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savolai

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What I’ve come to understand about myself is that I am a multidisciplinary bridge builder.

I thrive both in high perspective and in a place of deep focus. My practices boil down to building understanding between realities. And at best, presence.

I LOVE usability testing and conceptual modeling and getting people started with these.

Learning and observing people to understand what makes them tick is at the core of all I do. I want to enable people on the mission to do their best work. I have a masters in computer science & cognitive psychology of UX, and love to do UI work that is rooted in real human needs.

I have grounded my work in commercial applications as well as practicing UX work and software implementation in open source communities. I feel ethics must be at the core of what UX pros do, and I am well versed in having nuanced conversations to keep teams aligned.

A qualified vocational teacher and connection & body awareness coach, I am also available to support people on their path to what’s real and expansive for them.

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The high point of my life on HN: Regular Expressions You Can Read https://savolai.net/case-studies/regular-expressions-you-can-read/ HN discussion ranking: http://hnrankings.info/11700725/

User Experience Design in Open Source: Inviting the Users https://savolai.net/ux/user-experience-design-in-open-source-inviting-the-users/

Site: https://savolai.net/

Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/users/198955/

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savolai··on GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
It has the potential to be that. Not sure this is it yet though or if openai's intention is even eventually to do something as useful. I think parent comment might mean what is presented in the links at https://worrydream.com/ in years 2011-2013.
savolai··on A 100x faster* alternative to homebrew
Very zero
savolai··on Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend
Security, as outlined by OP?
savolai··on Windows 11½
I did not compare those. To get a shot at getting a partition on my machine, it needs to show promise in vm first.

MacOS comes ready installed, like it or not.

Just stating what needs to be done to gain user trust. I am talking from user perspective: i am not judging linux or its makers.

If it doesn’t work for some purpose on something, set the expectations accordingly on e.g distro website before letting me down after I already invested my time in it. That is okay too.

savolai··on Windows 11½
Thanks for the advice. To me, the responses here reflect well the reason the scattered linux landscape is so hard to approach for the uninitiated tho.

There could be reasonable vm conf defaults already defined for something as well defined as an m1 mbp.

Yes, I considered asahi. Decided to try vms first. The number of hurdles did not increase my confidence to try to set up a dualboot.

It also reflects that llm help is apparently useless in this area, if one is to trust the responses here. Does the landscape move too fast for them?

savolai··on Windows 11½
I tried installing fedora on mac m1 vmware recently, and enabled 3d acceleration separately. Llm seemed to think 3d acceleration would work better on fusion.

Performance sucked bad, particularly on games. Tux games were unplayable. I am confused what the bubble is on hn or on my end. Before that, on utm I think i tried ubuntu. After decades, linux is still hard to try out.

savolai··on A Roman Name for Software
I remember that, around 2010 perhaps, I had a discussion with a friend, working at a local then hip, now corporatized software house. My passion was usability testing; I thought at the time it was my "passion for people".

They seemed to think most projects they sell cannot afford usability testing. Which to me seemed weird; after all, casual hallway testing a la joel spolsky really isn't resource intensive.

Reading this what I was more passionate actually developer's grip on reality. Having experienced user testing open my eyes several times, I had a keen sense of how we can delude ourselves into images of what our users ought to be - and in turn, what their domains are about in our heads.

savolai··on Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
To me, this suddenly turned the discussion into a fascinating exploration and demonstration of different standards of truthfulness in marketing.
savolai··on Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts
Guess: https://www.madskristensen.net/blog/convert-html-tags-to-low...
savolai··on I wanna live an NPC life
As you’re not providing any quantifiable argument either, it seems to me this discussion doesn’t need to continue.
savolai··on I wanna live an NPC life
Though not ancient taoist, Finland has a strong shame culture so we also have lots of popular lyrics that seem to align with the theme. Another cultural pointer is Hal Sirowitz' Mother said.

* Sadetanssi: Kuvasi kaltainen *

you said, little boy the wheel of the world is best pedalled so softly no one even notices

and beware the day you look behind when speed no longer notices the pedal pressed to the floor

you said, that boy don’t let him loose he doesn’t instantly know which way he should be going

if somewhere comes the sound of good behaviour breaking if somewhere they are having fun without your permission

you wear your shame with pride when you look me in the face I am made in your image

you’d rather be ordinary than stunted in your growth well-behaved rather than torn inside

when you open the cupboard in the morning the skeletons are laughing you don’t know a single one but still they laugh at you

when at night you look into the mirror and see my face I smile at you softly and turn my back

I’ve made every mistake you only dream of making I am made in your image

savolai··on I wanna live an NPC life
none of them specifically, but something they share on a different level.

life is measured by individual achievement, self-actualization through work, being ordinary is failure as you're supposed to present and perform. none of those cultures differ much on that, though maybe on how much you're allowed to express preferences vs. that.

why does this thread read as escapism to so many? because it's a cultural norm people are not aware of, and it gets violated.

savolai··on I wanna live an NPC life
It appears obvious to me that there is a hegemonic world order that is more culturally western oriented that has driven globalisation. Your mileage appears to vary.
savolai··on I wanna live an NPC life
These are the cultural projections previous western generations were built upon. My reading is that that is what’s happening, that is why they are so predominant.
savolai··on I wanna live an NPC life
The link i posted is actually the full movie. yt-dlp?
savolai··on I wanna live an NPC life
Guessing, but i suppose he might be referring to the implied-as-given duty ethics tone of the parent post, that easily comes across as an obligation to be blindly guided externally by norms.
savolai··on I wanna live an NPC life
Not sure at all you actually read the piece. Your responses about having a job or inconvenience or expectation seem entirely unrelated.

The text does not, for instance, encourage not having a job. It also does not encourage being nothing at all. Being nothing special is quite different.

Recommended movie: perfect days https://youtu.be/wqUT9hQd1XM?is=v1x85FdKOK_zfu60

savolai··on Show HN: A Modern GUI Library for Ada: CSS Styling, XML UI, SDL3
Came here to comment on it being fascinating how xml has survived here and thrives on this front. Even in react syntax, in some sense. Natural fit?

As happy user of qt desktop framework, not sure in what sense it’s dated.

Not sure how qwt relates to this tho? https://qwt.sourceforge.io/

Making coherent ux with it still seems much easier than in qml, it has the right constraints and visual editing it is reasonably lightweight, unlike qml studio. Of course it has its flaws too but UX wise it is still hard to find an equally mature cross platform toolkit.

savolai··on Major oil slick washes up on Iran coast after Hormuz ship strike
Also see: black and white or false dilemma fallacy
savolai··on Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland
Does this make the vegetarians not exist?
savolai··on HMD Fusion easy to repair smartphone
I wasn't aware others besides fairphone do repairable phones! Any experiences of this?
savolai··on I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned
the irony is that the scratch your own itch mindset also explains why indieweb struggles to grow.

there’s nothing wrong with building software for yourself. but if your stated goal is giving everyone ownership over their online identity, then usability stops being marketing and starts becoming part of the mission.

good ux isn’t selling out. it’s removing accidental complexity so more people can benefit from the ideas. otherwise you’re not building an alternative to big platforms, you’re building a club for people who enjoy configuring web servers.

savolai··on Better Images of AI
https://postimg.cc/rDyz9SXL
savolai··on Better Images of AI
Clippy on steroids https://postimg.cc/rDyz9SXL
savolai··on State Attorneys General Are Investigating OpenAI
This is actually relevant, thanks for sharing about that functionality.
savolai··on I bypassed AWS API Gateway auth with a trailing slash. Got $12K bounty
It's not really fair to criticise hosting choice, but this lead me down a rabbit hole.

Noticed that non-responsive blog layouts are rare these days. Most are from blogspot. So I took a look and realized that blogger nowadays actually supports responsive layouts, but apparently... they are not popular?

https://blogger.googleblog.com/2017/03/share-your-unique-sty...

savolai··on The User Is Visibly Frustrated
Fascinating. Projection/antropomorphism or actual human fawn-like survival mechanism trait-ish? It should be possible to test this empirically.
savolai··on Debian must ship reproducible packages
” If you are wondering why we are doing this at all, then hopefully the Reproducible Builds website will explain why this is useful.”

https://reproducible-builds.org/

Could you perhaps respond to the argumentation here?

savolai··on The Brainrot Industrial Complex
In the case of this article, the calling out also seems to be without merit.

From the about page: ” When I’m not writing code, I write prose, short and long, ranging from personal anecdotes in tech to philosophical musings on how technology shapes culture, society, and the individual self.”

savolai··on The Brainrot Industrial Complex
This names something valuable and frames it in an original way. It expressed caring for younger generations and encourages effort to meet the young with presence. It gives practical advice on how to practice attention. In present time this is enormously valuable.

I see it being flagged in realtime, please wake up HN.

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