might also like --erasableSyntaxOnly option of typescript >5.8. The only tool needed for it is the typescript compiler itse…

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    Comment #42655354

    Bruno Latour’s "The Pasteurization of France" is about Louis Pasteur and the creation and success of germ theory. It does explain it not by focussing on Pasteur per se, but by show…

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    Comment #42051906

    > Not because I think it's helping him in the long run, but because it could help him feel better now. Very much this: The long run is vague, and the only sure thing is that we wil…

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    Comment #41932884

    These examples (dogs,cars...) are badly used in most programming books, but they can make sense if you show them in context of a small game or whatever else actually draws you an (…

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    Comment #41630745

    That's a terrific track. Awesome intro riff, too.

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    Comment #41209264

    For learning about the basics of statistics, my go-to resource is "Discovering Statistics using [R/SPSS]" (Andy Field). "Improving Your Statistical Inferences" (Daniel Lakens) need…

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    Comment #41200285

    I second both resources!

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    Comment #40923790

    No, afaic it does not.

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    Comment #40251074

    I guess mainly recreation and, particularly, teaching.

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    Comment #40250743

    I read his "learning processing" many years ago. It was the book that made programming made sense to me. The explanations are excellent, the outcomes interesting and it helped me t…

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    Comment #39421145

    I knew the linked-in-the-article https://lindeloev.github.io/tests-as-linear/ which is also great. A bit meta on the widespread use of linear models: "Transcending General Linear R…

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    Comment #39025184

    I’m pretty happy with kdenlive, too.

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    Comment #38711729

    You could ask for feedback on https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/ where quite some UX designers in open source projects hang out. I personally remember nokias flowella fondly, …

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    Comment #38581443

    Since some comments point out that the design looks old: I agree. However, the framework’s author describes the usecase as building simple UIs for what otherwise would be used via …

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    Comment #38403443

    I also throught of ART as a fork of RawTherapee, also forked with the aim to make it easier to use. I wondered if that is something hard to avoid: Over time features get added, usa…

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    Comment #38300785

    Depends on perspective - graphic designers and typographers might find "Frutiger" to be the obvious part and wonder what "Aero" means.

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    Comment #37656237

    Yes, I loved that, too. More abstract, also short, no pressure: Proteus.

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    Comment #37457044

    This is very similar to what Grudin suggests in his HCI history "From tool to partner": Apple used to be very usability and research focussed in the 80s and early 90s, but turned a…

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    Comment #37405078

    > Just send them an email from the contact link? I guess – this is what I did.

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    Comment #37404200

    that would be fitting, I thought the same.

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    Comment #37402584

    That is sad. She was with the web from its early days (her first book on the subject is from 1996), taught a lot of people, and bridged several communities: design, web standards, …

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    Comment #37280914

    I vaguely remember even seeing Chrome distributed as bundleware.