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There are good Shorts. One problem is a flick of the thumb scrolls you down to the next, then the next, and many are crap. The uncertainty about whether you're going to see crap or…

"A unique, memorable icon expresses your app’s or game’s purpose and personality and helps people recognize it at a glance." "In iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, icons are square, and the s…

> "It actually expands notepad++ brand to mac" > "My intention was to expand your brand." Funny he thinks 'expanding' someone else's 'brand' is doing them a favour. 'I inflated you…

Seems a bit silly, though. More economical to paint (or draw, or cut-and-paste, or whatever) one original, scan it, then print many copies.

Does my computer get involved when person A sends something illicit to person B? As a normal user on the internet, no. That's between them, and the law only deals with them. With c…

Not to downplay my personal importance (=make an ostentatious display of humility, lol) I can work on art and projects to express the importance of other things in the world that a…

I would simply throttle those requests. Update comments once an hour. Or once a day. Not everything needs to be realtime.

What's that thing? Much harm is attributed to Tinder and I don't know how to boil it all down to something that would be a positive for jobseeking.

How large should Google have been allowed to get, before kicking it off the net?

A commons is indeed vulnerable to collapse though bad management. So it won't take care of itself, but needs deliberate effort and coordination to maintain. If we want to keep the …

Where are you seeing signs of a web replacer? Native apps? Or big social media platforms built on the web, that replace the need (for mose users) to 'touch' the base web layers dir…

Ted Nelson's critiques are good. Tech/Culture needs critics. Ted also tried being a culture-tech builder, and Xanadu just didn't work out. Despite several attempts, lots of resourc…

Forums should have separate layers for the object-level discussion, and meta-discussion. Then people can zoom into a peculiar grammatical detail that takes their fancy, but the mai…

Trademarks are there to protect consumers from dishonestly represented goods. If I buy some display tech marketed as "HDMI-compatible" but unlicensed, and it works with my other HD…

It's up there for me. But I liked his Schild's Ladder, which plays with some of the same ideas, even more.

Even better: physical buttons that feel like buttons. My lamp and my earphones have 'touch buttons'.

Facebook has user-run groups, so there are at least 3 levels of moderation/rules there: 1. National law 2. Facebook TOS 3. Group rules But the legislative power, to to speak, at th…

I am pro open web. I like the remix-ability of its tools. But walled gardens are easier to use, as they've invested in design, and designed for non-power-users. Open web enjoyers n…

The advent of commenting did mitigate the lonesomeness of independent blogging. Then social media sapped away much of that social energy, returning blogging to its natural state of…

A personal site is a lonely place. That's why blogs, after an initial burst of creative energy, languish. People nowadays seeking online to fulfil their social inclinations go else…

Find that good artist then either: 1. pay them to make art for the game you want to make, or 2. work with them for free to make the game they want to make. Good luck.

The ephemerality is the reverse to how it should be. A tweet from 15 years ago is probably still there. A blog's domain name might have expired, so its posts are lost. So bloggers …

There is no such thing as streaming without downloading. With DRM it's possible for platforms to offer streaming, which necessarily involves downloading, but without consumers reta…

NewPipe is a 3rd party Android YouTube client. You might like it, or an alternative. Online Services and their client interfaces are ideally separated. This removes a conflict of i…

I seldom upvote (and I can't downvote). Why bother? Can't see whether or not it's had any appreciable effect. Can't see the vote count. I already know other signals are used to det…