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Professor of Visual Analytics with interests in visualization, computational thinking, design, active/natural travel and respectful political discussion.
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If' you like coding, or want to improve your coding skills, I'd thoroughly recommend #adventofcode

https://adventofcode.com

which started today. 25 daily programming challenges that start easy and get gradually tougher over the month.

This year I'm doing them in literate JavaScript via @observablehq

https://observablehq.com/collection/@jwolondon/advent-of-code-2022

Advent of Code 2025

I should clarify. I am not referring to obvious bad behaviour rules (racism, homophobia etc.). But more subtle ones, for example, here on vis.social, not showing AI generated images, that could legitimately vary between instances.

Ideally, when I see posts in my timeline, I'd like not to worry too much about checking the instance of the poster in order to know how best to reply.

I think perhaps my mental model of how people's timelines are fed is wrong.

I have a fediverse question:

Assume I am a member of instance X that has a rule "never mention Apples", and I follow someone from instance Y that has no such rule.

If I reply to someone from Y with some apple talk, who gets to see my response? Am I breaking X's rules or is it only people on Y and my followers who see it?

Following people from different instances each with different rules makes it hard to know what etiquette to adopt.

In case you haven't seen it yet, here's more information about this instance: https://vis.social/about/more

We're working on expanding and explaining more...please remember that until a few weeks ago, there were only about 12 active members of this instance. We now, at time of posting this, have more than 1,000 active members.

That's happening everywhere in the fediverse.

Long-timers are working on welcoming and guiding all the new arrivals/returners.

vis.social

vis.social is an open social platform for creative people, especially anyone in SciArt, SciComm, data, visualization, creative coding, and related arts and research. English is the common language of the instance.

Mastodon hosted on vis.social