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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.

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.“

Roam Research alternatives: personal wikis and notes apps that support bidirectional linking and transclusion.

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.’”

“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.”

“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.”

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?”

Once a system is deeply understood “it can do things that its designers never thought possible. You can push hardware beyond its apparent limits.”