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All hail! The IOS26 survey for iPhone users.

I have updated my iPhone to iOS 26 and…
#quiz #ios26 #LoveItOrHateIt

You have no idea how much I love and appreciate _concrete_ helpful & constructive feedback like "put import statements in code snippets" compared to handwavy & obtuse comments like "the docs are pretty bad..." or "examples are all for wild or out there things but what I need are tutorials on the basics". None of the hundreds of example projects & snippets cover those, are you sure?!

Concrete feedback (like the former) actually helps kickstarting things and leads to improving the situation for other users/everyone! I.e. I've already started updating the code snippets in all doc strings across all 190 libraries and I'm going to push new releases in the next couple of days! Great! 🙏🚀

If people really want thi.ngs to improve, at the very least they need to report what exactly is wrong/weak with the docs (preferably with examples), or explain which "basics" should be focused on more... There's an issue tracker and discussion forum[1]. I've been repeatedly asking for feedback here too...

Going hand in hand with this, the survey[2] question "Have you ever contributed to any thi.ng project in any way?" has a big fat ZERO for the "documentation" answer choice. I don't know why it's soo very hard to even just entice people providing some constructive comments, if helping out in other ways is out of the question...

In general, preliminary feedback collected in the survey so far seems to indicate these projects really are like Marmite[3] — people either absolutely love it or hate it, with seemingly not much middle ground... Go figure! Maybe it's a sign of the times...

The result of this is a feeling of being stuck between a rock and a hard place. No matter how much energy (1000s of hours in the past 2 years alone) I've already been investing in providing/improving docs (>50k words in just the readme's), creating/updating docstrings, examples, snippets, diagrams & including links for further reading... it all just doesn't seem to register or is getting shrugged off as non-helpful and I truly don't know if spending even more time/energy/savings on any of this really even worth the effort anymore... Where is the bar for open source projects, esp. those not run be corporations?

[1] https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/discussions
[2] https://forms.gle/XacbSDEmQMPZg8197
[3] https://www.creativereview.co.uk/you-either-love-it-or-hate-it/

#ThingUmbrella #OpenSource #Documentation #Feedback #Survey #LoveItOrHateIt

You have no idea how much I love and appreciate _concrete_ helpful & constructive feedback like "put import statements in code snippets" compared to handwavy & obtuse comments like "the docs are pretty bad..." or "examples are all for wild or out there things but what I need are tutorials on the basics". None of the hundreds of example projects & snippets cover those, are you sure?!

Concrete feedback (like the former) actually helps kickstarting things and leads to improving the situation for other users/everyone! I.e. I've already started updating the code snippets in all doc strings across all 190 libraries and I'm going to push new releases in the next couple of days! Great! 🙏🚀

If people really want thi.ngs to improve, at the very least they need to report what exactly is wrong/weak with the docs (preferably with examples), or explain which "basics" should be focused on more... There's an issue tracker and discussion forum[1]. I've been repeatedly asking for feedback here too...

Going hand in hand with this, the survey[2] question "Have you ever contributed to any thi.ng project in any way?" has a big fat ZERO for the "documentation" answer choice. I don't know why it's soo very hard to even just entice people providing some constructive comments, if helping out in other ways is out of the question...

In general, preliminary feedback collected in the survey so far seems to indicate these projects really are like Marmite[3] — people either absolutely love it or hate it, with seemingly not much middle ground... Go figure! Maybe it's a sign of the times...

The result of this is a feeling of being stuck between a rock and a hard place. No matter how much energy (1000s of hours in the past 2 years alone) I've already been investing in providing/improving docs (>50k words in just the readme's), creating/updating docstrings, examples, snippets, diagrams & including links for further reading... it all just doesn't seem to register or is getting shrugged off as non-helpful and I truly don't know if spending even more time/energy/savings on any of this really even worth the effort anymore... Where is the bar for open source projects, esp. those not run be corporations?

[1] https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/discussions
[2] https://forms.gle/XacbSDEmQMPZg8197
[3] https://www.creativereview.co.uk/you-either-love-it-or-hate-it/

#ThingUmbrella #OpenSource #Documentation #Feedback #Survey #LoveItOrHateIt

In this session we heard from @peterrowlett, who thinks he might be related to the master of the mint (but maybe we all are!), as well as Alyssa Burlton, who discusses what makes the perfect Mathsjam presentation - will the later talks follow the advice given? @mikegibson2010 talks about how likely it is for a child to be named Susan, and the effects of "Marmativity". Fredrik and Ida showed their Rubik's Dice, and demonstrated a feat of mental arithmetic using it (find them on Instagram @sciencecircus) Finally in this session we heard from @sam_hartburn who talks about the scoring on Radio 2's morning music quiz, and discussed how fair (or otherwise) it is. You can find more information about the quiz at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5cS7cdpR9BbmZ5FVnl3hk0f/ten-to-the-top #mathsjam #maths #rubikscube #magic #tentothetop #ancestry #loveitorhateit

Heut kam wieder was aus England 😍 #loveitorhateit

#TIL #BritishSlang "#marmite" is basically our "#polarizing": ie. #LoveItOrHateIt; #notInBetween.

Ich muss zur Tanke, Bier kaufen ;-)

#HousemixByMikeHuckebein aka #DJSoulblade
#LoveItOrHateIt

Bis gleich.

https://www.mixcloud.com/DJSoulblade/housemix-by-mike-huckebein-love-it-or-hate-it/