Jan 2, 2020One book I’ve finished and thirty-six I started reading in 2019FINISHED: Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan, Lewis H. Lapham (Introduction) Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World by Lawrence Lessig5 min read5 min read
Sep 4, 2018Some highlights from “Amusing Ourselves to Death” by Neil PostmanAmusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985) is a book by Neil Postman. …Politics13 min readPolitics13 min read
Aug 7, 2018Books 2018How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method by George PólyaPolitics4 min readPolitics4 min read
Dec 9, 2017“Shanzhai is the Spirit”My fascination by Shenzhen makers culture started, I heard bunnie talking on Open Hardware Development @FOSSASIA ’15 in Singapore. If you are into hardware, open source and open source manufacturing, Shenzhen is the place to be/visit. …Makers4 min readMakers4 min read
Mar 19, 2017Apache way and my fist ApacheConIn November last year I attended my first ApacheCon in Sevilla, Spain. The event was co-hosted with Apache Big Data and run entire week from Monday to Friday. Apache community is extremely opening for non-technical contributions and talks, and despite all the worries to be the only one UX speaker…Open Source2 min readOpen Source2 min read
Oct 16, 2016Books 2016will be updated until 2017 PROFESSIONAL Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management by Scott Berkun Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Jake Knapp (Goodreads Author), John Zeratsky (Goodreads Author), Brad Kowitz Designing Together: The Collaboration and Conflict Management Handbook for Creative…Design1 min readDesign1 min read
Mar 25, 2016Academic Research on Usability in FOSSWhile preparing for my talk at FOSSASIA’16 I did a review of academic research on usability work and open source culture. I’ve put the most interesting papers on the timeline below. A full list can be find in victoria-bondarchuk/List-of-Academic-Research-on-Usability-in-FOSS on GitHub.Open Source1 min readOpen Source1 min read
Feb 21, 2016First Paper We Love in SeoulThis February we hosted our first event of Papers We Love in Seoul. If you’re unfamiliar with the idea, here is a link to this amazing community. I always wanted to do something UX related at Seoul Tech Society, but couldn’t settle on the format. When @seoul_engineer suggested to open…UX2 min readUX2 min read
Dec 6, 2015Books 2015Forgotten Kingdom by Peter Goullart Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager by Michael Lopp The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks Jr. The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing’s…Books1 min readBooks1 min read