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Ville Takanen @villetakanen.com · 02/08/2025

Olipa hyvin kirjoitettu, ajatuksia herättävä kirjoitus "Näemmekö sienissä uuden ajan tietokoneen? – Epätavallinen laskenta on tulevaisuutta" suomenkuvalehti.fi/paajutut/nae...

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Näemmekö sienissä uuden ajan tietokoneen? – Epätavallinen laskenta on tulevaisuutta

”Minusta tuntuu, että edessä on luonnon ja teknologian lähentyminen”, kirjoittaa Linda Liukas SK:n julkaisemassa kirjaotteessa.

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Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 07/11/2024

“Playgrounds are how we make spaces for people from all kinds backgrounds to participate.” —Linda Liukas, on why playgrounds should be an inspiration for how we build software #BTConf @btconf.bsky.social

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Juri Silvennoinen 🇪🇺🇫🇮 @jurisilvennoinen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Olisipa mulla ollut tämä kirja jo vuosikymmen sitten! Linda Liukas: Nähdä maailma hiekanjyvässä.

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Linda Liukas @lindaliukas.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I want more math that lives in muscles, fingertips, and the tip of the tongue. The playground is a roof-of-concept I keep circling: a public park can function as an operating system for ideas, not just a container for slides and swings.

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Linda Liukas @lindaliukas.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

The Ruoholahti Computer Playground curriculum won the Math Power! Prize by mEducation Alliance (I love that little exclamation mark!)

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Linda Liukas @lindaliukas.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

@colly.com what a treat in the RSS feed! So perfect (and thank you, I never knew one could use RSS this way).

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Linda Liukas @lindaliukas.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

“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.

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Erin McKean @emckean.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

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?

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Linda Liukas @lindaliukas.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

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

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Linda Liukas @lindaliukas.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

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

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Dan HIll @cityofsound.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

“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...

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Urban Technology at University of Michigan week 234

A City Playground, but make it about Computers

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Gerald Benischke @beny23.github.io · 27/03/2025

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

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Linda Liukas @lindaliukas.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

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:

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Linda Liukas @lindaliukas.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

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...

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Linda Liukas @lindaliukas.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

So I used substacktools.com/downloader to download the archive as a corpus and the task worked much better. But made me notice I'm not at all interested in the average, middle-ground ideas a LLM can generate based on average, middle-ground internet.

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Linda Liukas @lindaliukas.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

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.

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Tobias Born @tobiasborn.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

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

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Linda Liukas @lindaliukas.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

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.

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眼底城事 – eyes on place

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Linda Liukas @lindaliukas.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

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...

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Urban Technology at University of Michigan week 234

A City Playground, but make it about Computers

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Linda Liukas @lindaliukas.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

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.)

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Meripu @meripu.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

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

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Tobias Born @tobiasborn.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

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

Oben links sieht man eine Kinderhand, die eine Figur auf einer Landkarte bewegt. Rechts daneben steht "Video-Einblicke in die Arbeit mit der Buchreihe und Unterrichtsmaterialien der PH Zürich". Darunter steht "Englischsprachiges Curriculum des School District San Francisco" und daneben sieht man ausgeschnittene Tanzschritte wie "Jump", "Dab" oder "Hop", die in eine Wiederholdungsschleife geklebt wurden.

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Tobias Born @tobiasborn.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

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

Oben rechts sieht man Ruby ein Handy malen. Neben ihr sind ein Roboter und ein Pinguin. Links daneben steht "Vielfältige Übungen und Arbeitsblätter für den Unterricht auf helloruby.com". Darunter sieht man ein Bild von Linda Liukas bei ihrem Vortrag vor einem LED-Aufsteller auf dem "TedxCern steht". Rechts neben dem Bild steht "TEDtalk der Autorin Linda Liukas zum Buch, den fachlichen Hintergründen und methodisch-didaktischen Hinweisen".

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Tobias Born @tobiasborn.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

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.

Links auf dem Bild sieht man Ruby mit einem jungen mit schwarzen Haaren und einer Schlange um den Hals. Rechts daneben steht "Ruby als weiblich Identifikationsfigur in der Welt der Roboter, Computer und Algorithmen. Unten rechts sitzt Ruby auf einem roten Sessel in ihrem Zimmer, links daneben steht "liebevoller Vorleseteil und fundierter Übungsteil mit passenden Aufgaben zu den Kapiteln".

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Tobias Born @tobiasborn.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

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

"Die Kinderbuchreihe Hello Ruby" rechts daneben ein Foto von einer Puppe mit Zopf und roten Haaren und dem Buch "Hello Ruby - Programmier dir deine Welt", auf dem man die Hauptfigur neben einem kleinen Computer stehen sieht. Unten links sieht man das aufgeschlagene Buch und rechts daneben steht "Medienkompetenzbildung und informatische Grundbildung 'unplugged' in der Grundschule.

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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 11/12/2024

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.”

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On building a career out of curiosity

Author, illustrator, and educator Linda Liukas discusses making computer science education playful, defining success differently, and the reciprocity of teaching

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Brandon Philips @ifup.org · 01/12/2024

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...

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The Grammar of Computers

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Linda Liukas @lindaliukas.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

And Deborah Levy on how "Ballard always insisted he was more interested in inner space than outer space." books.substack.com/p/diary-debo...

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Diary: Deborah Levy on J. G. Ballard

Ballard always insisted he was more interested in inner space than outer space.

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Linda Liukas @lindaliukas.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

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..

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beyond tellerrand @beyondtellerrand.com · 14/11/2024

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

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Linda Liukas – A Playground Worth a Thousand Programmes – beyond tellerrand Berlin 2024

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Linda Liukas @lindaliukas.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

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.

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Linda Liukas @lindaliukas.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

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.

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Linda Liukas @lindaliukas.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

And finally, for the past four years, I’ve written a bi-weekly letter on education, childhood, and computer science. Some favorites include when I made a sorting algorithm out of pancakes, explored children’s drawings of light and the Internet. helloruby.substack.com

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Hello Ruby | Linda Liukas | Substack

A newsletter about education, play, computer science, culture and childhood. Click to read Hello Ruby, by Linda Liukas, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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Linda Liukas @lindaliukas.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

My latest project opened in fall 2024 in Helsinki. The computer themed playground allows kids to explore ideas of computation through movement. While decidedly low-tech, the project led me deep into Reggio Emilia’s idea of environment as the third teacher. helloruby.substack.com/p/no-87-play...

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Linda Liukas @lindaliukas.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

During Covid I wrote, directed, and performed in two video series: Love Letters for Computers and Computer Science in 60 seconds. Each video is paired with a hands-on activity, a teaching guide, lesson planning, home connection, and assessment. helloruby.com/loveletters

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Linda Liukas @lindaliukas.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Ten years ago I started Hello Ruby, an award-winning series that is building the world’s most whimsical way to learn about technology, computers, and programming. Translated into almost 40 languages, it's all about creating childhood memories around computation.

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Linda Liukas @lindaliukas.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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:

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