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@ -19,19 +19,22 @@ KDE
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KDE will always be hideously ugly, it's the one constant in the universe.
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Unix terminals
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Barely tolerable with graphical displays. The character grid must go, not only
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because variable pitch fonts are infinitely more pleasant to read.
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The only redeeming quality is how well these work over slow links.
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Pop-ups
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Anything that shows up and changes the consequences of the user's actions, if it
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doesn't appear as an _immediate result_ of the user doing something, is pure
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evil. Sadly, this is sometimes hard to avoid, or the cost is too high.
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Major culprits that make me want to hurt the computer: Firefox, Thunderbird.
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Unix terminals
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Barely tolerable with graphical displays. The character grid must go, not only
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because variable pitch fonts are infinitely more pleasant to read. See also:
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https://p.janouch.name/article-tui.html[So you want to make a TUI…]
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The only redeeming quality is how well these work over slow links.
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ASCII
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Outdated, made for teletypes. Unicode mostly just adds more complexity (and
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@ -41,7 +44,8 @@ I don't like, perhaps even banning certain characters where possible.
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Centralisation
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Try to build things so that they survive outages--resilient, robust, and even
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anti-fragile. Admittedly, this principle is hard for humans to follow.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragility[antifragile]. Admittedly, this
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principle is hard for humans to follow.
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Speaking of which, project Haven has no public mirrors yet. Not that it matters
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thus far... but eventually we should at least set up mirrorring to repo.or.cz,
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@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Haiku
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Pretty. Desktop-first. Just the window manager sucks, and C++ is no longer
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a reasonable choice for a high-level programming language, despite all the
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effort to improve it. It's the foundations that are rotten.
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effort to improve it--it's the foundations that are rotten.
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VIM
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@ -57,10 +57,9 @@ Vimperator/Pentadactyl/qutebrowser
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// TODO: Include a screenshot.
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Vimperator/Pentadactyl has created a new standard in web browser usability.
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The most important innovations being the addition of modality to the web browser
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and the "follow link" feature, which is what I feel all mouse-first UIs
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deserve.
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Vimperator/Pentadactyl created a new standard in web browser usability. The
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most important innovations being the addition of modality to the web browser and
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the "follow link" feature, which is what I feel all mouse-first UIs deserve.
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Too bad it can no longer work in current versions of Firefox as they cut off
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all support for XUL addons. The good times are already behind us. I certainly
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@ -74,16 +73,17 @@ SourceHut
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https://sourcehut.org/
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Drew might be an opinionated asshole but that's not necessarily a bad quality.
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His creations are compatible with my values.
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Drew might be an opinionated asshole but that's not necessarily a bad quality,
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especially if it helps with diversity. His creations are compatible with my
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values.
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WikiWikiWeb
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http://wiki.c2.com/
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An interesting knowledge base. Simple formatting, automatic links. I've
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borrowed the general concept for this very collection of texts (I don't want
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to say "wiki" since no one else can edit).
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borrowed the general concept for this very wiki (yes, technically you can send
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in pull requests).
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It's a shame that it's been frozen in time.
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@ -91,10 +91,12 @@ AsciiDoc
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I despise Markdown for its choices, and I don't want to suffer while writing.
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Granted, I can see some faults in AsciiDoc as well, notably with how hard it is
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to parse and process, but I haven't found anything better yet. One day I might
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to parse and process, but I haven't found anything better yet, and
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standardisation seems to be finally
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https://groups.google.com/g/asciidoc/c/EKx-Hfx-nMM[on the way]. One day I might
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create a processor for a slightly modified subset of it. Until then,
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libasciidoc is what I'll be using for all markup, and I'm immensely thankful to
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its authors for their work.
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https://github.com/bytesparadise/libasciidoc[libasciidoc] is what I'll be using
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for all markup, and I'm immensely thankful to its authors for their work.
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Plan 9, Go
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@ -110,4 +112,6 @@ a new way of controlling the computer.
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Smalltalk
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The application is a live system, powered by a simple programming language.
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You can change anything you want, and see the results instantly.
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You can change anything you want, and see the results instantly. See also the
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Self programming language, for which my friend is trying to make an
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https://github.com/Bystroushaak/tinySelf[alternative implementation].
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@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ I'm not trying to create anything novel but to achieve something
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.Related articles:
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- https://lobste.rs/s/ksbcw5/12_principles_for_diverging_desktop +
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While I don't fully agree with the vision, we have similar concerns.
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While I don't fully agree with (or care about) the vision,
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we have similar concerns.
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Further reading
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.ulist .ulist { margin: 0; }
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.ulist ul { margin: 0; }
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.ulist li p { margin: 0; }
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.imageblock img { max-width: 100%; }
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.paragraph svg { max-width: 100%; }
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#links, #footer { font-size: small; color: gray; }
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</style>
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