something that is particularly interesting is how much interface design relies on white lies -- computers are great examples, the icon and semiotics of "saving" a document has very little to do with what is actually happening. so cognitive abstractions for managing a ship being semi-reliable is fun
The book has become a true classic: everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. Taking the opposite approach, I have read the book, despite not wanting to read it.
save the date :0 !!!
html day 8.8.2026 !
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effects of HTML:
- mood lift, euphoria
- increased giggling and laughing
- creative, philosophical or deep thinking: ideas flow more easily
- boring tasks or entertainment can become more interesting or funny
- sensation of insight
- intense feelings of wonder
(my first thought was drawing charts on it, but I think it's more evocative to imagine plotting individual data points on it as they come in, so it's like a disposable database table you're appending to. a whole chart feels too much like a finished artifact, not right for this form)
need a dedicated device for messaging
data gathering tools…
happy birthday dude!
otoh, when I'm booking a flight or train or concert ticket in China or SE Asia or something, I'm always like, I should probably use the phone app (often I _must_ use the phone app)
the phone is the way the vast majority of people are interacting with the service! it's what the service was made for!
yeah, you can't program your phone from your phone and really be a peer of the Apple/Google software on it, so in some sense it's not a "computer" at all, it's closer to a video game console than a PC
why are macs so obsessed with storing DSs anyway. Aren't they on the switch nowdays.
memory's gotten so expensive! still cheaper than forgetting, though
Paying my water bill on the city's blog.
"blog" is now a synonym for what people used to call "website"
introduction of end-to-end encryption to Facebook Messenger has made my life significantly worse
eee pc / other netbooks were cool category because for the first time they weren't 'laptop', where 'laptop' in the 2000s was a pretty expensive, slightly more portable replacement for a desktop
making an IDE might be harder than making an OS tbh
This computer is the reason you can't download all software for free.
The Franklin Computer Corp was a computer manufacturer founded in the early 1980s. Their flagship product was a clone of the Apple II, one of the most popular personal computers of the day.
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Greetings from the Northwestern University Transportation Library, where Rachel just showed me the original!
wifi network that your phone automatically connects to that only exists inside a Faraday cage box that you have to put your phone inside, so you can never see or use your phone while it's on the network
Normal game engine era??
Satellite Eyes is a free, open source MacOS app that sets your desktop wallpaper to the satellite view of your current location. I've just released 2.0, which adds an option to shuffle through a selection of interesting-to-look-at places from around the world. satelliteeyes.tomtaylor.co.uk
has anyone played around with Airpods apis (head tracking for spatial audio)?
my hope is to play around with controlling an app without having to look at a screen.. would be an interesting design challenge and would be great when walking around, on the subway, or just a diff experience
They should let me store data on the Velcro patch on the back of my phone
Palmleaf Linear B tablet in purple Play-doh, reading pi-pa MUL 1 ko-wo 1
Purple Play-doh Linear B tablet with red stylus and son's curly red hair in the background
Turns out you can get a really nice bladed stylus with Play-doh, perfect for Linear B!
Harlem in 1970 or a management strategy game from 1999? 🤔
Trying to find a good way to build intuition around distance field fonts: how about comparing it to a map? The land is the filled text, the beach is the outline, the ocean is transparent (optionally a glow/shadow effect). Not sure whether this will make sense to the reader.
Reporting Threshold: Hangs (>500ms) Include Microhangs (>250ms) Include Brief Unresponsiveness (>100 ms) Include All Potential Interaction Delays (>33 ms)
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