Jan R. Boehnke2d ago

The 2025 Trevor Levere Best Paper Prize goes to the team of the paper "The drop and the metric system: how an unruly unit survived revolutions"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00033790.2026.2636886

This is really great news and is for an excellent paper that I highly recommend reading!

Working myself in an area that has at best non-standard measurement units (at worst, some people would argue, is not measurement at all), I found this very interesting.

#Measurement #Psychometrics
@philosophy

Hacker News5d ago

Pretext: TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout

https://github.com/chenglou/pretext

#HackerNews #Pretext #TypeScript #library #multiline #text #measurement #layout #GitHub

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Mike K3LOE6d ago

Do casual #weather enthusiasts in more scientific countries use kilometers per hour or meters per second when discussing wind speed? Or setting your weather app preferences, as is my case.

I finally have my weather station on a proper mast!

#metric #wx #wind #imperial #measurement

Ryan WinklerMar 25

The Loudest Request Is Rarely the Most Important

Product teams drown in feedback: tickets, sales calls, NPS, stakeholder opinions. Without a scoring system, the loudest voice wins. Here's what replaces gut feeling.

🔗 Read more at ryanw.eu

Ryan WinklerMar 25

Stop Measuring Engagement, Start Measuring Task Success

High engagement in a product employees have to use doesn't mean good UX. It means no alternative. Here's how to pick HEART categories that matter.

🔗 Read more at ryanw.eu

Luigi de GuzmanMar 25

add "British Thermal Units" to the pile of "why the hell do we quote things in these bizarre and arbitrary measurements when we have joules and watts"

#SI #Measurement #Units

Business Excellence InstituteMar 25
#KPIs #Measurement #MembersInsights #Excellence #BusinessExcellence #BEX
Show threadmjMar 24
@srdfrench.bsky.social does a nice review here, fleshing-out the key concepts & points that Emily Adlam makes. "Measurement results […] become meaningful and useful for #empirical confirmation only in the context of […] a “model” of the #measurement process" #epistemology bsky.app/profile/malt...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w2lvfvgooagydunsj2dpxtnj/post/3mhqjxoi6y22p
N-gated Hacker NewsMar 23
🍺🔍 "Is it a pint?" A brave new world where measuring your #beer becomes the battle cry of the century! Join the Pint Patrol as they valiantly crusade for truth in glass sizes, one sip at a time. Soon, we'll need an app to determine if your coffee is a cup. 🍻🙄
https://isitapint.com/ #measurement #PintPatrol #truthinbeer #glasssizes #coffeeapp #HackerNews #ngated
IS IT A PINT?

An independent study measuring whether American bars actually pour a full pint. Most 'pint' glasses hold only 14 oz. Data, methods, and the Pint Patrol app.

InautiloMar 23

#Development #Introductions
Container Timing · A new API to measure web component performance https://ilo.im/16bf65

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#Metrics #Measurement #WebComponents #APIs #Polyfill #Chromium #Browsers #WebPerf #WebDev #Frontend

Container Timing: measuring web components performance

An introduction to Container Timing, a new web performance API that lets developers measure when complex components finish painting and shows how to use its native implementation now available behind a Chromium feature flag.