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I-beam UX considerations
The I-beam has apparently largely been unchanged since the beginning of time*. I need to change it because it clashes with custom [ and ] cursors I need for my app (an audio editor), making it difficult to tell which cursor is being shown. This answer on StackExchange indicates that it may historically have arisen… Continue reading I-beam UX considerations
Ground News: Swing and a miss | Review
Ground News has been sold to me as nothing less than the solution to all problems readers face with journalism. The idea is that all media is biased, and so the only way to get to the Truth™ and start to Think Freely™ is by comparing left-wing and right-wing news sources. They also try to… Continue reading Ground News: Swing and a miss | Review
A patient named Civilization
Description The patient is a global meta-organism comprised of several billion homo sapiens sapiens. The patient is several thousand years old since its inception and several decades old in its current form; a precise age cannot be established as the current form fluidly emerged out of previous forms. The patient possesses several meta-organs which may… Continue reading A patient named Civilization
10 Implications
Asbestos implies less effective and more dangerous asbetteros and asgoodos. Netherlands imply the existence of a mountainous Upperlands. Progress implies a place where nothing ever moves: Congress. Real Time Attack implies Fake Space Defense where you place your battleships on imaginary coordinates. North- and South Korea implies a hidden West and East Korea in the… Continue reading 10 Implications
Don’t use Ellipses in menu items; the HIG are out of date
I'm going to assert that the human interface guidelines on this subject are outdated. For this, I need to go into some depth first. If you're just interested in when to use it, I make my recommendation at the bottom. The historyThe problemsWhen to use ellipses today? The history This is an ancient convention among… Continue reading Don’t use Ellipses in menu items; the HIG are out of date
Medienhäuser, eure Online-Werbung!
Kurze Frage: Sieht das hier nach Werbung aus, die einem seriösen Medienhaus würdig ist? Natürlich nicht. Dieser Quatsch kommt von Werbenetzwerken, die behaupten, sie könnten "Native Advertising" betreiben, aber tatsächlich ist deren "Native Advertising" eher ein wilder Mix aus Betrügern und dummen Inhalten. Die Werbungen im DetailRAID: Sexy LegendsSchwindel mit SchwindlernGeraune mit VersicherungenAlufolie um Kopf… Continue reading Medienhäuser, eure Online-Werbung!
The morning after
good morningman last night was crazy Oh? What happened? so, i was with my coworkers partyinghaving just released musiGANy 3 That's your AI music generator thingy, right? yeahand you know how it goes the company pays for all of the drinksso I'm gonna use all of the drinks Of course. and well first we just… Continue reading The morning after
No more twitter
FYI: Following my other post, I have now deleted my twitter account. I don't think I'll return even in a post-musk world; I no longer need it. https://leo.wattenberg.dk/2022/11/02/sunsetting-social-media-and-the-dawn-of-group-chats/
Our Piracy Policy
This piracy policy is a shackling agreement between the collection of atoms currently receiving photons from a computer ("you") and Piracy, a non-liable company ("company", "we"). Information Collection and Use For a better experience when plundering, we may require you to disclose personally identifiable information, such as Name, cargo, net worth, credit score and IP… Continue reading Our Piracy Policy
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