It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons @ tonsky.me
"[U]ntil we get a direct chip-to-brain interface, HIG will stay relevant." got it. HIG is all that separates us from full panopticon surveillance fascism
ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash
"There were a tiny handful of incredible nerds who thought [Zork] was fun, mostly because 3D graphics and the physical touch of another human being hadn't been invented yet. But for the most part, people would tire of the novelty because trying to guess what to type to make something happen is a terrible and exhausting user interface. This was also why people hated operating systems like MS-DOS, and why even all the Linux users reading this right now are doing so in a graphical user interface." I get that Dash is exaggerating here for effect, but the comparison between command-line interfaces and LLM chatbot interfaces rings false to me. Command-line interfaces have steep learning curves, but they're deterministic and composable, which is why we still use them today. The reason that chatbot interfaces suck isn't that they're based on textual inputs, but that they're neither deterministic nor composable. (GUIs have different affordances than command-line interfaces which make sense for some use cases, but they also have their own learning curves and limitations. A hypothetical GUI-based LLM interface would have all the same problems as a text-based one.) Plus the Zork series sold like 700,000 copies
Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26 - NN/G
this honestly sounds nightmarish
GlidePoint Circle Trackpads - Cirque | Mouser
not sure why i couldn't find these before? small, relatively inexpensive, same brand as the trackpads in the steam deck
Jakob Nielsen’s Bad Ideas about Accessibility – Brian DeConinck
"In other words, some users get the full experience, the one with all the words, all the context, and all the options. But if Nielsen’s AI thinks you have a disability, you’ll get a different experience, a simpler experience that’s more appropriate for people like you. It’s an ugly kind of paternalism with a new AI twist."
Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
every onion story eventually comes true
blackout engine
intuitive and fun blackout poetry interface, using snippets from project gutenberg
the mouse holds us
emma's tremendous thesis project
Getting Started With The Web MIDI API — Smashing Magazine
Face
"Face lets you edit both the text and the font it is rendered in. In text mode you can type and edit text normally. Press escape to enter font mode, where you can select a character to edit. Any changes to a character are visible immediately."
ProseMirror
well this looks like a dream come true?
Building my first keyboard (and you can too) – Sasha Solomon – Medium
detailed explanation of an unbelievably bad-ass build, fuck
What we learned from getting our autocomplete tested for accessibility - Accessibility in government
Dotgrid by Rekka & Devine
"Dotgrid is a distractionless vector tool with line styles, corner controls, colours, grid-based tools, PNG and SVG export."