“Vous avez trouvé votre bonheur? / Did you find your happiness?” asks the salesclerk at Picard. She was talking about dinner ingredients, but the Finn in me immediately started to think about how I indeed have found my happiness. It’s moments of beauty like these I love in Paris.

what’s your favorite instance of haptic nostalgia—the poignant memory of the physicality of an obsolete thing—like dialing a rotary phone, shifting gears in a manual transmission, opening a soda can with a pull ring?

Tuplajuhlat: täytän tänään 39 vuotta ja Nähdä maailma hiekanjyvässä ilmestyi kauppoihin. Kirja on tarinallinen ja toiveikas kertomus tietokoneita ympäröivistä ihmisistä, ideoista ja ilmiöistä. lindaliukas.com/maailmahiekanjyvassa.html

If anything, LLMs are the most patient help in solving networking issues. I also appreciate the tone here - a real, secure, beautiful website on AWS :D

“A City Playground, but make it about Computers” (Another lovely edition of Bryan Boyer’s Urban Technology newsletter, with an interview with Linda Liukas, about cities, code and playgrounds - and thus more besides) urbantechnology.substack.com/p/urban-tech...

Agile is child’s play at #ScanAgile25 @lindaliukas.bsky.social kicks us off by talking about playgrounds instead of pipelines! 1/n

I knew @chaimg.bsky.social's Building SimCity would be good, but I had no idea how much I would love the chapters that lead to the game. Doreen Gehry Nelson, history of cellular automata, chock-full of ideas that help me understand my own work:

Next Wednesday join me for a webinar to discuss careers as constellations, technology and creativity. ✨ A special event for girls, but open to all. 📅 February 26th, 2025 - from 18:30 to 19:30 CET 🔗 Register here: jaworldwide.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Experiments with very minuscule training data continue: I was trying to prep for an interview and asked a LLM to find patterns and themes I've discussed in my newsletter over the years. It couldn't do it without adding very generic thoughts.

Im dritten Teil 'Programmieren mit Scratch und Hello Ruby' @lindaliukas.bsky.social für die #Grundschule spielt Ruby mit ihren Freund*innen, die sie im ersten Buch kennenlernte, fangen. Wie die letzte Teile nach einer Vorlage von @appcamps.bsky.social. #OER #Medienbildung #blueLZ #fediLZ

That magical Internet feeling when you stumble upon someone's vast body of work and just go ahh. This time, it’s 眼底城事 (eyesonplace.net) and their incredible documentation of Taipei and beyond.

I've been a big fan of Bryan's weekly writings from building a degree program of future of cities, design and design education. Honoured to be included: urbantechnology.substack.com/p/urban-tech...

There is this special, polite-yet-rude command of the discussion Parisians have when running errands on the phone and I need it. (Listened to my landlord handle an electricity issue yesterday on the phone and felt _this_ should be a french podcast.)

Tactile learning, freedom & curiosity! This sounds like #Montessori learning method! "Knowledge happens not in a transfer but together. As much as the educator is there to teach, the child is also there to teach." - Linda Liukas #education #helloruby #computerscience

Video der PH Zürich: t1p.de/dko8m Curriculum zum Buch "Hello Ruby - Programmier dir deine Welt" des School District of San Francisco: t1p.de/fwi0q

Zum Buch gibt es verschiedene Ressourcen zum methodisch-didaktischen Einsatz im Unterricht auf helloruby.com und im Ted talk der Autorin (t1p.de/r2js0).

Wie die Autorin Linda Liukas, selbst Programmiererin, bietet die Hauptfigur Ruby hohes Identifikationspotenzial und spricht explizit Mädchen an, die in der Informatik noch unterrepräsentiert sind. Jedes Buch besteht aus Vorleseteil & Übungsteil mit thematisch passenden & fachlich fundierten Übungen.

Seit nun drei Jahren setze ich die Kinderbuchreihe Hello Ruby im Medien- und Informatikunterricht der Grundschule ein und kann sie weiter nur empfehlen.

Love this quote from @lindaliukas.bsky.social in her recent interview: “One of the choices I’m most proud of is that early on, I realized that what success looks like for me is freedom and curiosity and the ability to follow whatever path I take.”

I got to have a discussion on @thecreativeindependent.com with @rebeccahiscott.bsky.social on playgrounds, lineages, and only liking the sidequests. thecreativeindependent.com/people/autho...

I have been thinking about how to teach my kids computers more explicitly recently. I find the pedagogy of Hello Ruby and Linda Liukas compelling. Anyone else thinking about this problem too? I want to do more than "lets do scratch" or "lets program a robot". www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIeO...

I knew J.G Ballard was an author I would fall for and the first 40 pages of Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton are proving me right. If this is the non-fiction, can't wait for the fiction..

Next video of #btconf Berlin 2024 is public. This time it is the wonderful Linda Liukas with her talk “A Playground Worth a Thousand Programmes”. A lovely talk with which she opened the 2024 festival. youtu.be/ZbtRrdn8Hxk

French has overtaken the Swedish in my brain, which means recording voice overs in Swedish for an audio guide for the playground I've been designing was a task I kept postponing.. Thank you for the patience and coaching of LLMs finally got it done.

One of the things I like living in Paris is how visible museums and cultural institutes are on subways and streets - I find out about most exhibitions in the physical world. And the poster designs are gorgeous - here a selection from the museums run by the city of Paris.

Hi! I'm Linda, I'm a children's book author and illustrator. My work is about making computer science a tiny bit more whimsical and accessible for all kinds of learners. Here are a few examples: