Author: Birgit Pauli-Haack

  • #Twitterfun: None of them are doctors.

    They have like, three or four kids? Very nice. None of them are doctors.” – my mom, updating me on a family whom she insists I met once in 1983. Anil Dash posted on twitter: Ironically, when my mother describes people’s children (including her own) as non-doctors, she delivers the news as if it were…

  • A Study of News Sites' Front Pages

    Articles created on the website of a news company, will bubble up to the front-page. What are the visuals featured for those articles? Here are five examples of today’s front pages: What can we do with headshot featured image? Here are a few examples

  • 44 Songs of Obama’s summer 2019

    On August 24, 2019, this tweet happened: On the following pages you can listen to the song, read the lyrics, find more music by the same musicians and learn more about the artists. If you want to pick go +1 on the page, meaning if you want to learn more about Lauryn Hill (12) go…

  • JSX: Ignoring Case-Sensitivity Sends Browser Into Endless Loop

    I am about half-way through Zac Gordon’s book React Explained. I read most of it on the plane back from Europe and didn’t do the exercises. A couple weeks ago I finally circled back to the exercises. For the JSX exercise #3 we are asked to create a Header component with a header element and…

  • 360° Tour Krypta in the Temple de Saint Sava, Belgrade, Serbia

    360° Tour Krypta in the Temple de Saint Sava, Belgrade, Serbia

    In June, we visited Belgrade, Serbia and experimented with 360° photography. This is a photo of the Krypta of the Temple. The main church space wasn’t finished yet, except for the mosaic in the rotunda. Christian also made a 360° image. It always looks funny when people using their phone to create these image. They…

  • What was a niche discussion twenty-two years ago, goes mainstream. Moral Panic.

    A moral panic is a widespread fear, most often an irrational one, that someone or something is a threat to the values, safety, and interests of a community or society at large. Typically, a moral panic is perpetuated by news media, fueled by politicians, and often results in the passage of new laws or policies…