Jan D

#UX Research, #Design, Science and Technology Studies (#STS), #Anthropology.
Some coding (JS, Python) and software architecture
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Website: https://fordes.de
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github: https://github.com/jdittrich

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2026-09-20 17:59:35 UTC

Jethro Masís: Making AI Philosophical Again: On Philip E. Agre’s Legacy
https://philarchive.org/archive/MASMAP
#agre #phenomenology #AI #philosophy

2026-09-20 17:51:05 UTC

Which end user software hacks or repurposing have you seen or used yourself? I'd like to collect some examples, be they private, or even more interesting, department or company-wide. A classic one is using excel as a database.
My intension is not finger-pointing users’ ignorance of "right" tools, but how people come up with own solutions (ideally, you can give some context around problem and solution).
Retoot for reach.
#UX #hacks #DIY

2026-08-11 18:11:25 UTC

"For Hegel, your thoughts aren’t trapped in a cerebral box: they act on the world, making meaning and expressing your freedom"
https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-think-like-a-hegelian
#philosophy #hegel #idealism

2026-08-03 14:14:05 UTC

The Postmodernist Side of the Force
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/665
#philosophy #starwars #postmodernism

2026-08-01 18:51:02 UTC

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gibt ein paar online-sicherheits-forscher, die selber auch auf scams reingefallen sind – kann echt allen passieren.

2026-07-29 12:18:24 UTC

"This conception of mind as an isolated being underlies the conception that esthetic experience is merely something “in mind,’ and strengthens the conception which isolates the esthetic from those modes of experience in which the body is actively engaged with the things of nature and life. It takes art out of the province of the live
creature."
John Dewey, Art as Experience, p.264
#pragmatism #art #philosophy

2026-07-07 07:45:02 UTC

»Useful Work versus Useless Toil« by William Morris
»This: one [kind of work] has hope in it, the other has not... hope of rest, hope of product, hope of pleasure in the work itself«
https://www.marxists.org/archive/morris/works/1884/useful.htm
#work #hope #philosophy #craft

2026-06-25 19:48:33 UTC

Rick Roderick: The Self Under Siege: Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wetwETy4u0&list=PLA34681B9BE88F5AA
#philosophy #postmodernism

2026-06-18 13:25:08 UTC

Any @npub1tgg…qwzh calc users here?
I try to wrap my head around the buttons/inputs in the navigator sidebar. The tree widget below makes sense, but are any of the other features useful? I could not get data range button to work and the up/down buttons; the collapse seems to be a usabilit hazard and the scenario button triggers a whole new view...
#libreoffice #spreadsheets #usability
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2026-06-05 14:47:58 UTC

Rick Roderick "Self under Siege" lectures on (postmodern) philosophy in the 20th century:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wetwETy4u0&list=PLA34681B9BE88F5AA
#philosophy #lectures #postmodernism

2026-05-28 19:24:52 UTC

I wrongly assumed that Javascript would .sort() numbers as 3,20,100
but it does 100,20,3
It created a very strange bug that looked like a modulo takes place. Which it kinda did.
#programming #javascript

2026-04-10 07:56:09 UTC

“Don’t research us”—How Mastodon instance rules connect to research ethics by
Marco Wähner, Annika Deubel, @npub14d0…j75c and @npub19jv…ryup
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11616-024-00855-6
#mastodon #research #ethics

2026-03-14 16:37:41 UTC

Jürgen Habermas has died: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Habermas
#philosophy #germany #publicSphere

2026-02-27 09:01:00 UTC

›What ethical concerns do software engineers have, and what do they (feel they can) do about them?« (2023)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3593013.3594012
»...ethics interventions, research, and education must expand from helping practitioners merely identify issues to
instead helping them build their (collective) power to resolve them.«
#ethics #programming

2026-02-26 21:17:50 UTC

»…the Luddites themselves “were totally fine with machines,” says Kevin Binfield […] They confined their attacks to manufacturers who used machines in what they called “a fraudulent and deceitful manner” to get around standard labor practices. “They just wanted machines that made high-quality goods,” says Binfield, “and they wanted these machines to be run by workers who had gone through an apprenticeship and got paid decent wages”«
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-really-fought-against-264412/
#luddism #technology

2026-02-25 08:34:22 UTC

“Yet the life which men, women and children actually lead, the opportunities open to them, the values they are capable of enjoying, their education, their share in all the things of art and science, are mainly determined by economic conditions. Hence we can hardly expect a moral system which ignores economic conditions to be other than remote and empty.”
John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty, p225
#Johndewey #pragmatism #economy #ethics

2026-02-15 08:41:10 UTC

“A whole train of passengers (individually brave enough) will be looted by a few highwaymen, simply because the latter can count on one another, while each passenger fears that if he makes a movement of resistance, he will be shot before any one else backs him up. If we believed that the whole car-full would rise at once with us, we should each severally rise, and train-robbing would never even be attempted.” – William James
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Will_to_Believe
#pragmatism #philosophy #religion

2026-02-10 16:45:20 UTC

»The unspecifiability of the process by which we thus feel our way forward accounts for the possession by humanity of an immense mental domain, not only of knowledge but of manners, of laws and of the many different arts which man knows how to use, comply with, enjoy or live by, without specifiably knowing their contents. «
Michael Polanyi, »Personal knowledge«
#philosophy #skill #knowledge

2025-11-05 11:27:26 UTC

"We reject the use of generative artificial intelligence for reflexive qualitative research"
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5676462
#qualitativeResearch #LLM #ethics

2025-08-27 13:03:49 UTC

"...Brian Smith (1996) makes a similar point when he speaks of "inscription errors": inscribing one's discourse into an artifact and then turning around and "discovering" it there. The hidden connections between artifacts and language are particularly significant in the case of another large category of artifacts, namely computers. The design of a computer begins with formalization – an intensive and highly skilled type of work on language."
https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/practical.html
#philosophy #computers

2025-08-27 08:42:40 UTC

"Philip Agre, a computer scientist turned humanities professor, was prescient about many of the ways technology would impact the world" (2021)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/12/philip-agre-ai-disappeared/
#philosophy #technology

2025-07-28 07:10:26 UTC

"Experiencing like breathing is a rhythm of intakings and outgivings. Their succession is punctuated and made a rhythm by the existence of intervals, periods in which one phase is ceasing and the other is inchoate and preparing."
#pragmatism #philosophy #dewey
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/an-experience.htm

2025-07-27 19:52:08 UTC

Tom Lehrer has died. Also, he has released all of his songs into the public domain (before dying).
So download sheet music and perform them at family gatherings and other appropriate events: https://tomlehrersongs.com/
(or just listen to the mp3s)
#music #freeculture #tomlehrer

2025-07-27 16:34:40 UTC

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14 pages is impressive.
Interestingly, c't enshittified their illustrations by moving to AI images.

2025-07-25 20:37:53 UTC

Smalltalk might not be used a lot today, but it had a big impact on programming languages, development methods and interface design.
Read more about smalltalk (as seen in 1981) in the Byte Magazine’s special issue on Smalltalk 80 (or just admire the grotesque amount of advertisements for sooo many products)
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08/mode/2up
#smalltalk #UX #history

2025-05-18 17:00:56 UTC

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Holes
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/holes/
#Philosophy

2025-01-30 18:39:32 UTC

"The Sad Bastard Cookbook – Food You Can Make So You Don't Die": https://traumbooks.itch.io/the-sad-bastard-cookbook
Minimal effort cooking for times of depression and exhaustion. If you know you have these phases, its best to read before it fully kicks in, so you do not need to spend spoons finding a recipe that works.
#depression #recipes

2025-01-17 16:07:05 UTC

One of the better ways I found to solve programming problems is writing the high level code as if I have all the other parts already in place.
It is a bit like TDD or Tracer Bullet dev, but I don't write any runing code until I feel fine with the phantasy-code I have written (but then I can continue with tests and tracer bullet mocks)

2025-01-06 21:29:35 UTC

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Never tried it myself, but tone.js seems to be able to do just that (probably wrapping the web audio api)

2024-11-20 14:11:37 UTC

More Dewey, angry: “When we think of the docility of the young we first think of the stocks of information adults wish to impose and the ways of acting they want to reproduce. Then we think of the insolent coercions, the insinuating briberies, the pedagogic solemnities by which the freshness of youth can be faded and its vivid curiosities dulled.“ (Human Nature and Conduct, p47)
#education #philosophy

2024-11-18 19:48:19 UTC

Dewey’s »Human Nature and Conduct « (1922) at Standard eBook: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/john-dewey/human-nature-and-conduct
#pragmatism #philosophy

2024-11-10 09:51:53 UTC

Neat summary of what John Dewey understands as "habit" by @npub18sm…d5q0
https://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2012/04/dewey-on-habits.html

2024-10-01 15:28:40 UTC

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> JavaScript handling Array
> holes inconsistently
> is one more reason
> to avoid them.
does this mean: "avoid native arrays" (in favor of set or custom iterable type)
or "avoid arrays with holes" (in favor of consecutively filled arrays)?

2024-08-11 12:28:14 UTC

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you might enjoy Becker's "Creativity is not a Scarce Commodity"
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0002764217734277
https://hci.social/@simulo/112943378416138719

2024-06-18 10:57:46 UTC

The ACM has a list of common terms to avoid in writing in and about computing with a brief mention, a sentence of explaination and a list of alternatives.
https://www.acm.org/diversity-inclusion/words-matter