#affordances — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #affordances, aggregated by home.social.
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Turns out... there's a secret special hidden socket part flap under the main socket!
Can you see it?! I dunno, man - why do they make things complicated?!Anyway, the best way to learn about electric vehicles is to be Wrong On Threads.
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@mamund 🧵Social Software Affordances
Explaining Twitter in 2009 was *much* more fun
"It is a sense of place, not space, which makes it appropriate to dance at a Grateful Dead concert, but not at a Cambridge college high table; to be naked in the bedroom, but not in the street; and to sit at our windows, peering out, rather than at other people's windows, peering in. Place, not space, frames appropriate behaviour."
https://tractionsoftware.com/traction/permalink/Blog1014
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A clever affordance of card index filing cabinet drawers
Someone recently mentioned to me that the small, portable 1,000 index card capacity cardboard box with lid that they use as a zettelkasten felt more like it was for deep storage rather than daily use. Perhaps it's a result of the fact that this is how most people have been using these cheaper cardboard boxes for the last 30+ years? They said they'd prefer to have a drawer or a box with an attached lid. It dawns on me that I've never mentioned one of the great affordances of many of the […]https://boffosocko.com/2026/01/07/a-clever-affordance-of-card-index-filing-cabinet-drawers/
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Re: Affordances and Lean CSS
Stephen Margheim (fractaledmind) wrote Affordances: The Missing Layer in Frontend Architecture this month. This quick post is my reply to his great article. I hear the objection already: “Isn’t this just… semantic CSS classes? We tried that.” You’re right that we tried it. But “it didn’t work” deserves unpacking. I was indeed objecting that in my mind. But I was not thinking, "it didn't work." I was thinking, "and it has kept working for decades. Obviously the utility-only workflow described is terrible; it's why I refuse to choose Tailwind. How are affordances better than what's worked for a decade?" […]https://kerrick.blog/posts/2025/re-affordances-and-lean-css/
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Re: Affordances and Lean CSS
Stephen Margheim (fractaledmind) wrote Affordances: The Missing Layer in Frontend Architecture this month. This quick post is my reply to his great article. I hear the objection already: “Isn’t this just… semantic CSS classes? We tried that.” You’re right that we tried it. But “it didn’t work” deserves unpacking. I was indeed objecting that in my mind. But I was not thinking, "it didn't work." I was thinking, "and it has kept working for decades. Obviously the utility-only workflow described is terrible; it's why I refuse to choose Tailwind. How are affordances better than what's worked for a decade?" […]https://kerrick.blog/posts/2025/re-affordances-and-lean-css/
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Re: Affordances and Lean CSS
Stephen Margheim (fractaledmind) wrote Affordances: The Missing Layer in Frontend Architecture this month. This quick post is my reply to his great article. I hear the objection already: “Isn’t this just… semantic CSS classes? We tried that.” You’re right that we tried it. But “it didn’t work” deserves unpacking. I was indeed objecting that in my mind. But I was not thinking, "it didn't work." I was thinking, "and it has kept working for decades. Obviously the utility-only workflow described is terrible; it's why I refuse to choose Tailwind. How are affordances better than what's worked for a decade?" […]https://kerrick.blog/posts/2025/re-affordances-and-lean-css/
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Re: Affordances and Lean CSS
Stephen Margheim (fractaledmind) wrote Affordances: The Missing Layer in Frontend Architecture this month. This quick post is my reply to his great article. I hear the objection already: “Isn’t this just… semantic CSS classes? We tried that.” You’re right that we tried it. But “it didn’t work” deserves unpacking. I was indeed objecting that in my mind. But I was not thinking, "it didn't work." I was thinking, "and it has kept working for decades. Obviously the utility-only workflow described is terrible; it's why I refuse to choose Tailwind. How are affordances better than what's worked for a decade?" […]https://kerrick.blog/posts/2025/re-affordances-and-lean-css/
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#CfP THE IMAGINATIVE LANDSCAPE OF AI – VISIONS, POSITIONS, CONFLICTS
❓ What are the #future #visions and #imaginaries of #communications, #society, and social change in diverse #global contexts in relation to #AI, #AGI and #ComAI?
❓ Which novel #ideological positions have emerged around the specific #affordances and #dilemmas of AI?
📣 We are looking for submissions for a Special Section of the International Journal of Communication addressing questions like these:
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Programming Affordances That Invite Mistakes
https://thetechenabler.substack.com/p/programming-affordance-when-a-languages
#HackerNews #Programming #Affordances #Mistakes #SoftwareDevelopment #CodingBestPractices #TechInsights
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Look at all those #UI #Affordances - textured resize corners, always-on scrollbars that communicate the visible proportion, buttons that look like buttons, hierarchically inset menu items.
So. Fucking. Hot. #Unf https://botsin.space/@osxthemes/112813988100601573
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🔥⏲️ Fudge Sunday "One IDP piece at a time" A look at recent Internal Developer Platform (IDP) coverage, taxonomy, and industry trends.
#IDP #platformengineering #tooling #marketing #developerexperience #developercommunity #usercentereddesign #devx #serverless #idpaas #bestofbreed #constraints #affordances #design #softwareengineering #softwaredevelopement #newsletter #newsletters
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Georgina Born, cont. (3): "... while there is no necessary connection between #progressive or politicized #culture and these #SmallScale, entrepreneurial #PettyCapitalist interventions – and in that sense there is no deterministic relation there are, nonetheless, opportunities; they might be conceived as #affordances"
GB's #PettyCapitalism applies to #OpenSource #SocialMedia -- not #progressive apriori, crucial #affordances require further work to create an #AntiRacist space here.
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Georgina Born, cont. (3): "... while there is no necessary connection between #progressive or politicized #culture and these #SmallScale, entrepreneurial #PettyCapitalist interventions – and in that sense there is no deterministic relation there are, nonetheless, opportunities; they might be conceived as #affordances"
GB's #PettyCapitalism applies to #OpenSource #SocialMedia -- not #progressive apriori, crucial #affordances require further work to create an #AntiRacist space here.
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Anyone familiar with the idea that the #DorsalStream is #DirectPerception and the #VentralStream is #Constructivist ? Just came across a paper on it from 2002, and want to make sure it's not considered totally debunked before I read it. This is an area I've been trying to better understand lately
#PhilofMind #psychology #neuroscience #Gibson #EcologicalPsychology #constructivism #affordances
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#introduction post! My name is Sonia Roberts (she/her) and I'm a postdoc at Northeastern developing #knit sensors for #soft, fully knitted #robots. My PhD work was on #legged robots running around in the desert (ever gone for a beach run?). I use my robots to test ideas about #affordances and #DirectPerception. I have also done some #SciencePolicy and #TechnologyPolicy #policy work around algorithmic transparency and regulating the use of mobile sentries by law enforcement.
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#introduction post! My name is Sonia Roberts (she/her) and I'm a postdoc at Northeastern developing #knit sensors for #soft, fully knitted #robots. My PhD work was on #legged robots running around in the desert (ever gone for a beach run?). I use my robots to test ideas about #affordances and #DirectPerception. I have also done some #SciencePolicy and #TechnologyPolicy #policy work around algorithmic transparency and regulating the use of mobile sentries by law enforcement.