Spot-on article. What's especially aggravating is the "skill-issue" meme that folks retort with when you make mention of this.
Readit Newsnews_hacker commented on Hidden interface controls that affect usability interactions.acm.org/arch... · Posted by u/cxr
The problem is not the apps, the problem is the users. Which means the problem is human nature.
Make a photography site for people to share photographs and it will inevitably turn into a site for people to share selfies of them pretending to live a life that they do not actually live and can not actually afford, but which you will inevitably compare yourself against.
Make a site for people to share opinions and it will inevitably be dominated by one particular group of users that will shame anyone with any opinion at all that diverges from the tiny area of acceptable opinion.
The problem is not the tools that the users have. The problem is not the engineers. The problem is that people are being giving exactly what they want. The problem is right there in the mirror.
There are no solutions.
Absolutely not. People are not asking for dark patterns to engineer their behavior to maximize retention. This is like locking a kid in a room full of candy, and then blaming them for gorging themselves.
news_hacker commented on Electronics Course (45 episodes, YouTube) youtube.com/playlist?list... · Posted by u/childintime
It’s so disheartening that you can have this much of a laser focused understanding of what you’re looking for and not be able to find it.
Wonder if they could use Google Takeout [1] to export all their YouTube data, and then try to search through the history data.
news_hacker commented on Fighting for the open web [image] davidrevoy.com/article982... · Posted by u/pabs3
I thought I was gonna find some comment in here appreciating Revoy's artistry and dedication for his craft and his commitment to FOSS but it seems everyone just jumped on the web browser argument. It makes me realize how his work just goes unappreciated, like those beautiful snippets he did for a guide to Git.
do you have a link to the git guide?
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The irony of a cookie popup showing up on the author’s blog..
news_hacker commented on Practice typing by retyping entire novels typelit.io/... · Posted by u/axiomdata316
>Except that instruments don't come with a backspace. If you want a closer approximation simply refuse to edit your texts at all: write it out in one go and refuse to fix any mistake that you make.
The other day someone posted a webapp they wrote that doesn't let you edit and that blurs all the text except the current line while you're typing. If you want to edit your text, you need to download the file. His aim was to separate writing from editing, which I think it's an interesting approach.
Anyone have a link for this?
I would love an AI-enabled chat bot that transforms text -> diagrams. Diagram creation could still be a lot easier.
For example: "I want to show that the causes of burnout are the following 5 categories: 1) lack of purpose, 2) community breakdown, 3) ... " -> and then that gets turned into a diagram. Then an update like: "make lack of purpose more prominent" and it increases in size.
I would even settle for a transformer that converts natural language to one of the diagram syntax languages in the OP link.
https://pastebin.com/CPBiqd1E