Has this ever happened to you? You write a message with the help of AI and forget to delete the original line: “Here’s a revised version of your message…” Pro tip for AI users, using ChatGPT as example. Add the following to ChatGPT’s “custom instructions”: “Mark the introduction paragraph where you explain what you’ve done …
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I wanted to download youtube videos. So I got more acquainted with Apple’s user space scripting tools. Overall I’m pretty inspired by the clean UX of these tools. Of course, I guess all of these tools only work inside Apple’s walled garden, which is sad in terms of general population getting educated in general purpose …
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Note: I can attest this to be functional for me, but I’ve used an LLM to produce this. Your mileage may vary. Please check your particular details, particularly the call for checking temperature may vary. Many people have video files that no longer work on modern devices. You may have downloaded or perhaps made backups …
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When we talk about the UX – user experience – of an online service or product we’re not just talking about beautiful interfaces or smooth navigation. What happens when a user encounters a product, feels something about it – and what remains when they finally close the app or device? This is where honesty comes …
This is pretty exciting! You used to only be able to do this on single page apps. Examples The View Transition API lets you add transitions between views of a website. — Read on developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/view-transitions/ Deeper dive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43308907 https://jakearchibald.com/2024/view-transitions-handling-aspect-ratio-changes/
Inspiring post on the craftsmanship of UI design and building: One of the ways I like to do development is to build something, click around a ton, make tweaks, click around more, more tweaks, more clicks, etc., until I finally consider it done. The clicking around a ton is the important part. If it’s a …
In this post, we’re diving into two compelling open source projects, Joplin (task management) and Ocenaudio (audio editing), which are redefining user expectations and providing strong alternatives to proprietary software. These applications not only challenge the dominance of established players but also showcase a commitment to improving usability and functionality in ways that appeal to …
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It would be wonderful if such stories were more prevalent and lauded in the overall industry: it’s about how we end up affecting concrete lives. Human-computer interaction as a research field is all about this; seeing the others’ perspective. More context (HN link) leshokunin Disclaimer: I was a PM on Angry Birds. […] vvoyerNice, what’s …
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Public Service Announcement: YouTube links now include an SI source id at the end which is unique to your account if you share link on another non-Google platform. Be sure to delete everything from the “si=” onward or it will be easily traceable to your Gmail @OldRowSwig on X
In my work as coach, teacher, designer – I keep coming back to this question: How do I present all that I do such that it might make sense to others… that they might understand; it’s all about connecting to the other human’s perspective! However different software development as a discipline might seem from design …
Surrender Coronavirus has meant that I haven’t swam in months. It was warm today in Helsinki. So I decided to go to the beach. I took a few strokes, but didn’t really swim. I found myself watching the waves coming at me, feeling into what that was like. Feeling the forcefulness of the sea. Though …
I finally got sick and tired of all my windows laptops breaking physically one way or another. First there was ThinkPad Edge, then there was the ultrathin Sony Vaio (bought just before Sony sold the business and discontinued the thing). Developers, Linus Torvalds included, online seemed to agree that MacBooks are the best hardware on …
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Spend as much effort as possible in learning to use Qt’s Model View Delegate functionality. It can be a lot of work to wrap your head around, but once you get there, you can do very powerful things with it.
