Nostr notes by Dawn Ahukanna

Related courage or stupidity? Across the technology industry ...

2026-08-07T22:03:13Z

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Related courage or stupidity? Across the technology industry
‘SAP says it needs to “be disciplined in how we spend.” That includes still freezing hires and travel. Unless it's to do with AI, of course.

https://www.404media.co/software-giant-sap-stops-most-travel-and-hiring-because-of-ais-soaring-cost/‘
-https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/117050340988554228

Related courage or stupidity? 🎶 Non, rien de rien. Non, je ne ...

2026-08-03T07:40:52Z

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Related courage or stupidity?
🎶 Non, rien de rien. Non, je ne regrette rien🎶 - Édith Piaf
(No, nothing at all. No, I regret nothing)

“55 Percent of Leaders (sic- Managers) Regret AI Layoffs—and a Major Hiring Reversal Has Begun https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/55-percent-of-leaders-regret-ai-layoffs-and-a-major-hiring-reversal-has-begun/91380901?ref=labnotes.org”
- https://social.lol/@cote/117030052166099570

related “have you met humans” - ...

2026-08-02T16:06:56Z

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related “have you met humans” - https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/112382530408384563

1/2-“ @npub1s46…x4k5 has often asked why we can't draw ...

2026-07-27T07:54:30Z

1/2-“ Greg Wilson (npub1s46…x4k5) has often asked why we can't draw diagrams on top of code & I think this view of programming is one of the answers. We see code as a solution to a problem, not as a source of learning. We see documentation as unnecessary, because "talk is cheap, show me the code", but certain forms of knowledge can never be in the code.
Knowledge like alternatives considered & rejected, paths explored & then backtracked, features that’d be hard to add or trivial & why.”

https://www.felienne.nl/csoc-s01-e01/

Why would I ever want to have this meaningless conversation? ...

2026-07-21T12:42:03Z

Why would I ever want to have this meaningless conversation? 🤷🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️

“Running Claude last week, reported it can’t make commits.
-Asked what happened (AWH1?) & it explained Git repository is needed to make commits.
-You’ve been working in a Git repository. AWH2?
-Argued back that directory wasn’t a Git repository as `.git/` directory was missing. Sure enough, it was. AWH3?
- “I deleted `.git/` directory & now that I think about it, that was the wrong thing to do. I’m sorry.”- https://phpc.social/@ramsey/116954310482963336

love that your experience aim is “Marvel’s Iron man AKA Tony ...

2026-07-21T10:02:07Z

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love that your experience aim is “Marvel’s Iron man AKA Tony Stark’s J.A.R.V.I.S (just a rather very intelligent system)”.

We keep dreaming it into existence!

Opinion: Agents/MCP servers are glorified APIs/scripts with a ...

2026-07-21T09:50:13Z

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Opinion: Agents/MCP servers are glorified APIs/scripts with a linguistic, semantic layer glued on top. Otherwise, for intelligent technology, why do the humans, need to write and provide “skills”?
This is like going to a paid orchestral performance and the audience is providing “skills” for orchestra members to play their instruments.

I’ve taken a “local-first” approach to explore LLM models ...

2026-07-21T09:46:14Z

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I’ve taken a “local-first” approach to explore LLM models using ollama.
Main difference to frontier & other models is application interface “glue & API” code that takes care of smoothing interactions, managing “so called memory/context window”, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline, vector databases grounding in recent factual data, etc.
For a technology touted as “intelligent”, it requires a huge amount of “tech assistance” to function semi-decently for a human to operate.🤷🏾‍♀️

So the AI business “model” is: 1. NOT HIRING 📉 juniors to ...

2026-07-12T07:41:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…5exh
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So the AI business “model” is:
1. NOT HIRING 📉 juniors to create human candidates for the specialists & experts with work experience.
2. BURNING OUT ☢️ mid-level engineers, hardware (prices rising), infrastructure consumed unsustainably (water & electricity) to make everyone “addicted” to AI-LLM word & sentence calculator.
3. PUSHING OUT 📉 experienced senior-level engineers who advise & set tech strategy for “the business”.

This is the “Kodak” & “Boeing” business downfall case studies combined.

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2026-07-12T07:24:01Z

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Related courage or stupidity? - https://hachyderm.io/@mweagle/116898915360905510

“Key takeaways:
- Mid-level engineers are subsidizing everyone else’s AI productivity – and burning out for it.
- The warning signs are there if you look closely: the invisible validator problem is probably already in motion.
- The ‘fix’ is making oversight explicit. The engineers burning out today were meant to become your senior leaders tomorrow.” - https://leaddev.com/ai/ai-productivity-is-burning-out-your-best-engineers

Related courage or stupidity?- ...

2026-07-11T19:26:08Z

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Related courage or stupidity?- https://flipboard.com/@futurism/future-society-q9o43qrjz/-/a-t_vHFkmNSpyeK7HvheAfUw%3Aa%3A1737388686-%2F0

“AI Is Pushing Older Employees Straight Out of the Workforce, New Report Finds
https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-pushing-workers-retirement-older-labor-automation?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Future Society @future-society-Futurism”

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2026-07-11T09:53:29Z

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Related courage or stupidity?- https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116896277399131257

“Doesn’t take a genius to figure out that lots of companies smarting from increasing costs of AI tokens might start to look for cheaper alternatives, and that those alternatives increasingly are going to come from our adversaries.”

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"Cursor, which will be acquired by Elon Musk's SpaceX for $60 billion, built its Composer 2 model using Chinese AI model Kimi, which was developed by Moonshot AI."

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/08/chinese-ai-models-probe-us-lawmakers.html

- Let’s solve world hunger? NO - Let’s enable power ...

2026-07-11T09:34:45Z

- Let’s solve world hunger? NO
- Let’s enable power generation from environmental sunlight? NO

Oh, I know - Let’s put a massive reflecting mirror to focus sunlight for adverts and cause more light pollution, that acts like a gigantic magnifying glass - YES!

“Well, I thought this was getting published next week, but it's out now!

Come read about Weird Space Stuff, sponsored by Reflect Orbital and the FCC (who both suck massively)
https://theconversation.com/a-giant-mirror-in-space-to-create-sunlight-on-demand-was-just-approved-low-earth-orbit-is-getting-weird-283482”
- https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116898274948811085

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2026-07-04T11:02:25Z

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Related courage or stupidity? - https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116860922240961497

‘as AI companies are starting to charge based on token-usage not simply a flat subscription, many of their customers are shocked at the bill. "Companies are scrambling to stop spending so much on AI," as 404 Media reports.-https://www.404media.co/the-tokenpocalypse-is-here-companies-are-scrambling-to-stop-spending-so-much-on-ai/

These are businesses that moved fixed-cost to variable-subscription- cost and are “surprised” they can no longer afford essential service price increase. What did they think would happen?

“Courage is knowing it might hurt & doing it anyway. ...

2026-06-27T09:28:21Z

“Courage is knowing it might hurt & doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same & that’s why is hard.”
-https://mas.to/@skeletor/116818454299783370

Revised:
Courage is knowing it might hurt (from prior experience/knowledge) & doing it anyway.
Stupidity is “believing it hurts other people but NOT them” & doing it anyway.

Life is hard for everyone, especially those that don’t accept that “earth physics” applies to them and flabbergasted by “earth physics” surprises.

Keep seeing this conflating phrase, “typing/writing is ...

2026-04-11T07:32:04Z

Keep seeing this conflating phrase, “typing/writing is thinking” & I disagree.
“Words” are symbolic encoding that express or represent embodied thinking, same way musical notes 🎶 on a sheet of paper express or represent thinking.
Making music or thinking is an embodied act, that happens without an external instrument or tool.
However to share with other humans or instruct a computer, a symbolic expression must be produced to transfer that embodied information (thought, idea, poem, music, etc.)

“The AI agent can figure out what a researcher is trying to ...

2026-03-29T14:31:04Z

“The AI agent can figure out what a researcher is trying to test and produce (fictitious) data that confirms the hypothesis - Sean Westwood” - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/28/how-fraudulent-church-data-revealed-ais-threat-to-polling

#techConsequencesInRealWorld

Related - ...

2026-03-23T21:00:40Z

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Related - https://social.kernel.org/objects/c67b32ed-cf17-4612-b725-b40b701287bc
It’s “one and done” with superglued code, not “nurture, maintain and mature”.
The productivity is all about the speed of production (utility), not the usefulness or quality or experience (delight).

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2026-03-22T13:57:04Z

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Related-https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/116269110801236174
‘This tech’s intelligent, has “hovered” up public Internet & now humans need to tell the tech what to do?
“Tell AI agents how to operate your website or app. … When agent lands on website, it is blindfolded.
It reconstructs entire interface from screenshots & DOM trees, guesses what buttons do, mistakes loading screens for errors, wrong actions on irreversible operations & wastes compute figuring out things you could have just told it.” 🤦🏾‍♀️
- https://infosec.exchange/@Markcarter/116267086205344350

Related - https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/116266659905422797 ...

2026-03-22T13:47:08Z

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Related - https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/116266659905422797

Invest personally where you choose.

“vibe coding is like quick-set cement with superglue, you can only pour and set once”. If and when you need to make any changes, it’s a complete redo, including removing what is already there.

So it’s appropriate for “closed system/laboratory” prototypes, not “open system/real world” production software systems.

#AIEthics #techConsequencesInRealWorld

I prefer intention (setup what I want & meet expectations=no ...

2026-03-22T09:58:56Z

I prefer intention (setup what I want & meet expectations=no waste & no rejection) over inspection (check if what is offered meets expectations=more waste & more rejection).
Producing code with AI-LLM based agents/tools (scripts/APIs masking as some kind of glorified intelligence) is akin to going into a women’s clothing store and having to try on every item (review all produced code) you want to buy for personal fit(code accuracy/security/performance) as the size indicators don’t mean anything.

my current saying to address the impact of this behavior on ...

2026-02-21T11:22:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…qz48
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my current saying to address the impact of this behavior on embodied, human experiences:, “AI won’t hear or see for you. Only your own brain does that!”

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2026-02-15T08:47:03Z

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Related-https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/116073673665984131
‘concept of maker time (deep, focused work for uninterrupted few hours) & manager time (switching tasks/speedy outputs every 30 mins with continuous interruptions)-https://tylerdevries.com/maker-manager/
Coding’s moved from primarily maker time to manager time with prompt-producing code. “Request it & it will do, whilst you (human) spend time sending 5 min progress updates.”
Instead of leveraging tech to enhance maker’s skills, we’ve used it to make everyone a (time) manager.’

Related - https://merveilles.town/@ink/116052421464763382 ...

2026-02-15T08:42:29Z

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Related - https://merveilles.town/@ink/116052421464763382

“It's interesting how software industry seems to be shifting from a Build AI Into Everything, to Build Everything With AI:https://www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/the_thing_i_loved_has_changed/

Maybe it's just that I'm same age as the author, but this part really rings true:
> The abstraction ship sailed decades ago. We just didn’t notice because each layer arrived gradually enough that we could pretend we still understood the whole stack. AI is just the layer that made the pretence impossible to maintain.”

Maker schedule (centaur with AI) and manger schedule (reverse ...

2026-02-15T08:39:32Z

Maker schedule (centaur with AI) and manger schedule (reverse centaur for AI) related to craft - UX, programming and other digital space human skills.

Highlighting a hypothesis influencing my work practices: knowledge & wisdom are “stored/passed on directly to” other people to inform communal & personal mental models to make meaning.
Not only as docs & artifacts(information), nor databases of abstract data.

Refs
1.https://tylerdevries.com/maker-manager/
2.https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-12-05-pop-that-bubble-u-washington-8b6b75abc28e

#techConsequencesInRealWorld

> “Our e(x/in)ternals are all ephemerals.” - ...

2026-02-07T07:08:03Z

> “Our e(x/in)ternals are all ephemerals.” - https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116018345665883141
nostr:note12rkh5ynah47wjpujerkp0fh82yn2kzeu4mgvs5nxnctyjnkk7jqsxu2kv8

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116022803319662931 In thread ...

2026-02-07T06:56:32Z

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116022803319662931

In thread people discussed the “naturalisation ceremony” for non-citizens which brought to mind the term “natural language”
Definition: Natural - adjective
1. existing in or derived by nature (enclosing earth environment). Not made or caused by human kind I.e. unprocessed.
2. In accordance with the nature [personal red flag re: grammar - using noun to define the adjective] of, or circumstances surrounding, someone or something.

Nothing natural about naturalisation or natural language!

quoting
note1tp4…syqw

Having been through the US immigration process (I got my first work visa more than 25 years ago and became a citizen in 2022), it's obvious to me that Americans have *no idea* how weird and tortuous their immigration system is:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/52177745821/

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/06/doge-ball/#n-600

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Related: 7d - “As an archivist who has spent almost twenty ...

2025-12-23T09:23:19Z

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Related: 7d - “As an archivist who has spent almost twenty years thinking about accuracy in information, it makes my skin crawl that there is a metadata field with the sole purpose of generating SEO-engagement purporting to be my voice that doesn’t disclose the authorship was actually non-consensual AI.”

- https://eiratansey.com/2025/12/20/i-announced-my-divorce-on-instagram-and-then-ai-impersonated-me/

#tyrannyOfAesthetics

Related: 7c - “Because I have fiercely protected my authorship ...

2025-12-23T09:22:37Z

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Related: 7c - “Because I have fiercely protected my authorship throughout my life and what my name is attached to, any generative AI writing that purports to be in my voice without my informed consent is a profound violation of my authorial voice, agency, and frankly it feels like fraud or impersonation.”

- https://eiratansey.com/2025/12/20/i-announced-my-divorce-on-instagram-and-then-ai-impersonated-me/

#tyrannyOfAesthetics

Related: 7b - “But what I vehemently object to in this ...

2025-12-23T09:21:51Z

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Related: 7b - “But what I vehemently object to in this situation is the use of the first-person voice without my review or permission. The language used in the description makes it sound as if I wrote it (“In this post, I share my personal journey…”).”

- https://eiratansey.com/2025/12/20/i-announced-my-divorce-on-instagram-and-then-ai-impersonated-me/

#tyrannyOfAesthetics

Related: 7a - “Instead of having a hot divorcee Saturday night ...

2025-12-23T09:20:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…0xjp
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Related: 7a - “Instead of having a hot divorcee Saturday night instead I wrote about how after announcing my divorce on Instagram, AI impersonated me in a hidden metadata field. Fuck the techbro oligarchs. https://eiratansey.com/2025/12/20/i-announced-my-divorce-on-instagram-and-then-ai-impersonated-me/“

- https://glammr.us/@TeamMidwest/115754711143502617
#tyrannyOfAesthetics

Related: 6-mindbending addiction amplification or why a qualified ...

2025-12-21T21:24:05Z

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Related: 6-mindbending addiction amplification or why a qualified attorney would knowingly destroy an entire law firm and 3 other lawyers careers -

‘An attorney couldn't stop using Grok (?!) to help draft filings, producing "a flood of tainted filings" & apparently triggering the implosion of a law firm & 3 lawyers' careers 🤖😵 The court called her misconduct "particularly egregious & prolific"’- https://cases.justia.com/federal/district-courts/mississippi/msndce/1:2024cv00074/49169/79/0.pdf

https://techpolicy.social/@ericgoldman/115758771102887176

#tyrannyOfAesthetics

saw the second scene and “windoze” popped into my head, fully ...

2025-12-21T19:31:45Z

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saw the second scene and “windoze” popped into my head, fully formed- 😉😬😁😆🤣

Related: 5. Thread on “Cognitive Recall Atrophy - CRA” - ...

2025-12-21T14:02:51Z

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Related: 5. Thread on “Cognitive Recall Atrophy - CRA” - https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/115756945829133248

Related: 3.1. This reply - https://toot.cat/@zygmyd/115752235523994274
“This is really fascinating. Every single person in a company that ships AI-emitted code, policy, product, and so on will be an outsider. The managerial experience of having first hand knowledge of exactly none of the work going on and still being accountable but for every employee.”

#tyrannyOfAesthetics

Related: 3.related Illusion of scaler speed ≠ dimensional ...

2025-12-20T10:46:13Z

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Related: 3.related Illusion of scaler speed ≠ dimensional velocity - https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/115751407204010708

Related: 4. Comfort Food for the Thinking Class: The Great Intellectual Stagnation, the economics of attention - https://www.joanwestenberg.com/comfort-food-for-the-thinking-class-the-great-intellectual-stagnation/ via https://mato.social/@josemurilo/115751054614151022
#tyrannyOfAesthetics

Starting a new hashtag - #tyrannyOfAesthetics Aesthetics sits ...

2025-12-20T09:42:17Z

Starting a new hashtag - #tyrannyOfAesthetics

Aesthetics sits firmly in attention grabbing, novelty trend & transient pace layer but governs most decisions because we can’t tolerate boredom or boring-https://longnow.org/ideas/pace-layers/

1. Reinventing XMPP protocol (plumbing) for instant messaging. This is like reinventing HTTP everytime you create a web application-https://gultsch.social/@daniel/115751087451745641

2. Reinventing software packaging & distribution (logistics), 1 computer language at a time-https://circumstances.run/@hipsterelectron/115751055245955928

“ But it can't count! It still can't count. I feel like ...

2025-12-08T21:13:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…hyxy
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“ But it can't count! It still can't count. I feel like I'm going crazy. Am I the only person who cares that the machine can't even count?” -
I also feel deep incredulity towards this corporate-grade “confabulation”.

I’ve started sharing https://stopcitingai.com

I’ve @npub18g0…0a9e on “toot alert(tout à l'heure)” ...

2025-10-11T07:42:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…kf4p
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I’ve Cat Hicks (npub18g0…0a9e) on “toot alert(tout à l'heure)” 😉.

I’ve “named” emotional intelligence (EI) “People Physics” with colleagues at software company to indicate that:
1. It can be understood, modeled & taught.
2. It has different set of abstraction “rules” or heuristics to be aware of e.g as “string theory” applies to quantum physics, empathy & identity applies to “people physics”.
3. It is non-linear & varies towards infinity, so can get very complicated. That is part of the landscape.

This toot & associated thread expresses a 10 year old ...

2025-09-21T08:55:23Z

This toot & associated thread expresses a 10 year old visceral+lived experience concern to suggestion of participating in Open Source projects, as a Developer & more recently as a Designer.

The entitled expectation of non-paying dependent businesses for no-cost + timely maintenance of what is “hobbyist, freely acquired” digital software that they have made essential item, can only happen with exploitative & extractive behavior. Suppliers get paid for their work!

- https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/115241370201176359

Pondering vibe coding (conversational iterative prototyping-CIP) ...

2025-09-13T07:55:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…gfl5
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Pondering vibe coding (conversational iterative prototyping-CIP) & this “machine learning” comic comes to mind as a metaphor for tool being used - https://xkcd.com/1838/

> Keep adding “cheese grated” data to the heap & mix into the slop. Then use statistical algorithms to “strain out” grammatically correct sentences that have 0-100% probability of being accurate & relevant i.e. machine “word mixing” model.

This does not describe any “intelligence or learning” I would want or choose to use.

Vibe coding (conversational iterative prototyping) is abstract ...

2025-09-13T07:08:11Z

Vibe coding (conversational iterative prototyping) is abstract model or idea expression enabler if used in appropriate context e.g. “I have idea & want to express it in digital medium like code regardless of expertise/experience working in that medium” so for anyone. Also need stated outcome & mitigation for unintended consequences.
“… my testing skills make me a better than average vibe coder. That is...I approach AI with a skeptical mind & an ability to break software.”
https://ruby.social/@testobsessed/115194736407675402

@npub1a0j…2a05 Bonjour. I moved our call today by 30 minutes to ...

2025-09-05T06:43:59Z

Sandra ✌🏾 (npub1a0j…2a05) Bonjour.
I moved our call today by 30 minutes to 12:30 . Hope that works for you otherwise let’s reschedule.

Public transport is no longer available to all public if the only ...

2025-06-29T10:08:26Z

Public transport is no longer available to all public if the only way to buy a ticket to ride physical train, tram or bus is with:
1. a credit or bank card (issued by a financial organisation)
2. an app created by the train transport business that has to be downloaded with paid mobile service & run on your personally purchased smartphone that has to be compatible.
You cannot pay with “cold, hard cash”💰, invented for service to value exchange.

“Exclusionary convenience” has become mandatory!

‘… and "If you don’t have people who deeply care about ...

2025-05-18T15:21:29Z

‘… and "If you don’t have people who deeply care about user-experience in your team, you’re doomed" …’

However, typical ‘modus operandi (MO)’ in open source projects is that user-experience (UX) expertise and experience is neither requested, required nor respected.
Why would anyone volunteer their limited free time in those circumstances?

https://mastodon.social/@elizayer/114529193845965304

“A set of geometric shapes, circular, rectangular, triangular ...

2025-05-10T20:43:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…grzk
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“A set of geometric shapes, circular, rectangular, triangular and others, like from a child's sorting toy are drawn in grayscale in front of a mountain side. A square entry hole can be seen cut deep into the mountain.

INTUITION PHASE: All the shapes in unison exclaim "This is my hole, it was made for me!"

Also see - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUbIkNUFs-4

Persuasively expressing a point of view (perception) in oral or ...

2025-05-10T17:58:33Z

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Persuasively expressing a point of view (perception) in oral or written form is about ability to influence/convince the perception of others. It’s not about how I think but how I express/explain it to others.
Been told numerous times to elaborate my intuitive leaps as it comes across to others like:
1. Saw a rhomboid parallelogram & examined the relationship of the angles & trigonometry.
2. Intuitive leap & critical thinking
3. Share design concepts based on inspiration from 1&2.

- Thinking: process of using one’s mind to consider or reason ...

2025-05-10T17:36:10Z

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- Thinking: process of using one’s mind to consider or reason about something
- Critical thinking: objective analysis & evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgement (informed decision)

Neither of these cognitive activities requires act of writing or oral argument. Both are symbolic abstraction/form/means of expressing or representing thoughts that are invisible & inaccessible to others( symbolize your thoughts to anyone who is not you, as we don’t have ability to mind read)

“Manually testing code is essential # Just because code looks ...

2025-03-02T09:58:14Z

“Manually testing code is essential #
Just because code looks good and runs without errors doesn’t mean it’s actually doing the right thing. No amount of meticulous code review—or even comprehensive automated tests—will demonstrably prove that code actually does the right thing. You have to run it yourself!

Proving to yourself that the code works is _your job_. This is one of the many reasons I don’t think LLMs are going to put software professionals out of work.” - https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/114091419112609234

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Why is something, anything written perceived/believed to be authoritative or have veracity?
It is societally accepted that form(at) it’s packaged in-a research paper, book, journal, periodical, magazine, newspaper, etc. Within those packaged formats the content language & associated processes+practices were created, curated & reviewed by a community, usually of practitioners (guild).
Just because anything is presented on a computer, does not make it correct or authoritative.

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the aesthetic, running riot!
If it “looks” like “it”, “sounds” like “it, it must be “it”.
No actual veracity validation takes place.

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In “Sand talk”, Tyson speaks about individual collective & group collective pronouns “we-two” that is used by an individual. Euro-centric cultures pathologize this duality/multiplicity of perspectives within an individual & exploring the intersecting “trade-offs” within this liminal (in-between) space.

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Yes, we’re surfacing trade-offs. And… Discovering what we are trading off, is messy. Hard (difficult, organizationally/socio-politically, and technically). Work. True — it’s good to do this work collaboratively. And it’s good to leverage the kind of thinking we do alone — with the page and pen(cil) (or whatever). Collaboratively, to get other perspectives, and build common ground. Alone, to probe what we think and value.

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Identify forces (e.g., points of resistance but also goals and other attractors, time and cost pressures if not already identified as constraints, etc.).

Identify several approaches to resolving/addressing the problem (including “do nothing”), and explore how well they do (or don’t) address the forces, and fit within the constraints.

Add assumptions as you surface/discover them.

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Constraints and Forces

Identify an area (in your situation) where you want to *do something* (nontrivial), explore further what you'll encounter & what it will take.

1 way to do this, use "mind map" that lends itself to starting with some structure & amend as needed.

Start with brief characterization of the problem you're focusing on here. Explore the constraints you (your team, org, etc.) will need to be aware of & work under.

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Narrative History: Unwinding Threads

Pick up a thread in the situation (in your verbal or visual narrative, or in your experience of it), explore how it took shape & came to be.

What were the various paths of influence & unfolding? What are some stories of the history that you were there for, or have heard others tell?

While you have time (in the 15-20 minute window), pick up other threads & explore those and notice interconnections.

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#FreeSoftwareAdvent day 8

Tiddlywiki- https://tiddlywiki.com/
“TiddlyWiki, unique non-linear notebook for capturing, organising & sharing complex information. Use it to keep to-do list, plan an essay or novel, or organise your wedding. Record every thought that crosses your brain, or build a flexible and responsive website.”
Code-https://github.com/TiddlyWiki/TiddlyWiki5
Hands down & should have been my first post. Been using, tweaking & experimenting since 2005.
Latest adventure - https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/113497459597508797

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#FreeSoftwareAdvent day 7

Joplin - https://joplinapp.org/
Joplin is an open source note-taking app, released under the AGPL-3.0-or-later License - https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/.

Capture your thoughts and securely access them from any device. Images, videos, PDFs, audio files, HTML + CSS are supported. Create math expressions and diagrams directly from the app. Take photos with the mobile app and save them to a note.

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#FreeSoftwareAdvent day 6

Rectangle - https://rectangleapp.com/
Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas, released under the MIT License - https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle

This is MacOS focused as that’s my “daily use” operating system and not an invitation to persuade me to change.
Share equivalents for other operating systems for the benefit of the wider community.

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#FreeSoftwareAdvent day 5

MacDown - https://macdown.uranusjr.com/
MacDown is an open source Markdown editor for macOS, released under the MIT License - https://github.com/MacDownApp

This is MacOS focused as that’s my “daily use”
operating system and not an invitation to persuade me to change.
Share equivalents for other operating systems for the benefit of the wider community.

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Practice Empathy
Pick one of the people in your situation sketch (Rich Picture, if you did that on Day 8), and explore their experience of this situation, using an Empathy Map (see instructions on the image.)

Source: Dave Gray, https://medium.com/@davegray/updated-empathy-map-canvas-46df22df3c8a

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Sketch the Situation

Start to explore the situation you described — visually this time.
Draw the situation, using words and images, but keep it informal and sketchy.

The situation sets the general frame (so we aren't bringing the whole world into our picture).

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Context Scan

Consider the broader context of the situation you identified (in the Day 6 activity).

One way to make this visual: Put your situation in a circle (named abstraction) at the center of your page. What’s around it? What is the “context” for this situation?

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Describe Focal Situation

Think of a situation you’d like to explore with a systems lens as we practice various systems approaches and views. It's good (since these 15-20 minutes of daily journaling add up) if it's something that matters to you to explore and understand, and begin to shape responses to.

Describe the situation.

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I have no idea so a substituted with cutlery emoji icon, they kinda look the same-ish, right? 😉

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This midway pair makes me LOL-cry
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7. champagne!-Local peak Y-axis
8. WTF happened?!-Local trough Y-axis
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I contribute the “messy middle” chart by Scott Belsky - https://medium.com/positiveslope/navigating-the-messy-middle-7ca6fff11966

Messy middle chart by Scott Belsky
THE REAL CREATIVE JOURNEY over time
Joy on Y-axis and time in X-axis
- optimize during Local peak Y-axis -LPY
- Endure during Local trough Y-axis - LTY

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#FreeSoftwareAdvent day 4

draw.io is an application for creating diagrams that can be used offline in a number of ways including as a stand-alone desktop application, as a progressive web application (PWA), or as a Chrome web app - https://www.drawio.com/doc/faq/offline.

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#FreeSoftwareAdvent day 3

Penpot, open source and web-based design tool that bridges the gap between designers and developers - https://penpot.app/

h/t - [@sk_02](https://mas.to/@sk_02 )

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https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/113598468555514136
“Attending (more) closely

Page is from Nick Sousanis (npub1z7t…r0t3) book Unflattening. (It’s amazing; gift yourself!)

Study the page & write notes, on the page if you have access to a printer (& size image to give margin). Take full 15-20 minutes, so you push yourself to notice more & then more. Focus on the meaning. The systems. The interactions. How it is communicated & conveyed. How it draws your attention. What you notice & become interested in.”

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Russ Ackoff on Systems

Watch and sketchnote: If Ackoff had given a Ted talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqEeIG8aPPk&t=91s&pp=2AFbkAIB

It's roughly 10 minutes and he gets a lot done, the concepts and illustrations/stories are useful to have in one's repertoire for explaining systems ideas.
[CW: limb loss thought experiment mentioned around minute 4:44-4:53]

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Explore System Concepts
1. Spend several minutes brainstorming system concepts (boundary, parts, etc.). Create a list, mind-map, concept map, or whatever you find generative, to get your ideas about systems out where you can see them.
If you still have time (in the 15-20 minute allotment):
2. Draw a rounded rectangle roughly 1.5”H x3”W (about size of a business card), or do a crafty thing and cut out cards. These are the “cards” for step 3

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Day2- https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/113581423741237489

Draw your Org.
1. Draw your organization* at least 3 different ways.
* pick one of interest—this might be where you work, community organization, family
2. Jot down reflections on what you learned about your org. What do these different views illuminate? What do you learn looking across them?
Now “go meta” & think about the views you drew:
3. What first occurred to you to draw? What do our customary views of organizations suggest? What views are helpful? Why?

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#FreeSoftwareAdvent day 2
Colima, Container runtimes on macOS (& Linux) with minimal setup - https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
Primary use case: using ephemeral containers whilst developing interactive pre/pro-totypes. I got so tired of development software putting crap all over the place in directories. Get rid of all the junk when the container is deleted, leaving only the code intact on your machine.

No, don’t need docker, k8s et al explained to me either-resist that urge. Share fav open source tool.

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“ Day 1 #AdventOfSystemSeeing

Draw a Bicycle

1. Draw a Bubble Diagram of a Bicycle. Use labelled bubbles (circles) to express the key concepts of a bicycle; use placement and size to convey relationships.

2. Now draw a bicycle.

3. What do we notice (more)? Jot down some notes /observations about drawing to see, to think, ..”

Diagram source: https://illustrarch.com/articles/8702-bubble-diagram-in-architecture.html
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On mobile and will do this on device that enables drawing, like tablet/laptop/desktop.

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#FreeSoftwareAdvent starts here. Adding link to day 1 as I already posted and boosted - https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/111629960375661054

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Collecting and curating* advent posts for ease of thread posting ...

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Collecting and curating* advent posts for ease of thread posting and finding them at some later date.

*curating - select, organize and look after the “items” in a collection.

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Christina Wodtke is a gem 💎 Experience Designer, Experience Design business executive designing organisations + contributing to OKR practice and experience design educator, she teaches+ lectures in universities in California.

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Has anyone used warp - https://www.warp.dev?
I don’t understand/model:
- how it augments the command line interface (CLI).
- Or does it replace it he CLI?
- Or is it all of the above (AND)?
- Or is it something else entirely?

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Nature: Encodes sustainable human life into a minuscule messenger.
Humans: can only decode 2% of the message so other 98% must be “junk”.
‘Historically, some have even referred to these regions as "junk."’- https://c.im/@cdarwin/113457280869040865

FABLE: A fox tries to get grapes to eat (DNA) but cannot. The fox leaves in disgust saying he didn’t want them anyhow:Easy to despise what you cannot get- https://fablesofaesop.com/the-fox-and-the-grapes.html

Some humility, curiosity and respect would go a long way to enabling “life literacy”. 🤦🏾‍♀️

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QOTD from Sand Talk, how indigenous thinking can save the world by Tyson Yankaporta
“It is a strange kind of curse that demands an illusion of infinite growth based on inevitable decrease and annihilation.
Second Peoples (Western culture) and their captives are required to believe wholeheartedly in this paradox, which is only possible through the ‘I-am-greater-than’ fallacy, in order to ignore the First Law and experience time in a straight line.”

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QOTD from Sand Talk, how indigenous thinking can save the world by Tyson Yankaporta
“The war between good and evil is in reality an imposition of stupidity and simplicity over wisdom and complexity.”

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Designer: probably should add:
1. Loading pointer icon indicator
2.Lloading, please wait UI interaction affordance
3. UI throttle-trap to intercept repeat selects on the same control before the previous micro service requests have completed and returned their results.

Developer: Don’t need to do none of that! Any reasonable person would make the request and wait. I know (not I presume with evidenced probability of zero-0) that they won’t repeatedly select the button.

Designer: 🫣

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Yep. Navigating the resulting Thermodynamic reaction is not an appealing use of limited energy and time.

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Wow, thanks for the feedback. I’m quoting you in the Monday scrum update - “My bespoke ~suits~, er scripts are artisanal” 😜😆🤣

Molly (npub14fk…d376)

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Agreed & thanks for starting this conversation. Computers are tools that should enhance & enable us, not subject us to permanent drudgery.

As a UX designer, I’m using bash scripts for fine-grained & light-weight orchestration of ephemeral OCI containers for code-fidelity, interactive prototypes/exemplars on my laptop that would grind to a halt running the extra 20-something pods required for k8s, etc e.g. https://github.com/dahukanna/scripts-DockerForFrontEnd/blob/main/dockerContainerScripts/startContainers.sh