Colin Joy

@cjoy
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Designing cloudy stuff at a place famous for ABAP and UX
Die Grünen in BW wollen länger am Verbrenner festhalten? Bitte was? #GrueneBW #CemÖzdemir #LandtagswahlBW #wahlomat

Struggling to resize windows on macOS Tahoe? Here’s why.

https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/

New blog post! A close look at Tahoe menu icons. With 109 illustrations! https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/
It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons

Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe

tonsky.me
US issues sanctions / visa bans on several EU (former) officials & supporters of EU acts. Amazing stuff, check out the language used. But by all means let us run our governments & vital services on US cloud providers! (let us NOT, to be clear).
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/12/announcement-of-actions-to-combat-the-global-censorship-industrial-complex/
Haven’t studied this yet but it could be interesting. The devil is in the details of course: https://commission.europa.eu/news-and-media/news/commission-moves-forward-cloud-sovereignty-eur-180-million-tender-2025-10-10_en
The Commission moves forward on cloud sovereignty with a EUR 180 million tender

As part of its efforts to strengthen its cloud sovereignty, the European Commission is procuring up to EUR 180 million of sovereign cloud services.

European Commission

・ 12 x 12 Pattern Module ・

👤 1622/1674
🏛️ National Azulejo Museum ・ Lisbon, Portugal

Known to have been applied between the 1620s and the 1670s, this pattern is constituted by 12x12 modules, thus requiring a total of 144 azulejos. This is the largest pattern designed in the world and is currently called "Marvila pattern", becau(...)
#portugal #museum #azulejo

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/12-x-12-pattern-module/HAH9D7AzfqA0Sw

This should have been big news!

Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
ANR 🇫🇷
Only two of them issued press releases in English:
https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/news/detail/joint-commitment-to-strengthening-open-research-europe
https://www.fccn.pt/en/atualidade/fct-assina-declaracao-fortalecimento-open-research-europe-ore/
and one more, NWO from 🇳🇱 considers joining:
https://www.nwo.nl/en/news/nwo-endorses-joining-open-access-platform-open-research-europe-ore
Why is this BIG? 1/4
#openscience #openaccess

Joint Commitment to Strengthening Open Research Europe

In December 2024, ten leading European research funding organizations, including the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), signed a Statement of Intent to jointly support and further develop the Open Research Europe (ORE) publication platform.

Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
The star trek future we have at home:

So, jetzt ist es raus: Die Parlamentsrevue ist für den Grimme Online Award nominiert!!!
(Ihr habt keine Vorstellung, wie schwer das war, so lange die Klappe zu halten 😂)

Ich fühle mich sehr geehrt, dass ich es unter all den Vorschlägen auf die Shortlist geschafft hab.

Wenn ihr kurz Zeit habt, würde ich mich noch mehr freuen, wenn ihr hier mir beim Publikumsvoting eine Stimme geben könntet:
https://w1.grimme-online-award.de/goa/voting/ext_voting.pl

Tausend Dank für eure Unterstützung ❤️

Grimme Online Award - Voting zum Publikumspreis

That's really all it takes!