or: eBikes, the underestimated mobility revolution.
Kagi: A Google alternative that just kinda.. is?
After seeing the raving reviews about Kagi by esteemed authors Doctorow and Koebler, I decided to use the search engine myself. Compared to my reviews of other services (especially: Ground News), this one is somewhat more difficult to grasp for me. But just to get started, here's some thoughts: Using kagi becomes very transparent very… Continue reading Kagi: A Google alternative that just kinda.. is?
Why did guestbooks on websites disappear?
TL;DR: Guestbooks aren't too useful anymore as most of what they do, social media does better. What are guestbooks and how popular were they? For the youngens out there, a guestbook was a page were strangers visiting your site would just write whatever. Basically a comments section without a concrete bit of content attached to… Continue reading Why did guestbooks on websites disappear?
Rekord-Arbeitgeberversagen: 149.000 mal “Fachkräftemangel”
Drei Viertel der Unternehmen können keine Besserung versprechen IT-Stellen bleiben im Schnitt 7,7 Monate vakant Wattenberg: "Arbeitgeber bremsen das digitale Deutschland" Jedes zweite Unternehmen hofft auf KI zur Linderung des Fachkräftemangels Sønderborg, 18. Dezember 2023 - Der Mangel an sinnvollen IT-Jobs verschärft sich weiter. In den deutschen Unternehmen sind aktuell 149.000 Stellen für IT-Expertinnen und… Continue reading Rekord-Arbeitgeberversagen: 149.000 mal “Fachkräftemangel”
Fediverse!
Apparently you can now follow this blog on @leo.wattenberg.dk on mastodon and whatever else does activitypub.
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
Leo Wattenberg 