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webwielder2··on Plans for a new city in the American desert
Place it at the intersection of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming to undo some of the Senate/EC slant.
webwielder2··on Mayor suggests Helsinki declare itself an English-language city
Predictions a year out are a crap shoot, I think all bets are off when we get to a thousand!
webwielder2··on Tardigrades Walk
It's amazing how few atoms you need for a fully functional, fully articulated animal.
webwielder2··on Fake animal rescue videos have become a new frontier for animal abuse
YouTube only ever recommends to me videos about debunking fake videos instead of the fake videos themselves. Does this mean I'm savvy?
webwielder2··on Silicon Valley's biggest fraud is on trial
Maybe it was all just an elaborate prank played on the luminaries of the military-industrial-media complex. The first time Henry Kissinger, Rupert Murdoch, and their ilk experienced any sort of even the mildest of comeuppances.
webwielder2··on Why San Francisco’s city government is so dysfunctional
I've never read about any organization larger than zero people that didn't seem hopelessly corrupt, bureaucratic, toxic, or dysfunctional. Things do occasionally get done, though.
webwielder2··on How do I manage an employee who doesn’t need the job?
Modern?
webwielder2··on Economic costs of war
How much would it cost to make the US carbon neutral? Or cure one of the top 10 terminal illnesses/conditions?
webwielder2··on Affinity 1.10
Apple's Motion is worth checking out.
webwielder2··on Accomplishments: Apple Macintosh Group (6/'83 – 8/'87)
Unreleased products are always way better than what ships ;-)
webwielder2··on Monodraw: ASCII art editor for the Mac
This is why I love the Mac. Even obscure apps have a beautiful interface and easy to use web site. I know this is incendiary, but I must say it: on Windows, this app's site would have seven giant, fake download buttons, the actual download would play an ad, and the app would look like something from a fever dream.
webwielder2··on The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)
Apple won this back in 1999: https://i.imgur.com/V9WQ8Gc.png
webwielder2··on Why Richard Branson’s flight matters
If I was a billionaire I'd be spending money to ensure planet Earth is habitable.
webwielder2··on Why Google's bookmark manager and Docs have purposefully bad UI
Would be curious to read a blog post explaining why "Bookmark OS" has a UI that looks like someone recreated OS X Leopard from memory.
webwielder2··on Launch HN: Pabio (YC S21) – Interior design and furniture rental as a service
I wonder if Hacker News has ever considered making OP content readable.
webwielder2··on Former Trump aide Jason Miller to launch new social app “Gettr”
Was the "Grabem" domain taken?
webwielder2··on Unusual prey: spiders eating snakes
Though global warming may eventually obviate this, I feel like the phrase “except Antarctica” can be omitted in most cases where it’s used.
webwielder2··on Whatever Happened to UI Affordances?
It’s very funny to me that people think “the past” was a UX wonderland.
webwielder2··on Woodsat: A Space Agency Will Launch a Tiny, Wooden Satellite
Obligatory Onion: https://www.theonion.com/russian-scientists-announce-six-mon...
webwielder2··on No evidence UFOs are alien craft, unclassified US intelligence report to reveal
Well, duh.
webwielder2··on Study reveals new details on what happened in the first microsecond of Big Bang
Now do one microsecond before.
webwielder2··on Competing with Steve Jobs (the first time)
Microsoft has been unbelievably successful, and yet intrinsic to their history is being behind the curve in both vision and execution. There’s probably a lesson in that.
webwielder2··on Mauryan Polish
Once stone is polished, does it forever remain thus? I find it amazing that a 2000 year old artifact could be shiny.
webwielder2··on Show HN: I wrote a book about UI [pdf]
Non-snarky question: why isn't this a web page?
webwielder2··on Over the past 10 years, the LHC has found more than 50 new hadrons
Could it be that string theory is correct, insofar as the universe is written in spaghetti code?
webwielder2··on Tracking the San Francisco Tech Exodus
People and companies leave SF because it's too expensive, SF gets less expensive, people and companies come back to SF, SF gets expensive...?
webwielder2··on The Achilles Heel of the Coronavirus
Not very sporting to target your own exploits.
webwielder2··on Why does every advert look the same? Corporate Memphis
Trends are trendy, film at 11.
webwielder2··on The origin of “tweet” at Twitter (2013)
Threads, too. And Favorites was a feature for bookmarking but users turned it into a Like button. Also I believe their bird logo was bought at iStock.
webwielder2··on Longest pedestrian suspension bridge opens in Portugal
Has "municipality builds kinda neat thing to revitalize local economy" ever worked?
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