@ernie.tedium.co Just out of curiosity, what was the “fa” link you created? Or how did it forward to Google News? Was it something on the localhost?
Marcin Wichary
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he+him / Writing about software craft and quality: unsung.aresluna.org / Wrote a book about the history of keyboards: shifthappens.site / Designer / Typographer / Occasional speaker / Chicagoan in training
I really, really love Game Changer – it’s a fun game show where every episode is a different game. I don’t generally care for game shows, but this is so creative, so filled with great details, and so… warm? thoughtful? inclusive? It’s just good energy all around, and also laugh-out-loud funny.
Sam Says | Game Changer [Full Episode]
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I wrote about one of my favourite small big invisible interactions, and a strange design inspiration that stuck with me all the way since the 1990s: unsung.aresluna.org/unsung-heroe...
Unsung Heroes: Repeat in Excel 97 – Unsung
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Minesweeper on Apple Lisa! That’s pretty cool, just because Lisa had practically zero third-party sofware, and I think absolutely zero games. youtu.be/0SnadQGIZtI?...
Throwback to the Figma user who said “I will give you a million dollars if you build X” (I forgot what it was. Links?) and then he actually sent us a million dollars… sort of.
It’s been a fun week at Unsung. First, I revealed my typographical Medium secret that I never admitted to in over 10 years: unsung.aresluna.org/my-one-1-med...
My one (1) Medium secret – Unsung
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@wdeb.bsky.social Quick question: Is “Product Design Psychology” written by AI? It *feels* like it, but I don’t see any disclosure.
Today at the Old Joliet Prison, I found what seems like a pretty important molly guard.
It I were to review some video playback interfaces on Apple TV, which ones are interesting? (Good or bad.) So far I have native, YouTube, HBO Max, and Netflix.
there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4w agowhat a fucking asshole
I know software updates can be exhausting these days. On top of regular weariness of things changing, there’s stuff like Liquid Glass, or thoughtless AI integrations. So, I’m curious: What is the recent software update, anywhere, that made you happy?
I have recently learned of this great page, which is a good summary of “things we wish we’d done differently in CSS”… wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistak... …but it only covers low-level stuff. I wonder whether anyone wrote (or gave a talk) about more high level CSS criticism?
Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS - CSS Working Group Wiki
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I just posted my keyboard collection online, in case that’s of interest to anyone! aresluna.org/my-keyboard-...
My keyboard collection
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While working on something else, I accidentally created the best Apple laptop ever.
The best four “architect” plaques from buildings I found in Germany.
@arestelle.bsky.social Sorry to bother you, I saw this mention, and I’m the author of the piece. If you wouldn’t mind sharing what computer/browser you were using, that would help me! It definitely shouldn’t be getting slower over time. Thanks! bsky.app/profile/ares...
arestelle@arestelle.bsky.social · 2mo agoInteresting, and ironically, whatever’s going on on that page, it bogged my whole phone down gradually, causing some of the same problems it talks about, until it crashed my browser.
Here’s a new, super-interactive essay I wrote about making interactions really great for repeated use, motor memory, and so on. I just… love this kind of stuff? I don’t know. My hope is that you’ll fall in love with this, too. *a big screen very, very recommended* aresluna.org/show-your-ha...
Show your hands honor for the strange power they bring you
On designing finger-friendly interactions
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Could I possibly nerd-snipe anyone into polishing something like this non-modal update flow into an official UI for Sparkle? weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2026/04/28/u...
Oh, damn! Counting down to my 1,000 scans and uploads on Internet Archive! archive.org/details/wich...
Did I wake up thinking I’m going to write a mini sequel to my decade-old essay about the difficulties with font sizing and aligning? Not really. But turns out it’s so easy to get me going on all that with even a tiny gesture toward a hint of a question. unsung.aresluna.org/the-trouble-...
The trouble with font previews – Unsung
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It’s weird when you realize plugs and sockets used to be so huge you could just label individual pins.
