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I really like this idea! It's quite fun to play around with, but it feels like there's not a lot of deliberate choice I can make. It also just works really well and is super smooth. One thing that could be improved about rendering are the edges of the polygon. They look very washed out, even on my 14" UHD display. A little bit like a very low-quality AA was used.

What's a little annoying is that colours jump around when I move anchors closer or farther away from each other, but I guess there's no good solution for that.

Also, it would be nice if the connections between the anchors were less obvious. Right now, they're very clearly visible straight lines. Not sure how that could be solved, though, either.

What colour space are you using for all the transitions?

That sounded quite negative, but I really like what you've done here, it's a very creative approach to an otherwise technical topic.

Interestingly, I don’t really read reddit even on my PC anymore after removing it from my phone. Like I opened it a few time, immediately got bored, and went on to do something else.

Yeah, I’m not a big fan either. Especially the 6,8 and 9 are super inconsistent with the other numerals.

Instead of relying so heavily on circles, which don’t appear in any of the other numerals, a three quarter circle arc would’ve worked much better. The cut could then sit between the arc and the straight edge. even the eight could have this straight edge between the two arcs, with the ends of the arcs being the respective cut.

Maybe that wasn’t striking enough for the designer, though.

The decimal design notes were also linked in the article. An absolutely stunning font.

Do you know what the current state of the Hoefler vs. Frere-Jones is? I love the thorough approach to design they take with their typefaces, but wouldn’t want to license them if I know the original designer got scammed out of his profits.

The smartphone is not the problem, it’s what you put on it. Once you got twitter and instagram and reddit, boy oh boy are you gonna reach for that thing when you’re bored even just a little.

So yeah, I agree. My smartphone also handles 2FA, PayPal and bus tickets. None of that is harmful to me, but very useful, and giving it up just for living without a smartphone seems pointless.

Wait, is the operand really always on the left? stp and ldp seem to be exceptions, where the two values are the left operands, and the memory location is the right. Or am I missing something here?

This sounded ridiculous at first, but after looking at it, I understood the value preposition.

It’s a colorscheme, yes, but you pay for the consistent support of over 160 apps, which is a big deal IMO. Heck, every program under the sun seems to offer a solarized dark theme, but they’re all wrong in different ways and use different accent colors for different things, so I rolled my own in a lot of cases to get an actually consistent appearance. It’s a huge hassle, and just paying 80$ would probably have saved money compared to the hours and days I spent manually theming stuff.

For me it’s more about not overloading webmention.io with requests for every single visitor of your site. It seems more respectful to just re-build occasionally and thus cache the webmentions on your side. The performance is secondary to me, though it is an accessibility concern as well.

Now that I saw it on your site, I'm absolutely considering it. I think server-side is the way to go, though, as explained by one of the webmentions on your post: https://nicolas-hoizey.com/articles/2020/05/05/jamstack-is-f...

Sadly true. I get by with LibreOffice, but I'm not a power user at all, yet I still hit usability quirks and bugs all the time. For stuff that just needs to work, I use Google stuff instead, if begrudgingly.

Absolutely agree. There are so many creative but obnoxious design patterns caused by a need to distinguish a brand or the designers seeing themselves as artists more than engineers. Coolness over usability is commonplace, but it's not a good mantra to follow, and it's genuinely refreshing to see stuff like https://www.nngroup.com/ that is usable and functional on all devices, as boring as it may look.

But it doesn't have to be this way. Look at https://play.date/ or https://tokio.rs/, functional yet interesting. Tokio.rs in particular has the best implementation of one of the worst patterns in the modern web: sticky content that changes when you scroll. It's a great visual aid in this case, but becomes annoying quickly when overused.

What surprises me the most is that in all the controversy, nobody tried to interpret the text as what it clearly was; a criticism of practices in mobile game development.

Instead, they got offended by the very thing the text was crticising, which is viewing the players of mobile games as a lower class of human that can and therefore must be milked for cash.

It feels like the whole controversy is just a misunderstanding of two groups having the same idea, but wording it differently.

I do, I’m just saying not everybody cares. And one may care even less when there’s no ads to be seen.

I also think the way Apple handles animations gives people a sense of the OS being more organic and friendly and less technical and difficult. In the past, they did that with skeuomorphism, but people are more OK with their phone being a technical device. Still, they're continuing to communicate the underlying concept is that everything has a LOCATION. So menus move in from off-screen, they don't just fade in from thin air. Unused UI-elements move off-screen as well, so they're not gone, they just moved outside your view. The Dock is another great example of this, as well as the animations for opening apps or three-finger swiping between full-screen apps. I believe this makes users less confused and more confident in their ability to use the system. It is also important that Apple is very specific about which speeds and accelerations elements move at, adding to the organic feel and making the OS feel more polished.

Apple's big strength is to make people feel safe and welcome in their ecosystem, and they target people who are willing to pay more for that experience.

The point is to get to choose the experience you want, and if you want the simplicity of having an Android box connected to your dumb Tv, that’s a-ok. If you want to go kore custom and just have a raspi with plex on it, that’s great, too.

The problem with smart TVs is that they force tracking and ads upon you, with little to no options of opting out.

It’s worth noting that they sell very high-peice dumb TVs for over 2000$ as well now, so I’d expect those to have pretty amazing panels built in.

What was the problem, then? I thought the idea of TLDs initially was to separate domains between countries so they could manage them themselves and create less collisions between local registrars?

Depends on what you mean by “using”. It is conceivably possible to compile a webassembly interpreter like wac[1] with cosmopolitan, which would then run on all OSes and bare metal, yes.

[1]: https://github.com/kanaka/wac

Oh god yes, backspace outside the text box is the worst. Some websites mitigate this themselves, but it would really be nice if the browser could take care of this.

Don't we already? I thought I used that before.

Nah, docs in general are just very big these days, it makes quite a bit of sense to not load all of them into one single page. I do like that I can search all of pandoc's documentation with just Ctrl+F, but that's not reasonable for all software. Heck, even man pages are split up into many pages for more complex tools.

What I dislike about footnotes like that is that they pollute the browser history. If you want to leave the page but clicked on a few footnotes and their backlinks, you have to go “back” through all of them.

Thank you so much for posting gwern’s sidenote article! I want to use sidenotes on my site and this was a very valuable resource!

Where does everyone get their books from? From what I could tell, all books you can buy commercially come with proprietary (Amazon) or Adobe (everyone else) DRM, making them impossible to read on koreader. It seems like you always have to buy into someone's ecosystem, or am I missins something?

Where are you getting that from? The github repo (https://github.com/koreader/koreader) lists many supported formats and features, including epubs.

Thanks for the suggestion. Drift looks interesting as well, but it’s hard to say whether any of its additional features are really worth it compared to the regular tiddlywiki.

Are you just hosting this on a VPS?

That was meant more as a preliminary defense as I saw other people complain and don’t know enough to defend the specific legislation.

But damn, that is indeed a pretty good indicator that it’s working as intended.

Any idea what the differences are? Am I missing anything by keeping to use autojump?

Exactly, this just brings to light how little most companies care about their customers.

Not saying the legislation couldn't be improved, though.

> Honestly Google should have just boycotted Europe for a week and seen how well everyone handles not having gmail, google, or anything.

So we'd all be using outlook.com, bing and other alternatives now. Would've been a really bad move to just forfeit a market like that.

The cookie banners do actually help a lot, as they bring awareness about privacy issues to the broader public and allow to choose which sites to use based on how hard they make it to opt-out.

Laws like this are important because they make companies design for the benefit of the consumer as opposed to just for their own. And I'm gald the EU is pushing for this with the power they have while no other legal entity of similar size seems to bother.

Oh boy, TiddlyWiki looks amazing! I'm using Joplin right now, and the rigid structure of having notes in notebooks and sub-notebooks really starts getting in the way.