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Going to the library with a toddler means skimming through books in seconds. You learn to make choices fast; what comes home, what stays. This one made me pause.
December 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Going to the library with a toddler means skimming through books in seconds. You learn to make choices fast; what comes home, what stays. This one made me pause.
Recommendation: www.albertina.at/en/exhibitio...
FASCINATION PAPER
www.albertina.at
December 11, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Recommendation: www.albertina.at/en/exhibitio...
LLM on a C64.
(llama2.c64 by YTM/Elysium)
(llama2.c64 by YTM/Elysium)
November 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
LLM on a C64.
(llama2.c64 by YTM/Elysium)
(llama2.c64 by YTM/Elysium)
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building the world's first ethical data centre, powered by david graeber's spinning corpse
November 19, 2025 at 3:03 AM
building the world's first ethical data centre, powered by david graeber's spinning corpse
The UI choices in macOS Tahoe leave me puzzled. Why outline every group with hard border-lines, pair them with oversized, toy-like corner radii, then box the window controls together with the sidebar?
November 17, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The UI choices in macOS Tahoe leave me puzzled. Why outline every group with hard border-lines, pair them with oversized, toy-like corner radii, then box the window controls together with the sidebar?
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The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
Watching the Coca-Cola AI slop "workflow" get publicly dismantled is - in a way - hilarious.
Still, design - especially UX/UI - has a long tradition of its own kind of process theatre. Who hasn't been tempted to trace wireframes after-the-fact, just to meet expectations?
Still, design - especially UX/UI - has a long tradition of its own kind of process theatre. Who hasn't been tempted to trace wireframes after-the-fact, just to meet expectations?
November 12, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Watching the Coca-Cola AI slop "workflow" get publicly dismantled is - in a way - hilarious.
Still, design - especially UX/UI - has a long tradition of its own kind of process theatre. Who hasn't been tempted to trace wireframes after-the-fact, just to meet expectations?
Still, design - especially UX/UI - has a long tradition of its own kind of process theatre. Who hasn't been tempted to trace wireframes after-the-fact, just to meet expectations?
The usual low- vs. high-fidelity prototyping distinction (cf. ISO 9241-210) is not particularly useful. It provides no language to indicate what exactly is kept "rough" and what is "polished" what is included or omitted, and which aspects are just artifacts of the prototyping tool.
November 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The usual low- vs. high-fidelity prototyping distinction (cf. ISO 9241-210) is not particularly useful. It provides no language to indicate what exactly is kept "rough" and what is "polished" what is included or omitted, and which aspects are just artifacts of the prototyping tool.
Improving ux through Jira is like trying to describe the sun to post-nuclear mole people.
October 13, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Improving ux through Jira is like trying to describe the sun to post-nuclear mole people.
"The work of engineers used to be about taking small parts that they understood entirely and using simple techniques to compose them into larger things […]" – Sussman, 2008
wingolog.org/archives/201...
wingolog.org/archives/201...
September 26, 2025 at 7:35 AM
"The work of engineers used to be about taking small parts that they understood entirely and using simple techniques to compose them into larger things […]" – Sussman, 2008
wingolog.org/archives/201...
wingolog.org/archives/201...
UNABSTRACTED ARCHITECTURE
September 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
UNABSTRACTED ARCHITECTURE
ABSTRACT ARCHITECTURE (Zemanek, 1979)
"Sins of design are hereditary: they bind the following generations and this is much worse than it sounds."
"Sins of design are hereditary: they bind the following generations and this is much worse than it sounds."
September 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
ABSTRACT ARCHITECTURE (Zemanek, 1979)
"Sins of design are hereditary: they bind the following generations and this is much worse than it sounds."
"Sins of design are hereditary: they bind the following generations and this is much worse than it sounds."
There are some well established places where one can explain shortcuts. The email *body* is not one of them.
September 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
There are some well established places where one can explain shortcuts. The email *body* is not one of them.
Computing should feel like this.
August 15, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Computing should feel like this.
Avoided hotel safes for ages due to frustrating setup processes: Press '*' twice, wait for the green led, close, enter code, now press '#' etc. etc. Surprised by the big leap in usability. Turns out a simple 'lock' button was all we ever needed.
August 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Avoided hotel safes for ages due to frustrating setup processes: Press '*' twice, wait for the green led, close, enter code, now press '#' etc. etc. Surprised by the big leap in usability. Turns out a simple 'lock' button was all we ever needed.
It’s Burger Time.
July 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
It’s Burger Time.
The subtle allure of consumer tech that reached peak refinement… just before slipping into obsolescence.
July 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
The subtle allure of consumer tech that reached peak refinement… just before slipping into obsolescence.
“There's a profound issue […] that is haunting this hype around agents, and it is ultimately threatening to break the blood brain barrier between the application layer and the OS layer” – www.youtube.com/live/AyH7zoP...
The State of Personal Online Security and Confidentiality | SXSW LIVE
YouTube video by SXSW
www.youtube.com
March 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
“There's a profound issue […] that is haunting this hype around agents, and it is ultimately threatening to break the blood brain barrier between the application layer and the OS layer” – www.youtube.com/live/AyH7zoP...
anti-design is back
March 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
anti-design is back