@adamgreenfield 😞 I didn't realize he was still alive. I just read one of his books for the first time earlier this year. Hit and miss, but more hit than miss, and WOW when it did.

@ashah yeah it’s also pretty awesome on iOS too, I wonder why it still isn’t out of beta

PSA for Austrians and people living in Austria

Credit referencing agency CRIF probably has your name, address, and date of birth and uses this information to assign you a “score.” Banks, mobile phone providers, and others access this score. NOYB now started a class action. I already signed up and you can too:

https://crif.noyb.eu (also has english toggle in menu if it opens up in german)

#privacy #dataprotection #austria #gdpr

@merwanat blog post, definitely 😁 And if I don't make a game with it, I'll open-source it. It's too cool to not be used either by me or someone else.

@misty thanks for the bug report and as you've confirmed now fixed 👍

Here's one of the papers I'm reading behind these thoughts: Bilalić, M., McLeod, P., & Gobet, F. (2008). Why good thoughts block better ones: The mechanism of the pernicious Einstellung (set) effect. Cognition, 108(3), 652-661).

And of course, in The Psychology of Software Teams, I tackle a whole host of topics that can help us create those better collaboration environments! Not just good for the heart....also good for the problem solving! 😊

https://www.drcathicks.com/#book

#psychology

Luxury potato bear. Postcard from my collection, no date/info.

@nileane This looks promising: https://uplock.app

Today I changed it up a bit and tried to paint a moody Alberta summer sky with a storm and canola fields. 🇨🇦🫶

#watercolor #art #MastoArt

@cwebber ✊

Sometimes, prior experience, and the strong associations it creates for our minds when a *new* problem shares the same context as old problems, can push our minds toward reaching for familiar, suboptimal solutions and ignoring better ones.

And experts can get hit quite deeply with this bias, even in their own problem-solving domains. The familiarity of old successful solutions can actually block us from recognizing novel, unexpected solutions.

It seems intuitive that the more experience you have solving problems in a given domain, the better you'll be at pushing the boundaries of the solution space and finding novel paths forward.

But did you know there's a paradox hidden inside of the benefits of all that "prior experience?"

Meta’s $17 billion settlement with 52 state attorneys general doesn’t just affect teens. It requires age assurance for Facebook and Instagram users in nearly every state, and normalizes an invasive system that threatens anonymity online. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/metas-17-billion-settlement-bad-deal-teens-and-all-social-media-users

@grimalkina

Very nice writing. Thank you! In my last blog post I included references to "The Firmbyte Gap" and related sources I found through that article. It also mentions how experts can easily overlook solutions because of biases and dogma that grows with their expertise in a particular field. It goes into how cross-pollination is a means to overcome that. I turned it into a whole section in my post..

https://coding.social/blog/fediverse-of-dreams/#cross-pollination

@torgo Glad I was already using Organic Maps

@nileane Awesome thank you! I think I'll pull the plug! I've seen a lot of positive comments on it. By chance, have you used the iOS app/testflight? i normally use e-mail on my phone.

If you're looking for a very robust dice roller, check this out. It's free. Also, some voices inside the app should sound fairly familiar. English male and English SuperVillain especially. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/deyesfree/id1551470604

Apple Maps follows Google in renaming Lake Ontario
https://www.theverge.com/tech/987784/apple-maps-lake-america-renaming?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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