tiborsaas (u/tiborsaas)

tiborsaas commented on The End of Handwriting wired.com/story/the-end-o... · Posted by u/beardyw

voidUpdate · 4 days ago

As a left handed person, fountain pens are basically a no-go. What actually helped improve my handwriting was not doing cursive, but writing each letter individually, which forces me to pause between each letter. Still using the lower case forms (though I did try all caps for a while), but just forcing myself to slow down. Still have problems with 9 vs 4 though

tiborsaas · 4 days ago

I'm also left handed and the closest thing I've found to fountain pens are rollerball pens, it's very smooth and easy to write with them, they are sharp and dry instantly.

tiborsaas commented on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room nytimes.com/2025/08/18/ar... · Posted by u/asnyder

Loudergood · 6 days ago

Timely, I was just wondering yesterday (as I was launching the BF6 beta) if there was a current FPS with a mod scene like we had for Half Life and BF 1942.

I can't seem to find anything.

tiborsaas · 6 days ago

Cyberpunk 2077 does seem to have a large audience making mods: https://www.nexusmods.com/games/cyberpunk2077/mods

edit: actually, I got it backwards, just browse nexus mods :)

tiborsaas commented on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file al3rez.com/todo-txt-journ... · Posted by u/al3rez

tiborsaas · 12 days ago

I guess the real workhorse here is Neovim and the custom hotkey for launching todo.txt

tiborsaas commented on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA ostechnix.com/linux-reach... · Posted by u/marcodiego

ryandv · a month ago

Based on the history of the tech industry, Linux adoption should be kept at this level and advanced no further. This is already the sweet spot for the "year of the Linux desktop," which should be celebrated by experts, technical users, and the sufficiently motivated.

Once the unwashed masses start coming in, the software and its interaction patterns pander to the lowest common denominator and the quality of the medium degrades.

tiborsaas · a month ago

"oh no, the peasants are using MY operating system, this can't be good"

tiborsaas commented on Authors hit by bad reviews on Goodreads before review copies are even circulated thebookseller.com/news/au... · Posted by u/healsdata

SkipperCat · 2 months ago

I'm probably going to get downvoted for this, but most if the Internet should not be anonymous. Anonymity has led to bots, awful cases of trolling and abuse. There should definitely be ways to communicated peer-to-peer anonymously, but posting on Social Media should not be one of them.

tiborsaas · 2 months ago

You've just introduced some new problems of scaling up identity theft and getting people otherwise uninterested in social media sell their account to spammers.

tiborsaas commented on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts fly.io/blog/youre-all-nut... · Posted by u/tabletcorry

pera · 3 months ago

It's fascinating how over the past year we have had almost daily posts like this one, yet from the outside everything looks exactly the same, isn't that very weird?

Why haven't we seen an explosion of new start-ups, products or features? Why do we still see hundreds of bug tickets on every issue tracking page? Have you noticed anything different on any changelog?

I invite tptacek, or any other chatbot enthusiast around, to publish project metrics and show some actual numbers.

tiborsaas · 3 months ago

Maybe because these companies are smaller and fly under the radar. They require less funding team size is small, probably bankrolled by the founders.

At least that's what I do and what I see among friends.

tiborsaas commented on The UI future is colourful and dimensional flarup.email/p/the-future... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

vijucat · 3 months ago

> which is really hard to defend

Can you please tell me your thoughts on how it is "hard to defend"?

My thoughts: How can designers criticize the use of Comic Sans? If users use it where it's connotations (childlike, casual) are appropriate, such as birthday parties, and love it, who are designers to comment on it? I find this indefensible, as if design sensibilities have a foundation very much like mathematics or physics and there is a clearly Universal litmus test of good design and bad design. There isn't. In fact, arbitrary mores of fashion such as "Comic Sans is uncool" are the very tell that design has foundations as strong as a piece of string in the wind. The disdain for Comic Sans reeks of elitism, where designers gatekeep "good taste" based on arbitrary conventions.

tiborsaas · 3 months ago

Nobody cares about using comic sans for a children's party, are you making a straw man argument?

> ...good design and bad design. There isn't.

It's called good taste. It's not science of course, good design is organic, it evolves, it converges. See carcinisation.

> The disdain for Comic Sans reeks of elitism, where designers gatekeep "good taste" based on arbitrary conventions.

Kinda true, get over it. Trust the people with good taste and if you want to do great, pay them to do this work for you.

But if you have an uncanny love affair with Comic Sans, no force in the Universe can stop you, have fun with it, you are free to ignore everybody.

tiborsaas commented on The UI future is colourful and dimensional flarup.email/p/the-future... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

ehecatl42 · 3 months ago

Comic Sans has an excellent, unironic, track record as an assistive tool for young kids struggling with dyslexia.

tiborsaas · 3 months ago

You can do better. This was the first Google result: https://dyslexiefont.com/en/

But there are plenty more. Why settle on the worst one?

tiborsaas commented on The UI future is colourful and dimensional flarup.email/p/the-future... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

vijucat · 3 months ago

Designers are so out of touch. That whole criticism of Comic Sans is one example. Slowly, I'm coming to the conclusion that designers should never be employed, only consulted on a per-project basis. If they sit around 8 hours a day, they end up changing something or the other to justify their existence. But human beings are not used to change at such a rapid cadence. Humans take time to settle into a design and establish patterns of usage.

tiborsaas · 3 months ago

Out of all the things, you brought up Comic Sans, which is really hard to defend other than ironic use cases and no, there's no proof either it helps dyslexia. Even if it does, there are also better alternatives in the accessibility space.

How many designer friends do you have? Do you know what they do daily? We know your preconception that regardless of company size and product they are just counting beans.

tiborsaas commented on Just Fucking Use React justfuckingusereact.com... · Posted by u/neoberg

turtlebits · 3 months ago

"sometimes, complexity is not a choice, it's a fucking requirement."

Complexity is never a requirement, and almost always self-inflicted.

tiborsaas · 3 months ago

This just means that complex projects exists. Complexity refers to the domain or business problem that needs to be solved and software complexity is a consequence of that. If you can anticipate a certain level of complexity by various factors, then you are better off with React/Vue/Whatever.js that makes your life easier.