Tag: UI

  • people work better with HTML, not markdown

    I like the idea of having your AI thingies creating one off HTML pages as output. For example, monitoring and management agents. Most services now have an MCP server that will give API access to observability, logs, etc. What if instead of emitting JSON, they (also) emitted an HTML page? 🔗 Using Claude Code: The…

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  • Aesthetic Computing Consider “ascetic computing”: Here’s what “ascetic computing” means to me: Doing without things that compromise my personal standards or morals. Learning to live Fearlessly in the face of Missing Out. Resisting the Endless Pursuit of Shiny Things. … The goal is to live a (computing) life of principle, purpose, and focus. … Nothing…

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  • Monday assorted links

    Shadow AI, here it comes. Stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself, stop…oh, forget it… – ”IDC research shows that unmanaged tech debt can consume 20 – 40% of development time, diverting resources away from innovation and modernization.” “warehouses of bananas.” Europe is under siege “Applets are officially, completely removed from Java 26, coming in March…

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  • In a UI, label things what they are, not your unique, product centric (often brand/marketing) name for it. 🔗 Your, My, My – Fighting Proper Noun Feature Names

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  • The Larry King

    The Larry King

    Desk and framing arrangement for that YouTube talking head look.

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  • UX Case Study: SubStack WIP – UI tricks.

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  • Cool native HTML elements you should already be using –

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  • On the Undesign of Apple Intelligence Features – Yeah, I like the results and utilities of the Writing Tools, but the the UI is clunky as fuck. Plus, they don’t have Shortcuts support. That would be really useful. // “Writing Tools on MacOS is the most obviously flawed of the Apple Intelligence features suffering from…

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  • Dark Mode: How Users Think About It and Issues to Avoid – A lot more on dark mode than you thought was possible to write about // “Aesthetic appeal and improved accessibility are the strongest arguments for supporting dark mode.”

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  • Let’s take \”enterprise\” out of the parking lot

    > Rather than build out your next Instagram or SnapChat knock-off, consider disrupting 30 years of clunky software with horrendous user interfaces. The office-drone masses will bless you for it. [Let’s take “enterprise” out of the parking lot](http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteenterprise/~3/3C0X6UX3cc8/enterprise-tech-boom-cool-to-be-boring)

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