Thoughts about interfaces acting like people | Laura Michet's Blog
"Alexa is Jeff Bezos wearing a mask. You shouldn't feel the need to be polite to his little mask."
Modal editing is a weird historical contingency we have through sheer happenstance • Buttondown
"I think the best explanation is that in a vacuum modal editing sounds like a bad idea. The mode is global state that users always have to know, which makes it dangerous. To use new modes well you have to memorize all of the keybindings, which makes it difficult." good post but i would point to things like DAWs and trackers as modal interfaces (there's a record mode and an edit mode)
Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26 - NN/G
this honestly sounds nightmarish
Introduction - Textual
terminal-based gui toolkit for python
David Cole on Twitter: "#5 — When naming a project, they offer great auto-generated titles. Besides being fairly amusing, they also play the role of prompts to spur game ideas. https://t.co/06C43CZUzg" / Twitter
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