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Have I missed something, how do we know she eats meat?

I’m building an image sharing site (just for me and a couple of friends) that tries to emulate the old days of Flickr and Instagram. Chronological feed, no recommendation algorithm, no reels, no ads, etc. Knowing that it’ll never be open to registration or “real” users takes all the pressure and expectation away and it’s just been fun to work on.

A nice nostalgia hit. The "Bondi blue" iMac was my first workplace computer, for a local council. I had Photohop, Illustrator and QuarkXPress, making websites, banner graphics(!), print artwork, all kinds of things. Even then, I do remember the iMac being painfully slow.

An icon is kind of “visual shorthand”: a way to leverage peripheral vision and pre-attentive processing so a user can understand a control's purpose in milliseconds.

The user won't learn a UI from icons alone, but once learned, distinct icons speed up recall massively. The problem with the modern trend of hyper-homogenised, uniform icons is that they destroy this advantage. When every icon has the exact same stroke weight, color, and geometric bounding box, they blur into a useless mush.

He’s the reason Mogwai have a track called “Ritchie Sacramento”

See also: https://www.wikitok.io/

And a plug for my own (fiendishly difficult) Wikipedia-based game:

https://studiowgx.willgrant.org/wikipedia-golf/

Why did I see graphite on the roof?

Try searching Reddit, I just found some lists. I’ve given up and instead just don’t allow things on my network. My “smart” TV begs me to see the network but I just use a Roku instead. I fear it’s come to this where we have to circumvent our own devices desperate need for connectivity.

Interesting!

>Claude shows a striking “spiritual bliss” attractor state in self-interactions. When conversing with other Claude instances in both open-ended and structured environments, Claude gravitated to profuse gratitude and increasingly abstract and joyous spiritual or meditative expressions.

They’re not

The Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a research group based in Germany that tracks support from foreign governments toward Ukraine, estimates that the U.S. has allocated about $119 billion. The reason the estimate is different from U.S. government data, the institute explains, is because it only includes direct aid to Ukraine -- not money appropriated in the bills that relate to Ukraine but are not bilateral, such restocking U.S. weapon stockpiles or aiding refugees.

By comparison, Kiel found European nations have all together allocated around $138 billion to Ukraine.

I recall getting a DC tour of LON3 and being totally blown away by it all as a 20-something web dev. Good times.

Is there a viable way for me to make every site load like this (iOS)? And optimally toggle back to the “full site” if I want to.

Add to that: Floating Points, Rival Consoles, Brian Eno…

Thank you for this! You just unlocked some old memories of “Digitiser” which led me here:

https://teletextart.co.uk/artists/paul-rose-mr-biffo

Text of the letter:

Corsewall Light & Fog Signal Station, Sept 4th 1892. This lantern was erected by James Wells Engineer, John Westwood Millwright, James Brodie Engineer, David Scott Labourer, of the firm of James Milne & Son Engineers, Milton House Works, Edinburgh, during the months from May to September and relighted on Thursday night 15th Sept 1892. The following being keepers at the station at this time, John Wilson Principal, John B Henderson 1st assistant, John Lockhart 2nd assistant. The lens and machine being supplied by James Dove &Co Engineers Greenside Edinburgh and erected by William Burness, John Harrower, James Dods. Engineers with the above firm.

I find the EFF site perfectly readable. Not sure what you’re experiencing but it looks fine to me.

I think it's fair to say that my 25+ year career in design started with DPaint on an Amiga, and I'd be somewhere very different today without it.

"In this episode of the Steering Engineering Podcast, we examine key findings from a recent survey of 500 developers about their satisfaction with 17 critical attributes of their developer experience."

Why?

> would

Tufte is still alive!

I've recently gone "cold turkey" off of Reddit and I've noticed a big boost in my general mood. Also, it's always nice to see someone I know on the HN front page. Hi Toto! :waves:

My response in a URL:

https://wgx.github.io/anypage/?eyJoMSI6IkhlbGxvIEhOISIsImgyI...

Over the years, organizations look inward. Their products, features and practices become more self-serving and less user-serving. Design Thinking aims to flip people's mindset to re-focus on user needs over and above internal corporate needs. That's pretty much all there is to it.

Dan your second link isn’t about the book, and it’s now a 404.

Edit: neither link are about the book.

I've seen it once, in Chicago. I was in my early 20s and I didn't know back then there were lots of versions of it.

How about exposing the "upcoming" dates to users? It's a bit a of tease not knowing where it'll be next...

Rest and Vest

Ah, I already did this! :)

https://wgx.github.io/anypage/editor

100% agree. In fact most all of the successful-in-business people I know owe a huge amount of their success to luck. They’re also the often last to acknowledge the part luck played in their story. This, coupled with survivorship bias of startups who win, leads to people thinking it’s more likely to build a successful company in tech than the reality.

I'm old enough to remember my Mac G5 keyboard which still sported an Apple logo on the Command key before they did away with it for `cmd` instead.

https://www.google.com/search?q=mac+g5+keyboard&tbm=isch