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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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@Wolven

Excellent. I think this is the way to go as it is likely such tools will be used in the workplace. Our role as educators should be one that encourages our students to examine and think critically about these tools rather than pretend they don't exist.

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

@fil @observablehq That's great. It was lack of geo marks that was the main barrier to using Plot (and Observable) in my teaching. Look forward to experimenting with it when it's released.

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.

@janiczek Being selfish, I'd like to see you use Elm again as I learn so much from your coding approach that helps me with my own Elm programming.
@maarten @scott Ah yes. Just seen Scott's Birdsite post from Jan 23 2018.
@maarten It's weird, I was wondering the same thing (we seem to have set up our accounts within a day of each other in Jan 2018). No birdsite scares then that I recall and no vis/geo conference either.
@moritz Perhaps it was just an elaborate means of stress-testing the four colour map theorem.
@BethanyBlack He must be pretty smart as he said he wanted half the birdsite income to come from blue tick subscriptions, and the way advertisers are fleeing, he should get there pretty quickly.