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29 days
A while ago I was reading about Wayland and this quote stuck with me:
A stated goal of Wayland is “every frame is perfect”.
And I think this is a goal we should all aspire to. Wayland is talking about the technical side of things (modern GPU stacks are very complex and Wayland is trying to take control back) but it could be applied to UI too.... -
4 months
Claude is an Electron App because we’ve lost native
In “Why is Claude an Electron App?” Drew Breunig wonders:
Claude spent $20k on an agent swarm implementing (kinda) a C-compiler in Rust, but desktop Claude is an Electron app.
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5 months
Podcast: На Маке нет никаких шкафов @ Думаем дальше
С Ильей Бирманом провожаем Алана Дая, вспоминая, в чём состоят достижения Мака, Джобса и ХИГа (но и Винду добрым словом тоже вспоминаем).
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6 months
It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
I was reading Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines from 1992 and found this nice illustration:
accompanied by explanation:
Fast forward to 2025. Apple releases macOS Tahoe. Main attraction? Adding unpleasant, distracting, illegible, messy, cluttered, confusing, frustrating icons (their words, not mine!) to every menu item:...
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