| Name | Marco von Ballmoos |
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Published on in Design
The article The importance of having a design system by Reindeeraintreal (Reddit) shows the following UI elements from the gaming platform Steam.
The various UI elements of Steam
That looks pretty bad, right? There is no consistency at all.
However, the first comment is pretty astute: “Steam, being as successful as it is, makes me interpret this post as saying that having a design system is not important.”
Design’s not the only thing, that’s for sure. Market dominance definitely trumps design. But you could do your users a favor and lower the... [More]
Published on in Notes
Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.
Published on in Notes
Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.
Published on in Programming
The article Agile Projects Have Become Waterfall Projects With Sprints by Ben Hosking (ITNext) argues that a lot of projects using agile aren’t agile at all, but are “more like waterfall projects with upfront requirements, fixed deadlines, sprints and 2 weekly demos.”
Overall, I understand where the author is coming from, but I found the tone pretty overwhelmingly negative. I can only imagine what the author has seen to have put them in such a dark place. 😐
I thought that this was an interesting comment in the... [More]
Published on in Public Policy & Politics
Not only is Cloudflare getting opinionated about what kinds of site it deems worthy of hosting, but now the Internet Archive is also deciding which sites are worth remembering.
That is not either one of your jobs.
You each have one job.
You are not doing it.
Stop censoring knowledge and history and information.
Published on in Science & Nature
As I was reading the article Polio declared a disaster emergency in New York after more poliovirus found by Beth Mole (Ars Technica), the following citation caught my eye,
“Rockland County—which is notorious for generally low vaccination rates after battling a tenacious measles outbreak in 2019—has a polio vaccination rate of just 60 percent among children under the age of 2, who are recommended to have three polio vaccine doses.”
People are not vaccinating their children because they see the injections as dangerous.... [More]
Published on in Public Policy & Politics
I’ve read that a so-called special master has been appointed to oversee the dissemination of information from the files seized in the raid of Trump’s Mar-el-Lago resort. I’ve also read that this will significantly delay the release of information. I think it’s ok in the sense that I’m interested in justice being served for Trump as well as anyone else. That is, if the information were to be disseminated by an extremely unfriendly press and Twitterati, then it would be very likely that we would... [More]
Published on in Notes
Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.
Published on in Miscellaneous
The article Europe Commits Suicide-by-Sanctions by Ron Paul (Antiwar.com) contains a perfect example of the quality of reporting you get when someone reports on a country they know little about.
“According to the Swiss newspaper Blick, those who violate the 66 degree heating limit could face as many as three years in prison!”
The Blick is about as reliable as The New York Post: sometimes, but not nearly always. There is no prison sentence for heating your apartment.
He gets all wound up:
“Prison time for heating your... [More]”
Published on in Fun
So, Dave Levitan tweeted,
“Someone please tell me if I’m wrong, but I have the impression that the best climate models and projections didn’t really have “all the rivers are gonna dry up, like now-ish” in there”
The Rhine, the Yangtze, the Po by aprettyp (Reddit) is a screenshot of the tweet. The top response by whoareyoutoquestion is wholly informative,
“Except they did and do. “Unprecedented droughts” and “Increased cyclic extremes of weather” are two common things in climate change caused by global warming.... [More]”
Published on in Notes
Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.
Published on in Quotes
“My guess is that the indignities imposed on so many low-wage workers—the drug tests, the constant surveillance, being “reamed out” by managers—are part of what keeps wages low. If you’re made to feel unworthy enough, you may come to think that what you’re paid is what you are actually worth. It is hard to imagine any other function for workplace authoritarianism. Managers may truly believe that, without their unremitting efforts, all work would quickly grind to a halt. That is not... [More]”
Published on in Notes
Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.
Published on in Notes
Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.
Published on in Quotes
“We are cheating our children, handing them tawdry luxuries and addictive gadgets while we take away what’s left of the wealth, wonder and possibility of the pristine Earth.”
Published on in Notes
Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.
Published on in Programming
Some asked is there a js library that animates the text word by word like shown? by DemDavors (Reddit).
A bunch of people answered “just do it with CSS!” and one or two recommend using GSAP (Green Sock Animation Platform). I’d just heard about that library in the following instructive video and had had a chance to investigate how it works.
FLIP animations | HTTP 203 by Google Chrome Developers
I’d like to expand on the comments recommending to use the “rule of least power”. They are absolutely correct, but you have to consider the entire task:
Published on in Programming
I recently answered the question What features from other languages would you like to see in C#? by BatteriVolttas (Reddit)
I think Anchored Declarations and Qualified Anchored Declarations from Eiffel would be very useful.
I like the name “anchored” because you’re anchoring the type of one thing to another. Instead of using int throughout a class, you can just make e.g. a field named _id be an int and then make all other types (e.g. for the parameter passed to a method) refer to the anchor with like _id or typeof _id.... [More]
Published on in Quotes
“Irony [is] the song of a bird that has come to love its cage.”
Overheard in the excellent video essay,
Multiverses, Nihilism, and How it Feels to be Alive Right Now by Like Stories of Old (YouTube)
At 21:30,
“The point is to reflect on the way we generally regard the cosmos and the fundamental forces that are at play there. And to question that, which we so often deem to be the realistic or the rational view of our universe. Because when the void at the end of all things is no longer a given, when the nature of our cosmos is vastly more complicated than we assumed, the supposedly... [More]”
Published on in Quotes
“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
Published on in Technology & Engineering
Apple’s Calendar has gotten worse and worse in the last two or three operating-system releases.
I had three reminders/appointments this morning at 09:00. They all popped up five minutes before nine, as desired.
I told them all to go away for an hour.
They all popped up again, at nine. One of them popped up twice.
I then told them all to go away forever, in a fit of rage.
Now, I just changed the reminder for one of these appointments to “Alert at time of event”.
It promptly popped up at... [More]
Published on in Notes
Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.
Published on in Quotes
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our... [More]”
Published on in Movies
These are my notes to remember what I watched and kinda what I thought about it. I’ve recently transferred my reviews to IMDb and made the list of around 1600 ratings publicly available. I’ve included the individual ratings with my notes for each movie. These ratings are not absolutely comparable to each other—I rate the film on how well it suited me for the genre and my mood and. let’s be honest, level of intoxication. YMMV. Also, I make no attempt to avoid spoilers.
Published on in Notes
Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.
Published on in Quotes
“War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.”
Published on in Quotes
“Absolutely nothing should be sold for a profit if its absence could kill you. Any modern system where people still die from lack of these resources should be dismantled.”
Published on in Science & Nature
What’s the biggest source of CO2 in the world? I was with a friend who argued that it was personal passenger vehicles. I was pretty sure that industry and agriculture produced the lion’s share of CO2, but she was adamant. I thought it sounded like her source was conveniently placing the blame for a warming planet on individuals’ inability to conserve when I thought that our individual contributions, while not inconsequential, were not the place that we needed to start, necessarily.
When I had... [More]
Published on in Notes
Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.
Published on in Notes
Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.
