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Counterargument: many good ideas are written off as bad ideas because they are hamstrung by shoddy implementation. The implementation is just as important as the idea. In the real …

Look at that subpixel antialiased text in 3.7. So, so far ahead of it's time.

I've always been curious whether choices in Mac OS X might have been (unintentionally) influenced by RISC OS. I believe there were a disproportionate number of Brits on the HI team…

KMP is brilliant and arguably the best way to write a cross platform app that has Android as a target. But what you can do with it on non-JVM platforms is a bit lacking. There are …

I've built and shipped some native-UI cross-platform apps to millions of devices, powered by a Go shared library. It works. It's fantastic to use the same language on client and se…

The root cause of this stuff, from experience, is that animations are hard to retro-fit after the fact. It's a lack of planning. The UI code needs to be structured with animation i…

Another issue: Paper was tied to your Dropbox account. From Dropbox's perspective, this sounds great. Accounts become more useful and valuable. The addressable market of a Dropbox …

I would also bet that 90% of Swift training data is UI code. And UI code quality tends to be technically pretty crummy/low-discipline. Your UI code doesn't need much consideration …

The micro-interactions and hotkeys in GIMP are just so poor though. For example, basic stuff like zoom in and zoom out are bound differently to literally any other app on any platf…

...although the logic in the article is slightly odd: 1. Discover complex native text rendering is hard 2. Render text in a low-level way, complain about having to (re)implement na…

Fun fact: This is how Apple used to do it too. Old versions of macOS / AppKit used to use WebKit to render rich text inside their native NSTextFields. Turns out text is hard :) And…

It baffles me a bit that people are working so hard to replace themselves with AI. It's such a high bar for the AI to hit, and takes the creativity away from the human. I have a pe…

Nitpick, but it bothers me: The human factors of their demo video don't stack up. Horizontal dragging with a mouse is actually really hard. Nobody's going to use it like that. Your…

Using the "system WebView" is not a positive on Linux. For some reason that always means WebKitGTK, which is crummy. Someone, anyone, please get CEF working with GTK4.

It was really interesting, like a third way of doing things that wasn't "windows" and wasn't "mac". The OS being on ROM made booting insanely fast. Like 2-3 seconds from cold start…

I would argue that WhatsApp's e2ee user experience is pretty decent, and didn't get worse when they introduced encryption. But then again, their technical model has always been "fa…

4K is perfect because you can scale it to 200% and still have a lot of screen real-estate. Personally, I'm highly allergic to fractional scaling. It's 200% or I'm not buying it!

Very happy to see a 4K display. Framework take note!

In UK highway terminology, you're "driving" in the bike lane if your vehicle enters it.

I'll be watching this project. Looking forward to a Golang declarative framework. My advice to the author: invest in rich multi-window support early on. It's easy not to, but you a…

I'd imagine it depends what kind of emissions you're measuring? Are we talking air quality or climate change? Two stroke engines are pretty terrible in terms of unburned hydrocarbo…

Perhaps this is naive, but I would imagine that farm equipment is a rounding error in terms of global emissions. Compare the number of tractors to the number of trucks... I would h…

Glad it works for you. It runs fine, but details become blurry as they get spread across pixels, I do UI design, so I find it important to see things in full fidelity (no pixel smu…

It just, just not enough real estate!

I really wish this had a 4K display option. As someone who dislikes fractional scaling. I'm clinging on to my older Thinkpad X1 because the 4K display is so good.