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  3. When I was in my early twenties I read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information from Tufte and agonized over making charts great for users.

When I was in my early twenties I read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information from Tufte and agonized over making charts great for users.

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  • thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioT thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

    When I was in my early twenties I read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information from Tufte and agonized over making charts great for users.

    These days, Microsoft releases graphs like this

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    @thomasfuchs @edeverett Best diagram to explain “continvoucly morging” IMHO

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    • thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioT thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

      When I was in my early twenties I read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information from Tufte and agonized over making charts great for users.

      These days, Microsoft releases graphs like this

      groupnebula563@mastodon.socialG This user is from outside of this forum
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      @thomasfuchs you know what this reminds me of? i collect random bootleg items and often times they use flavor text stolen from other things, and then retyped manually by people who don't speak english. so you end up with shit like this:

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      • groupnebula563@mastodon.socialG groupnebula563@mastodon.social

        @thomasfuchs you know what this reminds me of? i collect random bootleg items and often times they use flavor text stolen from other things, and then retyped manually by people who don't speak english. so you end up with shit like this:

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        @thomasfuchs this is the best example i could find online, but i'm sure i could pull something out of my collection that's *far* worse

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        • thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioT thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

          When I was in my early twenties I read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information from Tufte and agonized over making charts great for users.

          These days, Microsoft releases graphs like this

          jeeger@mastodon.socialJ This user is from outside of this forum
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          @thomasfuchs "The Dyslexia of Graphics"

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          • thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioT thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

            When I was in my early twenties I read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information from Tufte and agonized over making charts great for users.

            These days, Microsoft releases graphs like this

            floe@hci.socialF This user is from outside of this forum
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            @thomasfuchs $ alias morge="git merge"

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            • thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioT thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

              When I was in my early twenties I read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information from Tufte and agonized over making charts great for users.

              These days, Microsoft releases graphs like this

              venite@mastodon.nlV This user is from outside of this forum
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              @thomasfuchs poor Tim

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              • thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioT thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

                When I was in my early twenties I read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information from Tufte and agonized over making charts great for users.

                These days, Microsoft releases graphs like this

                doragasu@mastodon.sdf.orgD This user is from outside of this forum
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                @thomasfuchs And Nadella wants us to stop calling this slop 🤷‍♂️

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                • thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioT thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

                  Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/introduction-to-github/3-components-of-github-flow

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                  @thomasfuchs They fixed the image but IA caught it.

                  Link Preview Image
                  Components of the GitHub flow - Training

                  Learn to use the components of the GitHub flow

                  favicon

                  (web.archive.org)

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                  • thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioT thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

                    Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/introduction-to-github/3-components-of-github-flow

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                    @thomasfuchs
                    Looks like they've fixed it?

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                      @nygl @thomasfuchs you need to do it going backwards in Tinm

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                      • colincornaby@mastodon.socialC colincornaby@mastodon.social

                        @thomasfuchs did they just take the original (https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/) and run it through an image generator?

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                        @colincornaby @thomasfuchs I was thinking ai and with this it definitely makes sense. Plus this is likely copyright violation!

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                        • theogrin@chaosfem.twT theogrin@chaosfem.tw

                          @nygl @thomasfuchs

                          Well, first you need two bottles of industrial lube, a goose, and a bag of pretzels.

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                          @theogrin @nygl @thomasfuchs https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xRIRzZ1iPII

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                          • riffraff@mastodon.socialR riffraff@mastodon.social

                            @nygl @thomasfuchs

                            I think it's a haiku and they wanted to stretch the sillable count so they made up a word. It's a mood thing, a-la jabberwocky.

                            Bugfix from rel, branch

                            Continvoucly morged back

                            into development

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                            @riffraff @nygl @thomasfuchs

                            All jokes aside continvouclious development is all the rage these days.

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                              @nygl @thomasfuchs
                              TIRED: covfefe
                              WIRED: continvoucly

                              #microslop

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                              • groupnebula563@mastodon.socialG groupnebula563@mastodon.social

                                @thomasfuchs you know what this reminds me of? i collect random bootleg items and often times they use flavor text stolen from other things, and then retyped manually by people who don't speak english. so you end up with shit like this:

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                                @GroupNebula563 @thomasfuchs Ahh yes, the Four Stooges of Britain.

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                                • thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioT thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

                                  When I was in my early twenties I read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information from Tufte and agonized over making charts great for users.

                                  These days, Microsoft releases graphs like this

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                                  @thomasfuchs looks suspiciously similar to this https://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/git-flow/

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                                  • thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioT thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

                                    When I was in my early twenties I read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information from Tufte and agonized over making charts great for users.

                                    These days, Microsoft releases graphs like this

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                                    @thomasfuchs You're not wrong about this but, I mean, it's Microsoft.

                                    Stuff that looks like this is their jam.

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                                    • thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioT thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

                                      When I was in my early twenties I read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information from Tufte and agonized over making charts great for users.

                                      These days, Microsoft releases graphs like this

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                                      @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io Bad OCR / image generation fail. It's clearly the git flow method. I think they were trying to morge this: https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/

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                                      • dec23k@mastodon.ieD dec23k@mastodon.ie

                                        @nygl @thomasfuchs
                                        TIRED: covfefe
                                        WIRED: continvoucly

                                        #microslop

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                                        @dec23k @nygl @thomasfuchs 🤣

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                                        • mtnrbq65@social.vivaldi.netM mtnrbq65@social.vivaldi.net

                                          @thomasfuchs

                                          I'm going to be morging my changes back to the develop branch from now on!

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                                          @mtnrbq65 @thomasfuchs

                                          ... but will you do it continvoucly?

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