Fabio Natali @fabionatali@mastodon.social

Some brilliant insights that, overall, are not far from my way of intending technology. Recommendations for some healthy tech minimalism and de-growth. A shift of paradigm where technology objectives get profoundly redefined. http://viznut.fi/texts-en/permacomputing.html

UX and over-simplified interfaces can make our technology more opaque. This complexity-hiding operation can ultimately hinder our understanding of technology and the politics/ethics behind it. "We need to know things better if we want to be better." https://ralphammer.com/make-me-think/

#TIL Sankey diagrams are named after a mechanical engineer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Henry_Phineas_Riall_Sankey
The attached image (from Wikipedia) is the first Sankey diagram, as published in "The Thermal Efficiency Of Steam Engines" (1898).

Just to be clear, it doesn't have to be a LaTeX template.

LaTeX would be great, as that's what I'd be using ultimately, but I'm perfectly fine with a general set of guidelines or design system.

Dear Lazy Fediverse,

Anyone knows of a design system [0] that is meant for text-based printed materials (eg a report) as opposed to websites, mobile apps, etc?

The ideal system should:
- work for printed reports that are mostly text-based
- come with a series of example templates

I suppose I'm looking for something along the lines of a Tufte [1] design guide?

- [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_system
- [1] https://tufte-latex.github.io/tufte-latex/

For all #Emacs users and all lispers in the room, but also for everyone interested in 30 years of CS history and programming language design, here's [0] a good long read on the evolution of Emacs #Lisp.

It must have been circulated widely already, but just in case you've missed it...

- [0] https://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~monnier/hopl-4-emacs-lisp.pdf

Random-typing and mistyping is how I developed most of my computer skills (lol).

A mistyped tmux key combo (prefix + t) gave me access to this nice console clock. :) <3

#til #LifeInAConsole