Former design-geek turned software-nerd. (Indie)Web tinkerer, wine enthusiast, gamer, notetaker, and art scholar. Red, Wine and Green. Italy, Europe. He/him.
Why Large Tech Companies Always Burn Power Users
Ernie Smith on the history of Power Users:
They are the weekend warriors, the stress testers, the overly ambitious creators, the ones who will break things because they don’t care about limits. They are your best resource for quality assurance and your worst nightmare on a holiday weekend.
There's another Goodreads alternative that just launched: https://
Let's say you find a subject of interest on another Mastodon instance, should you just sign-up there or are there ways to "follow" another instance's local timeline? A quick search on this matter brings up various discussion threads on GitHub but none providing a definitive answer. Is this still being worked on?
Convenience, scale, and tabs
About convenience, scale and tabs: “If I find that I'm juggling a dozen different documents or tasks or ideas, then very likely my attention is being squandered.” In a world where creating another tab is just a keyboard shortcut away “the shift from human- to inhuman-scale went unnoticed.“
What are the best Roam Research alternatives?
Roam Research alternatives: personal wikis and notes apps that support bidirectional linking and transclusion.
An oral history of the hamburger icon by the people who were there
Norm Cox about the design process behind a ubiquitous UI feature: “I looked at it, and thought, ‘Gosh, I probably did that at 8:30 at night on a Tuesday and never thought twice about it.’”
Sensors of world’s largest digital camera snap first 3,200-megapixel images at SLAC
“Using the [Legacy Survey of Space and Time] Camera, the observatory will create the largest astronomical movie of all time and shed light on some of the biggest mysteries of the universe, including dark matter and dark energy.”
Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You?
“The A.I. system sees each face as a complex mathematical figure, a range of values that can be shifted. Choosing different values — like those that determine the size and shape of eyes — can alter the whole image.”