because of work I got back into doing spaced repetition again, and I see so many narrow use cases even in domains that don't seem a likely fit at first
I haven't fully fleshed this out yet, but I'm convinced that any discussion about technology—and interface design in particular—that doesn't begin with what makes us human (for better and worse) is fundamentally misguided and won't lead anywhere good
love when a website is hosted via Apache and I can remove the last part of the URL, see the page directory and then continue exploring the site on my own
You should be able to block short form video content as a medium everywhere
the "I can fix her" meme, but it's me and Safari
How can the people implementing this not be severely embarrassed by themselves eludes me
Shell scripting might be the prime example here, with Bash being notoriously complicated and error prone. Another the insanely bad UX of most debuggers on Unix-like systems, and lastly the hostility of Stackoverflow (and derivatives) towards more novice members
Which is to the say: the solution to these problems is, and already were, online communities in the broader sense
People went to Reddit instead of parsing Google’s results way before the advent of LLMs. The difference is simply that 2) lost lots of its friction (now we can ask the LLM to parse through all these results). Where it get’s more interesting though is that 1) gains in importance in the process
It's a bit hard to sketch out what I envision as the ideal without sounding absolutistic... the most important thing above all is consistency in the end. if a popular approach that is advocated for religiously makes you abandon the language all together you should screw it as soon as you can
All of our interfaces converging towards a single chat window is so fucking dumb. People have no imagination left
even though having more of everything in less time is en vogue these days, I think the value obtained by the absence of things is too easily dismissed. I want more of less
"Are you 18 years or older?" - Bash's a tool to dangerous for our young indeed
Unironically, yes?! I keep saying this, but instead of outsourcing reasoning for complex tasks that we, as humans, are pretty good at, we should leverage the strengths of LLMs in making sense of vast amounts of unstructured input text, that is hard to come by algorithmically, wherever we can
The long-form sounds more catchy, but I like that including “Tree” immediately unveils what’s beneath. Given that the abbreviation is mnemonic I suppose we’ll later call it just “STAR” anyway so removing it from the long-form doesn’t add much imo
why are custom handles on profile pages not clickable?
It’s interesting to see how western companies slowly seem to work towards a state that seems to be the norm already in other countries. Even for something as innocent as Apple Music age verification is necessary to listen to certain things in South Korea. But no one seems to beat an eye here
How to you handle URL size restrictions? I wanted to try something conceptually similar (storing meta data directly in URLs) but decided against it because of the above
We need URLs everywhere for everything, the way we have GPS and calendars for location and time. I want to send links to passages in PDFs and to specific moments in a song I’m listening to. Everything should be shareable