Notices by Máirín Duffy 🙋 (mairin@mastodon.social)

Do developers find 'how to do UX stuff' talks helpful / useful?

i think my laptop knows im betraying it, the amount of fail in the hours since i put the new one on order is astounding

@postroutine
ive found that when onboarding new floss contributors, theres a lot less friction with matrix. they can use matrix.org, no diy, nice web client reqs no install, cross platform mobile client lets non full time volunteers keep up...

jabber in my exp takes too much explanation and client config, i lose them
@catonano @vascorsd @clacke

i believe in climate change but its still shocking when your office is closed bc of the channel flooding into it and the city advises using upper floors of parking decks so your car doesnt flood... oh and my bulbs are so confused, snowdrops blooming weeks early... this is not normal

Here's the #inkscape article I wrote, it went live today:

7 awesome new Inkscape features and how to use them (link: http://red.ht/2r9bMPi) red.ht/2r9bMPi via @opensourceway by @mairin

does anybody want to take a free UX online class with me? we can focus on a free software project maybe for the course project? check it out https://www.plusacumen.org/courses/introduction-human-centered-design

twitter == shitter

im in a mommy group where a mom asked for advice about an elementary school kids who made suicidal statements, and someone suggested a chiropractor and probiotics.... 😲

my husband is playing w google home on his pixel 2 in the car. he asked it to play jazz. worked well, queued up a nice playlist in google play music. impressive.

after a few songs, it suddenly started playing some kind of story about a strangler who murdered women. No kidding. With our small kids in the car - not ok.

So he then asked it for relaxing music. It complained and then played loud heavy metal while displaying an up$ell screen.

#wtaf #googlesux

NYT just published opinion written by Fusion GPS:
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/opinion/republicans-investigation-fusion-gps.html

A lot of new info being release here, not good for NK agitator orange man.

Turns out LinuxJournal isn't dead!

http://m.linuxjournal.com/content/happy-new-year-linux-journal-alive