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mwillis
·há 12 dias·discuss
I’d guess because Canadians often rely on American tech infrastructure by default, and current events are shining a light on the vulnerability inherent in that arrangement. It’s a line that speaks to a potential Canadian user base who doesn’t make a distinction among what’s tangled up in their web use.
mwillis
·mês passado·discuss
We’re in a transitional time. A lot of things will feel off until we figure out what “right” feels like. Critiques like this are correct, but correct only for as long as the circumstances stay as they are. Which they won’t.
mwillis
·há 4 meses·discuss
A six-week road trip sounds amazing. A six-week road trip with lots of interstate driving does not.
mwillis
·há 5 meses·discuss
maybe it’s just some quirk of how my fingers work, but when typing with two hands, I constantly get the letter “n” where I want a space. Itngetsnquitenfrustrating and it’s really annoying to go back and correct, because none of the intermediate words got autocorrected either. It seems like a) such an easy thing to prevent, and b) such an easy thing to detect and fix after the fact.

Second most egregious issue is how every space becomes a period when typing in the Safari url/search bar. I’m using it for search 90% of the time, and directly entering URLs 10%, but Apple must think those proportions are flipped.

Free the space!

Finally - could we have a simple gesture that toggles words between lowercase, first letter capital, and all caps? Highlight a word and swipe up or something? So much needless input to make a word capitalized.
mwillis
·há 5 meses·discuss
Why, in this given scenario, does the individual’s mandate to their company automatically trump the mandate given to them by an ethical society, or even their own moral code? Why is this position held up as infallible? The situation could easily be re-framed as “my corporate mandate is to grow revenue, but the larger mandate I have is to my own ethical truth.” Why are corporate desires allowed to get the “shrug, that’s just what I’m supposed to do” treatment?

If the answer is you lose your job and your means to provide for your family if you don’t put corporate desires first, then we’ve constructed the society we want already and no one should be complaining.
mwillis
·há 5 meses·discuss
I truly believe psychology is at the root of this. People start families when the optimism they feel about the future outweighs the pessimism. Even if this evaluation is done subconsciously.

At some point, in first-world society - averaging across different societies and social support systems, and considering the numbers in aggregate - we flipped. Pessimism about the future outweighs optimism. Downstream of that flip, the prevailing trend changed. Here we are.
mwillis
·há 6 meses·discuss
Fantastic technique and deep dive. I will say, I was hoping to see an improved implementation of the Cognition cube array as the payoff at the end. The whole thing reminded me of the blogger/designer who, years ago, showed YouTube how to render a better favicon by using subpixel color contrast, and then IIRC they implemented the improvement. Some detail here: https://web.archive.org/web/20110930003551/http://typophile....
mwillis
·há 6 meses·discuss
wildly cool, nice job!
mwillis
·há 6 meses·discuss
https://mwillis.com I recently updated layouts and UX but haven’t quite rolled out changes evenly across older content.
mwillis
·há 6 meses·discuss
reading is tougher though
mwillis
·há 7 meses·discuss
The “place” aspect of the process needs some refinement. On iOS, it triggers the page bump (and necessitates and extra click) because it’s aligned at the bottom of the page. Having the “place” action hover near the selected object could be an alternative. I really enjoy this pattern. Nice work.
mwillis
·há 7 meses·discuss
say more?
mwillis
·há 8 meses·discuss
A medal for finishing a marathon is not the same thing as a participation trophy.
mwillis
·há 8 meses·discuss
Always thought Wordle and similar computer games were just variants of Mastermind, forms of which go back many decades, if not further. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_(board_game)