I'd like to see a layout system that maximizes rivers in the text. Lets make reading weird.
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lifefeed commented on Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen cybercultural.com/p/web-d... · Posted by u/panic
Another seminal book for me, was Web Pages That Suck. They actually used to throw shade on Creating Killer Web Sites. Lots of big egos, back then.
I learned quite a bit from that book. I think Flanders may still have a site. I was on his mailing list, but I haven’t heard anything for the last decade or so.
I loved that site too.
Nowadays everything is so optimized and efficient, I've become nostalgic for the days when webpages sometimes sucked. At least they had personality, even if they were hard to use. It's like cars, I like looking at super old old cars in museums and wondering what all those pedals and levers do, even if I'm happy to not drive them.
lifefeed commented on One hundred and one rules of effective living mitchhorowitz.substack.co... · Posted by u/mathgenius
> In more than thirty years as a writer, editor, and publisher, I have, to my best reckoning, introduced, abridged, issued or reissued, and read nearly every major work of inspirational literature produced or translated into English.
I'm always wary of people who spend too much time in the world of inspirational books. It's healthy to read a little, and to "sharpen the ax" every so often, but reading too much of this stuff is mind-numbing outside of historiography reasons.
lifefeed commented on Dimension 126 Contains Twisted Shapes, Mathematicians Prove quantamagazine.org/dimens... · Posted by u/baruchel
Well, shit.
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This is a small bit, and I don't know anything about Zuckerberg's personal life, but "he refuses to get out of bed before noon" is normally more a sign of depression than laziness.
They don't always hit the mark but I sort of miss the times when Apple would innovate more boldly with their devices.
Apple Intelligence isn't it - it's just playing catch-up with a market that tries to slap AI onto everything it can think of.
The hardware upgrades are always nice but there's nothing 'out there' like a touch bar or even a 'dynamic island'. Just more safe iterations.
It's been a while since they made a bold choice. When I bought an iPhone a couple years ago, even the apple store employee kinda shrugged his shoulders when I asked if the new 14 phone was better, besides the camera, than the cheaper 13.
in a documentary we watched, made by Disney, it seemed there's extensive infrastructure on a lower level in the Orlando DisneyWorld. Maybe that's part of the reason it's not obvious.
You get to walk around the underground backstage yourself if you take Disney's "Keys to the Kingdom" tour. Basically, everything the public sees of Magic Kingdom is on floor 2.
lifefeed commented on Some terminal frustrations jvns.ca/blog/2025/02/05/s... · Posted by u/aragilar
I always enjoy seeing people still using Perl out in the wild. Lynx, too. I use chezmoi for dotfiles management myself but honestly it's kind of overkill, I should probably just start tracking ~ like this.
I've tried a few dotfile management tools, and yeah they're always overkill. Plus it's one more dependency to handle when I'm setting up a new environment.
lifefeed commented on Some terminal frustrations jvns.ca/blog/2025/02/05/s... · Posted by u/aragilar
One of the highest ROI things I ever did was just write a few bash scripts which can be run out of the box on a fresh copy of Ubuntu, and set me up with everything I want there to be. [1]
As a result, most of the non-memory issues listed here are things I solved once in those scripts and rarely have to think about again. Most of the simple memory issues can be solved by running `cheat x` and/or `tldr x`, where x = the program I'm struggling to remember the basic usecase of, both installed by those scripts of course. Most of the more obscure memory issues I can deal with with either ChatGPT or Anki these days.
I originally considered writing my scripts as a `host: localhost` Ansible playbook instead, but then I remembered that whatever I might gain in idempotency I would lose tenfold in hackability. I am guaranteed to be doing shell for the rest of my life; I am decidedly not guaranteed to be doing Ansible, or any other config management tool for that matter.
I did the same. I have a little dotfiles repo[0] on github that I clone on a new machine, then I execute a setup.sh file that installs a messy set of aliases and functions to set up my cozy unix world.