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Watching that thing in flames makes me think it must’ve been exceptionally dangerous to work on it in a metal shop. Having it catch fire inside would have been disastrous.

Is the `await` used in the last two examples a typo? They're not asynchronous are they?

In my experience almost every microwave oven has terrible usability. It’s as if the design problem is so simple and the “correct” design (two independent, labeled, mechanical dials for time and power)…

The problem with Svelte's computed properties is that it's not just an idiom, but a completely new language that happens to look like JS. It does things JS can't, and breaks very basic …

Maybe it's just the documentation that is lacking, but when I've played with Svelte, the API and template syntax feels like a hodgepodge of special cases. For example, what exactly does a ta…

Curious: why use Webpack rather than your own and IMHO much superior bundler, Rollup? I’m excited to try this more but I have mixed feelings about Svelte. The concept is brilliant but I feel like ther…

If you look at filmmaking, a remaster and remake are two clearly distinct things. A remaster is just a high quality rerelease, while a remake is a completely new production and interpretation of the s…

Aren't incandescent light bulbs pretty much the poster child of the problems with capitalism's expectations of infinite growth? It is possible to create incandescent light bulbs with extreme…

The source is a great read: https://distill.pub/2017/feature-visualization/ …

I don't think you're talking about measuring UX. You're talking about quantifying the business value of UX.

I don't know, that's like saying that the one way to measure quality of journalism is by number of clicks. Good UX should help conversion rate, but so might dark patterns, obnoxious popups, …

I guess it’s similar to code golfing. It can be interesting to try to get as far as possible with an extreme restriction.

Please don't use fascist propaganda slogans like this. It's not clever or funny.

Wow, that is some beautiful hardware. The cartridge, control panel, switches, wooden sides - such a nice esthetic. I wish more electronics went for that look.

It jumped out at me too as a very unnecessary comparison. It reads like “sexual abuse is an exaggerated problem”, to be honest.

The feature might be there, but if the design causes 99% of users to not use it or not be aware of it, it doesn’t matter.

I'm not going to say Redux-zero isn't useful, but if you're just calling some functions that update the state, how is it even related to Redux? Redux is all about reducers. "Redux&…

Not sure how likely they are to be confused, but there’s a highly regarded sampler called Octatrack. https://www.elektron.se/products/octatrack-mkii/ …

> Blurred Forms I expected this to be about input elements without focus…

Not sure I follow, scrolling and dragging are two completely different gestures? Overloading scroll to mean zoom is problematic, but that's not happening here. You need to click "deeper"…

It isn't really true that Svelte is just "vanilla" Javascript. For example, the compiler looks at the argument names of your computed properties to determine which data they depend on, …

How would multiple cursors be affected by this? I use a proportional typeface and multiple cursors for all sorts of things, I can't really see how these concepts are even related. As you say, use…

How does it deal with stereo mixes? In the keynote they casually mentioned that you might want to get two, but I couldn't tell if it was a joke or not.

I didn't know that. What are the specific security problems with Safari?

And any genuine recording can be plausibly denied.

I suppose Prettier should make it possible for a developer to reformat the code the way they prefer when they pull it, work on it, then format it back to what the rest of the team has agreed on before…

I wonder if might see UI fashion go full circle and come back to this style at some point. The flat style of the past 5 years came in reaction to the over-rendered skeuomorphic look that had been grow…

Many of these are fantastic, I could swear some of them used actual animation. For example http://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/kagero3e.html What causes the appearance of mov…

Also, almost every sentence is a new paragraph. It makes the article feel like a rambling stream of consciousness.

I like the spirit of this article. We don't really have a successful paradigm for how to design ambitious user interfaces for power user tools. But I'm not sure I agree with most of the exam…