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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

    katana@mas.toK This user is from outside of this forum
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    @thomasfuchs appears to have been silently replaced within the last ~10 minutes, i just opened the page again to grab a screenshot and there's a new diagram where that one was

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    • gunstick@mastodon.opencloud.luG gunstick@mastodon.opencloud.lu

      @elithebearded @lmorchard @thomasfuchs from rnicrosoft we learned that his name is Tirm

      ariels@hachyderm.ioA This user is from outside of this forum
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      @gunstick @elithebearded @lmorchard @thomasfuchs I believe it was Dorian Gray who invented the "timn-sequence diagram" we all use today.
      #DorianGray #timn #uml

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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

        mtnrbq65@social.vivaldi.netM This user is from outside of this forum
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        @thomasfuchs

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

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        • ariels@hachyderm.ioA ariels@hachyderm.io

          @gunstick @elithebearded @lmorchard @thomasfuchs I believe it was Dorian Gray who invented the "timn-sequence diagram" we all use today.
          #DorianGray #timn #uml

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          @gunstick @elithebearded @lmorchard @thomasfuchs
          Great, now because of you lot they deleted timn and the world will never learn. The irony of changing the docs about versioning flows without documenting the change is delicious. Almost as delicious as the fact that archive.org exists.
          To save you the time: https://web.archive.org/web/20260217061031/https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/introduction-to-github/3-components-of-github-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

            pikesley@mastodon.me.ukP This user is from outside of this forum
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            @thomasfuchs

            "What do you call yourselves?"
            "The Aristocrats"

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            • katana@mas.toK katana@mas.to

              @thomasfuchs appears to have been silently replaced within the last ~10 minutes, i just opened the page again to grab a screenshot and there's a new diagram where that one was

              lapo@f.lapo.itL This user is from outside of this forum
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              @thomasfuchs @katana Which is more nice, but also completely devoid of details. 🤣
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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

                landetannien@mastodonsweden.seL This user is from outside of this forum
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                @thomasfuchs Does the existence of pictures like this indicate how most people never try to read and understand charts?

                When this exists, they will never learn that it's worth making the effort 😞

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                • thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioT thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

                  @bplein If you're lost, you can look and you will find me
                  Timn after Timn

                  d1@autistics.lifeD This user is from outside of this forum
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                  @thomasfuchs @bplein There should be a passionate Karaoke over this

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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

                    oisin@mastodon.ieO This user is from outside of this forum
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                    @thomasfuchs what the actual fuck is that! rhetorical question of course, we all know what it is, it is a pile of crap.

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                    • h_offen@nrw.socialH h_offen@nrw.social

                      @thomasfuchs first time I committed the feedback form over there. Like really, wtf‽ Hopefully it will be read by an actual person not another stupid micro$lop AI agent.

                      galaxis@mastodon.infra.deG This user is from outside of this forum
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                      @h_offen @thomasfuchs It looks like they replaced that graph at least (with something that has no words at all).

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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

                        rightsprung@c.imR This user is from outside of this forum
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                        @thomasfuchs

                        Omg i was so confused until I read the alt-text

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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

                          drahardja@sfba.socialD This user is from outside of this forum
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                          @thomasfuchs They changed the image on the site, but it’s still available here: https://web.archive.org/web/20260216165612/https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/introduction-to-github/3-components-of-github-flow

                          I find this absolutely insulting. The fact that Microsoft deems it appropriate to publish this utter slop tells me volumes about what they think of their readers.

                          It’s also heartbreaking. I learned so much from learn.microsoft.com way back when.

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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

                            vogelchr@chaos.socialV This user is from outside of this forum
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                            @thomasfuchs The “Time”(?) axis is labelled “Tiꦟ”…?

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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

                              fabienmarry@mastodon.socialF This user is from outside of this forum
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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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