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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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  • 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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                        • dec23k@mastodon.ieD This user is from outside of this forum
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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

                                tripleman@mastodon.socialT This user is from outside of this forum
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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

                                  hackerfriendly@mas.toH This user is from outside of this forum
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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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                                      • 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 This is a plot diagram of the movie Looper. It did not end well for Timn.

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                                        • mark@mastodon.fixermark.comM This user is from outside of this forum
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                                          @nygl @thomasfuchs My favorite part of software engineering is when I go "it's morgen time" and then morge all those bug fixes back into develop.

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