ptman
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- Flatness. UI controls need to be recognizable.
- Theming/styling. A button should look like button.
- Lack of menus. Discoverability is poor if you don’t have a list of things in an obvious place.
- Gestures. Lack of discoverability.
- Information density. I don’t care about huge margins and filler pictures. Content shouldn’t be crammed, but space should be used efficiently.
- Mobile first. Especially if mobile use is only a fraction of actual use. Or maybe even if it is the majority of users, but not majority of use (operations, hours).
- Simplicity. Make simple things simple, but hard things possible. Removing features can make your software useless.
1·1 year agoPaper bags are worse, except maybe for microplastics. But they take more resources to create, and aren’t as recyclable as good plastic bags. You can use a canvas bag, but that takes even more resources to create. So you have to use the same canvas bag for years
4·1 year agoSweden is a monarchy, they have a king, not a president. But in this case it seems to be the prime minister
9·1 year ago- Matrix is viable. There are https://view.matrix.org and soon https://archive.matrix.org/ for indexing by crawlers
- https://servers.joinmatrix.org/ isn’t quite the same as https://discord.com/servers. Joinmatrix lists matrix home servers, like gmail, hotmail, yahoo, … for email. But once you have an account on a home server, you can use the “explore” feature to browse rooms known to that server (or another that has public room directory). There is not central place to list all, since there is not single central matrix server. Same with lemmy. You need to use https://lemmyverse.net/communities
I’ve read some old DOS manual. And several Linux books back from the days when Linux came on CDs alongside books.
There are different kinds of documentation https://diataxis.fr/
Minimum, but it still doesn’t get below 23C in the winter
Everyone has a (changing) tattoo on their forehead telling how many deaths are caused by their overconsumption of the planet’s resources.
All environmental externalities are included in all prices. Also currency is manipulated to prevent overconsuming the planet’s resources
Extensible events and RBAC sound interesting, but they’re 1.9
syntax error (the colon after print)
Never say never. I used to be on macOS
“Piracy can’t be stealing if paying for it isn’t owning”
Tips are a way for service industry workers to avoid taxes. I wonder if there’s any reliable statistics on how many workers in the service industry report their tips accurately to the IRS
Run it on some free or cheap cloud instance https://paul.totterman.name/posts/free-clouds/
Element is running out of money. I think they would keep the old license if other commercial matrix-based projects would contribute developers or money.