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Still working on dédédé [1] - it's a simple web-based platform to share the "good, bad, and why"s of urban spaces. We're slowly adding functionalities and crushing bugs, an iOS app is in the pipeline too!

[1] https://dedede.de/en

Thanks so much, and super cool newsletter btw!

Not directly involved with for Cities, but they're friends of friends and we should have a chance to meet them very soon.

Did a Show HN about a month ago, but we're hard at work building dédédé [1] - it's a not-for-profit website that invites people to casually share the "good, bad, and why"s of urban spaces.

[1] https://dedede.de/en

We're based in Kyoto and the posts are heavily Japan-centric; we'd love to see posts from all over the world!

Haven't been to Chongqing in a while, but the vertical nature of the city is fascinating [1]. It's like they layered multiple cities on top of each other! Curious how that affects social interactions in daily life.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/CityPorn/comments/8kqwnf/chongqing_...

We have something similar here in Kyoto! But we're Japan so there's an actual anime [1] and a character relationship chart [2], both straight from the city government.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OInuZFHeQo

[2] https://www.city.kyoto.lg.jp/kotsu/cmsfiles/contents/0000215...

Speaking of computational knitting, I recently learned about "solid knitting" [1] which is awesome.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/2024/solid-knitting

A big Jacobs fan here, but I remember reading her book (The Death and Life of...) and also about Robert Moses and thinking "hmm both sides have a point" so she'd probably hate me if she was still alive.

I personally think she was a bit too trusting of the (cybernetics-adjacent?) idea of order spontaneously arising from chaos.

Tangential but the name is a pun - "kezuroukai" translates to "shall we shave?" in Japanese, but "kai" can also mean something like "gathering" or "community".

So like Gossip's Cafe? https://gossips.cafe

Thanks so much for checking out the website! I hear machiya are quickly disappearing in Kyoto (often turned into generic apartments) so it's great to hear your friend is keeping the old city alive.

Cool photos! My workplace is an old machiya [1] in Kyoto that's more than a hundred years old, so I kinda live like the people in these photos (not really of course - no konbini back then).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machiya

I wonder if it's possible to design a new formal language (something like lojban [1], with a grammar strictly based on formal logic) but with better UX so that it can be used by regular folks like me? Maybe combine something like Attempto [2] with a dedicated visual UI?

I would think a language like that could speed up knowledge base construction. Maybe it can also serve as a substitute for natural languages in some situations where we want our communication to be logically airtight.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempto_Controlled_English

On a separate note, I've always wondered how Cyc is pronounced. Is it "sike", or is it "see-why-see"?

I remember in junior high, we kept a pack of much smaller and cuter planarians [1] for a science class. We cut them up into pieces (sorry worms!) and they really do regenerate! Fascinating creatures.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugesia_japonica

We just did a Show HN last week [1], but we're building dédédé (https://dedede.de/en), a place to share the "good, bad, and why"s of urban spaces. Please check it out if you hadn't already!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43465740

I guess you're referring to this one? https://dedede.de/en/posts/CimzQqTYi4

FWIW that's a post I made myself - the German embassy in Tokyo put up a series of posters explaining some German words, and that's the image they chose for "schadenfreude".

I agree that is very true. We'll see if there are free (or very cheap) solutions we could use.

Thanks so much, we'll look into it!

OP here - just to let you know the signup form asks for an email address, but we're just using it as the user ID so a non-working address works fine.

EDIT: apart from one minor inconvenience, you won't be able to reset your password if you forget it

Huh I vaguely remember hearing that term somewhere... will read up on it, thanks!

Thanks, would love to see posts from outside Japan!

Perhaps it's just that data visualization has simply matured, and the field has converged on a narrow set of designs that are proven to work? The earlier, "experimental" examples given by the author are indeed beautiful, but I'm not really sure all the fancy animations help me grasp the underlying data.

Great reference but I wonder what the criteria for inclusion is here?

Wow nice collection! Reminds me of the early days of the web. Kinda throws away everything we've learned about accessibility but I guess that's beside the point.