Former design-geek turned software-nerd. (Indie)Web tinkerer, wine enthusiast, gamer, notetaker, and art scholar. Red, Wine and Green. Italy, Europe. He/him.
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.”
Firefox Was Always Enough
Ian Bicking (via Nolan Lawson): “Mozilla was never going to be happy building a great browser that its users loved. And don’t we all try to do the thing that makes us happy?”
What would happen if computers never got any faster?
Once a system is deeply understood “it can do things that its designers never thought possible. You can push hardware beyond its apparent limits.”